Integrating Knowledge Management Process inside New Product Development Phase: The Network Model

摘要

New Product Development, is interested in themanagement and discipline involved in thedevelopment of new product in some firms,which based on their experience ofinvolvement in the process, after applying thenetwork model the accumulation of knowledgeand application of this knowledge is what todistinguish innovative firms from their lesssuccessful counterparts. One of themotivations of this large interest is justified bythe fact that today successful new products areone of the main sources of competitiveadvantage for manufacturing companies.This paper suggests guidelines which describenecessary tools and methods to identify, andmanage the development of collaborativeaccumulation of knowledge networks,organization that apply this methods are moreefficient and more innovative than those thatdo not.