Research on Team Knowledge Creation Support for Product Development

In knowledge economy, new product development becomes a key factor of corporation’s survival and development. Corporations generally use teams to develop new product. Team knowledge creation for product development is a complicated process. However, now effective management method is lack for team knowledge creation. In order to solve a series of problems encountered in team knowledge creation, we design team knowledge creation support system (TKCSS) to support the whole process of team knowledge creation. TKCSS includes four main functions which are task-oriented recording of team creation knowledge, creative idea recognition based on information retrieval, idea selection by three phases and visualization of team knowledge.