Given the extensive changes happening across the business world with regard to more collaborative types of education and open innovation, companies are increasingly looking for better methods to foster new knowledge, seeing it as a vital source of value creation and competitive advantage past the mere pursuit of profit maximization.
Two decades since releasing his seminal book, The Knowledge-Creating Company, Ikujiro Nonaka revisits those theories and outlines a succession of steps that companies and their leaders can take to make a more fertile environment for new knowledge creation, predicated on the Japanese notion of ba. What is wanted, he says, is nothing less than a completely new way of performing and perceiving the role of management.
PUBLICATION DATE: September 15, 2012 PRODUCT #: IIR083-HCB-ENG
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