The Knowledge-Creating Company《Management Guru》

Much of their work is built on an examination of the different concepts of knowledge in the East and the West. In their book “The Knowledge-Creating Company” the two academics differentiated between what they called implicit and explicit knowledge: the former is the eastern type; the latter is familiar to the West. Implicit knowledge is intuitive ambiguous and non-linear; explicit knowledge is the exact opposite laid down in manuals ***ysed and stored in databases.

They outlined a four-stage process by which an organisation develops knowledge. They gave it an acronym SECI which stands for socialisation externalisation combination/creation and internalisation. These are the means by which knowledge is “amplified throughout the organisation creating a spiral model of knowledge creation”.

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http://www.economist.com/business/management/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13517582&Fsrc=mgttkgnwl