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Title:	Knowledge management in new product development (NPD)
Author:	Mancinelli, Luca Maria
View Online:	njit-etd2018-009 (121 pages ~ 2.0 MB pdf)
Department:	Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Degree:	Master of Science
Program:	Engineering Management
Document Type:	Thesis
Advisory Committee:	Abdel-Malek, Layek (Committee co-chair) Bladikas, Athanassios K. (Committee member) Dormio, Alberto Ivo (Committee co-chair)
Date:	2018-05
Keywords:	New product development Knowledge management Work systems Organizational design
Availability:	Unrestricted
Abstract:	This thesis analyses features that, in New Product Development process (NPD), foster knowledge, and their contribution to the creation and application of knowledge with the aim of increasing both global performance and organizational effectiveness. Since knowledge is becoming more important to achieve competitive advantage, companies have already started to focus on their ability to generate new competencies and create new opportunities for producing new knowledge. One of the issues compelling knowledge management understands what aspects of the organization's work system and organizational design affect its ability to acquire, create and apply knowledge. In fact, the way that workers are organized and managed determine the success of NPD organizations. In this work, topics such as Knowledge Management and New Product Development are addressed. Furthermore, the study focuses on several models and frameworks of knowledge management, extracted from the existing literature, provides analyses of such models, and, based on them, proposes an additional framework.