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The provision of systems to support and promote innovation has become a significant concern for New Product Development (NPD) processes as they try to cope with the rapid rate of technology development, change of customer’s needs, and shortened product life cycles. Companies such as Analog Devices Inc. (ADI) see the creation of an environment that encourages knowledge to be created, stored, shared and applied for the benefit of the organization and its customers as a key strategic activity. Despite the fact that such initiatives have been widely reported in the business press, the role of IT systems to support innovation in new product development is not well understood. This paper describes one such in initiative — as it was executed in practice in Analog Device’s NPD organization in Ireland. The work is presented in the context of current research in Knowledge Management Systems (KMS). The structure of the paper is set out in Table 1.
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Donnellan, B. (2004). IT Systems to Support Innovation. In: Fitzgerald, B., Wynn, E. (eds) IT Innovation for Adaptability and Competitiveness. TDIT 2004. IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, vol 141. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-8000-X_5
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