One of industrial design case to share tacit knowledge

Abstract

The objective of this research is to study the sharing of tacit knowledge, especially, in industrial design development teams. Nowadays, in-house design teams have to be more productive and efficient than they were previously even if inexperienced designers are working on the project. An important challenge in industrial design is to determine a suitable solution or compromise when many factors are involved. We tried to list the important factors involved in finalizing a design and shared these factors with an industrial design team. Experienced and inexperienced designers were made to assign AHP (analytic hierarchy process) scores based on this list according to their personal understanding. First product was not enough same score of AHP, but three times more closed, it is assumed the more and more shared tacit knowledge, with this process. © 2011 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.