Enabling Knowledge Creation: How to Unlock the Mystery of Tacit Knowledge and Release the Power of Innovation

摘要: When The Knowledge-Creating Company (OUP; nearly 40,000 copies sold) appeared, it was hailed as a landmark work in the field of knowledge management. Now, Enabling Knowledge Creation ventures even further into this all-important territory, showing how firms can generate and nurture ideas by using concepts introduced first book. Weaving together lessons from such international leaders Siemens, Unilever, Skandia, Sony, along with their own first-hand consulting experiences, authors introduce enabling-the overall set organizational activities that promote creation-and demonstrate its power to transform an organization's value-creating actions. They describe five key "knowledge enablers" outline what takes instill vision, manage conversations, mobilize activists, create right context for creation, globalize local knowledge. stress creation must be more than exclusive purview one individual-or designated "knowledge" officer. Indeed, demands new roles responsibilities everyone organization-from elite executive suite frontline workers on shop floor. Whether activist, caring expert, or corporate epistemologist who focuses theory itself, organization has vital role play making "care" integral part everyday experience; supporting, nurturing, encouraging microcommunities innovation fun; creating shared space where is created, exchanged, used sustained, competitive advantage. This much-anticipated sequel puts practical tools hands managers executives are struggling unleash organization.