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This paper develops a perspective to modeling patterned technological information flow processes by drawing on concepts from organizational learning and knowledge creation of high technology enterprises. In such a perspective, humans and their interaction in a development team and in an industry’s ‘invisible college’ are modeled as absorbers and users of technological knowledge. The planning behavior of users is specified in terms of design patterns. A hierarchical multilevel pattern flow and repository model is described. Modes for cooperative technology project work in a case of telecommunication industry domain are examined. Questions regarding the relationship between technological knowledge creation and organization performance are studied.
Thus, this study can be seen as an attemp to map the mechanisms and structures governing technological knowledge utilization and creation within high technology industries.
The results indicate that there are complex relationships between technological knowledge creation and utilization in development tasks and corporate performance. It is shown, moreover, that the current knowledge base can also inhibit corporate development and degrade performance, if not managed dynamically.
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Kyttänen, K. (1997). Patterned Model for Technology Development. In: Wojtkowski, W.G., Wojtkowski, W., Wrycza, S., Zupančič, J. (eds) Systems Development Methods for the Next Century. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5915-3_45
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