From Embedded Knowledge to Embodied Knowledge: New Product Development as Knowledge Management

Abstract

Because new product development (NPD) teams are engaged in knowledge creation, NPD management should emphasize cognitive team processes rather than purely social processes. Using the notions of tacit knowledge and distributed cognition as a basis, the authors propose that the T-shaped skills, shared mental models, and NPD routines of team members, as well as the A-shaped skills of the team leader, are key design variables when creating NPD teams. The authors propose that trust in team orientation, trust in technical competence, information redundancy, and rich personal interaction are important process variables for the effective and efficient creation of new knowledge.

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Ravindranath Madhavan, Rajiv Grover (1998). From Embedded Knowledge to Embodied Knowledge: New Product Development as Knowledge Management. Journal of Marketing. https://doi.org/10.1177/002224299806200401

@article{ravindranath1998from,
  title  = {From Embedded Knowledge to Embodied Knowledge: New Product Development as Knowledge Management},
  author = {Madhavan, Ravindranath and Grover, Rajiv},
  year   = {1998},
  journal = {Journal of Marketing},
  doi    = {10.1177/002224299806200401}
}

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