How much knowledge management is hidden in design methods?

Abstract

The focus of this paper is to provide a beneficial insight into knowledge-management-specific analysis of the design activities involved in design methods. Therefore the objective is to present an approach that outlines how knowledge-management-specific sections of a design method can be identified by means of the modeling language KMDL. This paper is based on the ongoing research results of a product-development-specific knowledge-management approach for SME, and serves as a continuation of research into the influence of information flows and knowledge transformations for design activities.