The rise of social product development. (1st January 2012)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bertoni, Marco; Larsson, Andreas; Ericson, Åsa; Chirumalla, Koteshwar; Larsson, Tobias; Isaksson, Ola; Randall, Dave
• Is Part Of: International journal of networking and virtual organisations. Volume 11:Number 2(2012)
• Page Start: 188
• Page End: 207
• Publication Date: 2012-01-01
• Subjects: social product development -- social software -- engineering knowledge management -- virtual organisation -- Engineering 2.0 -- lightweight knowledge sharing -- remixable platforms; Computer networks -- Periodicals; Information networks -- Periodicals; Virtual corporations -- Periodicals; Electronic commerce -- Periodicals; Management information systems -- Periodicals; Management -- Data processing -- Periodicals; 004.65
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1470-9503

Abstract

The aim of the paper is to discuss the rising potential of social software to increase the knowledge management capabilities of virtual product development teams. It presents six fundamental transitions, elaborated from the empirical findings, which justify the rise of a more bottom-up, social creation and sharing of engineering knowledge in the virtual organisation. The study suggests that traditional engineering knowledge management approaches alone are not sufficient to support development activities in the virtual organisation, and that such teams display an increasing demand for social, comparatively lightweight and remixable platforms for bottom-up, social creation and sharing of knowledge.