A Multi-Actor Approach to Conflict and Conflict Management in Cross-Functional Collaborative New Product Development: Case Studies within a Technology Firm

The purpose of New Product Development (NPD) is addressing disequilibria in the market place through identification, development and deployment of suitable solutions as products, services or solutions. Teamwork, cross-functional collaboration, and conflict management in NPD are often described as leading factors in addressing such change and...

Fostering the reuse of knowledge in project based organizations

In the contemporary business world, more and more organizations especially in the engineering domain structure their working processes around projects. These organizations are called project-based-organizations (PBOs) and have established distinct work processes to successfully execute the projects that they undertake. The working processes in...

Improving the Efficiency of Collaboration in Philips Consumer Lifestyle

The thesis will contribute to the SMART VORTEX Project. The goal of the research is to improve the efficiency of decision making among the engineers in PCL. The main research question is "how can we design a process to improve the efficiency of collaboration among the engineers in PCL". To achieve this goal of the research, there are four...

Cross-project learing: Desiging a lessons learned process from a technological, organizational and social perspective

Project-based organizations (PBO) can be seen as a dominant organizational form in the engineering domain. These organizations are structured around projects, and in each project new knowledge is created that can be of value to other projects. These organizations therefore strive for cross-project learning: using the valuable knowledge created...