Integrating Knowledge Management Process inside New Product Development Phase: The Network Model

New product development, is interested in the management and discipline involved in the development of new product in some firms, which based on their experience of involvement in the process, after applying the network model the accumulation of knowledge and application of this knowledge is what to distinguish innovative firms from their less successful counterparts. One of the motivations of this large interest is justified by the fact that today successful new products are one of the main sources of competitive advantage for manufacturing companies. This paper suggests guidelines which describe necessary tools and methods to identify, and manage the development of collaborative accumulation of knowledge networks, organization that apply this methods are more efficient and more innovative than those that do not.