Paper Info
Title
Communication Media for Supporting Distributed Engineering Design
Abstract
This paper looks at the communication media and organisational change requirements to support teamwork in a virtual organisation. A large engineering design organisation faced problems of coordinating concurrent engineering activity and geographical distribution. These problems were identified in detail, and the requirement for the design of an integrated communication support system was specified. Our analysis specifically related organisational requirements to existing media and technologies, and led to the specification and implementation of a cooperative design tool, utilising groupware. Issues of changing organisational culture and evaluation of the prototype are discussed, and the generalisation to other virtual organisations is considered.
Year
DOI
Venue
1999
10.1109/HICSS.1999.772711
Systems Sciences, 1999. HICSS-32. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Hawaii International Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
groupware,distributed processing,cad,management of change,engineering design,concurrent engineering,organisational culture
Teamwork,Change management,Concurrent engineering,Collaborative software,Computer science,Support system,Organizational culture,Knowledge management,Design tool,Engineering design process
Conference
Volume
ISBN
Citations 
Track1
0-7695-0001-3
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.40
4
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
John G. Gammack15110.79
Simpson Poon224524.86