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2010 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
An Innovative Framework Supporting SME Networks for Complex Product Manufacturing
Authors : Luis Maia Carneiro, Ricardo Almeida, Américo Lopes Azevedo, Timo Kankaanpaa, A. H. M. Shamsuzzoha
Published in: Collaborative Networks for a Sustainable World
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Current market dynamics require European SME’s to focus on complex products manufacturing and to build non-hierarchical business networks, to assure competitiveness and sustainability. Such trend demands appropriate methods for network formation and management, including reference collaboration processes and supporting ICT tools. This paper presents a framework to support SME’s in the creation and management of non-hierarchical networks designed and developed within the European RTD project Net-Challenge. This framework includes methodologies, processes and ICT decision support tools aiming at the efficient creation and management of these networks assuring quick response times and competitive and differentiated offerings.