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RESEARCH PRODUCT
Groupware Support for Requirements Management in New Product Development
Timo KäköläAhti Salosubject
Requirements managementDecision support systemCollaborative softwareKnowledge managementProcess managementbusiness.industrymedia_common.quotation_subjectComputer Science ApplicationsComputational Theory and MathematicsOrganizational learningNew product developmentQuality (business)BusinessProduct (category theory)Computer-mediated communicationInformation Systemsmedia_commondescription
Large high-technology companies operate in fiercely competitive international markets. To succeed, they need to shorten the cycle time of new product development (NPD) while improving product quality and maintaining or reducing the total resources required. Their abilities to meet these business goals depend on how extensively and effectively they collect, analyze, and utilize requirements in their product development. Creating and sharing such knowledge is complicated partly because the NPD activities of large companies are geographically distributed. Groupware technologies allow knowledge to be created and shared more effectively. Thus, they hold considerable potential as means of meeting the goals. Yet, little theory-based guidance is available to help design groupware-based requirements management systems (RMS) for large geographically distributed organizations. In this article, we draw on existing literature and experiences from large-scale distributed industrial development projects at Nokia to star...
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005-01-01 | Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce |