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2013 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Know-How Identification, Scoring, and Classifying in Product Development Processes
Authors : Mathias Lojewski, Christoph Bärmann, Frank Mantwill
Published in: Smart Product Engineering
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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The following paper describes the development of a method for identifying, scoring and classifying captive process know-how in German enterprises of the automobile industry. Object of study will be the product development process. An initial point is described, in order to illustrate the results of an empirical analysis that lead to the necessity of protecting captive process know-how methodology.
After decomposing the selected product development processes (PDP) into reasonable steps, a special scoring system is used. Subsequently, the process dependencies between each other are being analyzed using multidimensional scaling. Within these steps the criticality of each process part concerning know-how protection is being scored. Using the method of scenario planning it is feasible to draw different possibilities of global cooperative partnerships in the future. These scenarios are the basis for classifying the identified process know-how for utilization in future cooperations.