The Empirical Analysis And Application Of Influence Factors Of Engineering Design Project Knowledge Management

In 21st century, the era of knowledge-driven economy, knowledge capital is gradually taking place of traditional capital, land and labor force, and then becoming the most important resource in modern enterprise. The theory of modern enterprise management holds that, with growing information exchange, knowledge management has already been regarded as one of the key factors for accomplishing the organization effectiveness. Meanwhile, along with the large scale engineering design project and the complication of multi-project management, in order to keep ahead in the competition, the enterprise ought to implement knowledge management from design project on the basis of continuous knowledge innovation, and coordinate various resources from different aspects to assist the managers in predicting problems, addressing problems, and creating new solutions. Knowledge management of engineering design project is exactly a significantly effective measure taken by the enterprise to improve the adaptability and ability of the organization. Research on knowledge management is the highlight of modern information management, enterprise management, and other subjects. Research on the influence factors of knowledge management could better enhance the effective implementation of knowledge management for enterprises, however, at present; this kind of research is rarely made at home and abroad. Therefore, it is of considerable necessity to make preliminary attempts and efforts on the research of the influence factors of knowledge management in engineering design projects.This paper firstly arranges the interrelated achievements of knowledge management research at home and abroad, and points out the problems of the current research on influence factors of knowledge management at home and abroad. On the basis of this, through the job analysis of the knowledge supervisor, the paper concludes that the knowledge supervisor enjoys great initiative and controlling rights in the implementation of knowledge management, and has more profound understanding on the issues during the implementation of knowledge management, considering them as an important way to collect influence factors of knowledge management. Through depth interview with the knowledge supervisor, with the summarized previous research achievements, using the key event compiling method, it obtains the influence factors of engineering design project and the options of the questionnaire, and classifies the influence factors through three dimensions of management process ability, organization ability and infrastructure ability, proposing the conceptual model of knowledge management influence factors of engineering project and the research hypothesis of this paper.Secondly, the paper compiles the investigation questionnaire of knowledge management influence factors of engineering project on the basis of the conceptual model, interview results, and previous research achievements. The effectiveness and validity of the questionnaire are tested by small scale questionnaire investigation, and the test results demonstrate that the questionnaire possesses fine effectiveness and validity. Based on this, large scale questionnaire investigations are carried out, and the analysis of the sample data using SPSS 13.0 shows that: the five influence factors from the dimension of management process ability are knowledge acquisition, knowledge organization, knowledge sharing, knowledge innovation, and knowledge test and assessment; the four influence factors from the dimension of organization ability are organization structure, leaders' support, strategic scheme, and organization institutions; the three influence factors from the dimension of infrastructure are IT ability, cultural characteristics, and resource allocation. Besides, the key influence factors of knowledge management in engineering design project are identified accurately and effectively. In the view that different informants have various degrees of recognition of each influence factor, it is necessary to consider the informants' recognition and understanding of each influence factor from various perspectives. As a result, the paper makes differentiation analysis on each influence factor using the one-factor analysis of variance and deeply analyzes the causes of significant difference from the perspectives of sociology and psychology.Finally, this paper makes empirical study on the relations between the influence factors of knowledge management and the performance in engineering design project. The research shows that the conceptual model of influence factors of knowledge management in engineering design project could effectively distinguish the differences between high performance organizations and normal performance organizations, and that the influence factors have positive relationship with the performance and different influence factors have different effect on the performance, among which the management process ability exerts marked influence on task performance, the organization ability on contextual performance, and leadership trait on both task performance and contextual performance. In the process of knowledge management in engineering design project, the factors of knowledge sharing and knowledge application contribute most, followed by knowledge acquisition, knowledge organization and knowledge test and appraisal in management process ability. Therefore, implementing knowledge management should begin from the process control, and pay attention to the allocation of infrastructure and the change of organizational management ability.