Facilitating Product Development with the Help of Knowledge Management: the McKnow Platform

摘要

Product designers and other professionals spend a large part of their time in search of previously gained information and knowledge within and outside company borders. When unable to find what they are looking for, these professionals often resort to reinvention of the wheel. This paper introduces the McKnow platform, a framework on which algorithms are developed that support a quantified approach to knowledge management. Key aspects of these algorithms are automation and user-orientation. Several offered functionalities are described, as well as conclusions from their experimental evaluation.