Knowledge Oriented Process Portal for Continually Improving NPD

Business process management integrated with new product development (NPD) provides practices to help companies to improve their competitiveness. However, few companies know the benefits of these practices and few have the culture of systematically sharing knowledge about these practices to continually improve their NPD. In order to encourage companies to use process management with systematic sharing of knowledge, this paper proposes the development of a knowledge oriented process portal. This portal comprises information related to generic NPD reference models and its continual renewal by using the body of knowledge (BOK), made available by a community of practice (CoP).

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