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Actors’ networks management for design co-ordination

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In a worldwide context of collaborative development of new products and/or services, companies have to control the design process to increase design performance. Formal and informal networks of actors are activated during the very first phases of product development projects in order to define the company’s partners in a more efficient way. Our goal is to study relationships between co-design projects and networks of partners in order to help project managers in setting up design teams. This leads to the identification of several drivers which influence the actors’ network use and leading. Drivers such as project organisational structure, concurrent engineering techniques, groupware-like and knowledge-based systems support and enhance such networks. We will base our experimental issues on an industrial case study from energy production sector. This industrial case explores the structure and the management of actors’ networks.

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  1. ESTIA, Technopole Izarbel, 64210, Bidart, France

    L. Serna, C. Merlo & S. Minel

  2. Tecnologico de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico

    L. Serna

  3. IMS/LAPS Laboratory, Bordeaux University, Talence, France

    C. Merlo & M. Zolghadri

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Serna, L., Merlo, C., Zolghadri, M. et al. Actors’ networks management for design co-ordination. Int J Interact Des Manuf 5, 67–71 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12008-010-0115-3

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