Knowledge Management in Collaborative Product Design-An Activity Theory Perspective

Abstract

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 9.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Collaborative product design is nowadays a trend of advanced manufacturing technology. Collaborative product design is a knowledge-intensive activity; knowledge management in collaborative product design has been focused.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Existing literatues maily focus on knowledge management systems in collaborative design, other aspects of design activity is rarely paid attention to. The framework of activity system interaction is applied to design business scenario analysis. Furthermore, knowledge management in collaborative product design is analyzed from six perspectives, which are subject, object, community, tools, rules and division of labor, of Activity Theory. And suggestions for promoting knowledge sharing and transformation are proposed to imporve knowledge management in collaborative product design. </span

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“…This industry is knowledge based and driven by high levels of technology and innovation. Therefore, there is an increasing demand on telecommunications organisations to further invest in knowledge-based resources and capabilities as a means of improving performance (Dzunic, Boljanovic & Subotic 2012;Liao & Luo 2012;Murmann 2003;Sedziuviene & Vveinhardt 2010). There is some level of looseness (informality) in the competition that exists in the industry.…”