COMPETENCE MANAGEMENT BY INFORMATICS IN RESEARCH-AND-DEVELOPMENT - THE CORPORATE LEVEL

Resources of deep competence available in all fields required by the n ew product development process (NPD) demanded monodisciplinary groups of specialists acting as living systems. Group members, being in an ev eryday face-to-face contact and using the same terminology in an atmos phere of common problem solving, can create the core competence necess ary for corporate success. The usual ways to assign specialists of dif ferent professions in interdisciplinary project teams endanger this by removing the individual from the source of competence, Use of the Res ource Box model for information structuring with full-media communicat ion enables establishment of virtual teams for project work, Then the team members can provide the total knowledge of the competence group w ithout leaving it, The structure of operative Resource Boxes as a basi s combined with supporting Resource Boxes and Decision Boxes can build a network organization, It relies on a communication system in three levels providing valuable information of high quality, This organizati on concept is based on deep studies for several years of a high-tech S wedish product development organization.