Knowledge Integration in Distributed Product Development

Knowledge Integration in Product Development Projects

Knowledge integration with customers in collaborative product development

Driven by rapid technological developments, greater customer expectations, and increased product complexity, product development processes increasingly rely on the integration of dispersed specialist knowledge. Consequently, many industrial firms are changing the way they approach product development. Product development increasingly relies on knowledge integration across firm boundaries. Custo...

Knowledge integration with customers in collaborative product development projects

Purpose This paper addresses the need for managerial and organizational approaches to knowledge integration with customers in collaborative product development projects. The purpose is to identify the roles of customers in terms of the customer's knowledge contribution and timing of customer collaboration in the product development process. Design/methodology/approach This study is based on a m...

Overlapping in Distributed Product Development

Market and technology changes have brought about new characteristics of product development. One of the most significant changes from the traditional to the new paradigm is the change from sequential and collocated product development process to overlapped and distributed process. This paper explores the appropriate overlapping policy in distributed product development. Firstly we developed a s...

Organising new product development: Knowledge hollowing-out and knowledge integration The Fiat Auto case

The paper analyses the organization of the new product development process at FIAT from a resource-based perspective. The focus is on organizational resources for integrating dispersed specialist knowledge required in the development of complex products. The analysis shows how the application of a resource-based perspective is able to uncover negative long-term effects of outsourcing on the kno...