Model for Knowledge Oriented Configuration Management
Date Issued
2006
Date
2006
Author(s)
Wang, Hsin-Tzu
DOI
zh-TW
Abstract
Configuration management (hereafter as CM) is an interactive management discipline merging technical and administrative direction system together, and applied over the life cycle of a product or project. During each phase such as conception/planning, definition/design, product/build, distribution/delivery, operation/maintenance and disposal/removal, through CM process, project manager can ensure the product performing the functional and physical requirements as intended despite the complexity of organization interfaces, engineering changes or dynamic circumstances. By means of the activities of configuration identification, configuration control, configuration status accounting and configuration audit, a high level of confidence in the product information is established.
However, some deviations to execution effectiveness of CM may occur due to the causes of the existing hierarchic organization and culture. For example, the CM processes may lead to a misunderstanding of “document management” or ossified regime. Although the CM can establish a systematized process to manage project changes, each individual change event is usually isolated and dealt with independently. The similar detrimental changes still occur frequently and repeatedly. To explore the problem, it is found that the whole organization and regime lack mechanism of lesson learnt and self-education. Data and information are set up, stored and adopted, but are either unlikely converted into personal knowledge completely, or unlikely create more valuable knowledge for organization then utilized by individual. This kind of situation will definitely reduce the comprehensive efficiency of CM.
The 21st century is the era taking knowledge as main shaft. Purpose of the knowledge management (KM) is to share and re-utilize the knowledge, and then to create new knowledge. How to give CM more active spirit of making use of CM, to promote the beneficial changes and to reduce detrimental changes nowadays are the key subjects of CM practice indeed. This research is trying to build a model for knowledge oriented CM and focus on the creation of organization knowledge, so as to improve the quality of the project and the value of the organization. It is expected to study application strategy and implementation processes, and to offer the actual example based on this model.
According to the result of this research, it was found that the systematic work scenarios established by CM imply the members of functional department to go out of their affiliated unit and to have more opportunities of learning multifarious professional knowledge after applying KM-based CM and re-setting procedure. Through the routine of on-job-training, the purpose of integrating department's function cannot only be achieved, accumulation and creation of the organization abilities but also is promoted throughout the project.
Subjects
型態管理
知識管理
創新
模型
Configuration management
Knowledge management
innovation
model
Type
thesis