Supporting virtual teamwork in Collaborative Product Development

摘要: The increasing product complexity and the continuous need of improving quality services force companies to join into distributed extended networks. Collaborative development triggers research toward new methods tools manage virtual teamwork reduce time market. In this context, paper proposes a novel approach supporting co-design platform interrelations across organisations. Experimentations four design chains show improvements in communication, information sharing, knowledge distribution, saving easiness team management. They demonstrate that collaborative can be usefully enhanced only if procedures are designed for specific needs network.