Knowledge creation: synthesis, tools and products

Knowledge creation: synthesis, tools and products.

Tools for Learning and Knowledge Creation in Collaborative Networked Organizations

This conceptual paper considers in some detail Nonaka’s Dynamic Theory of Knowledge Creation. Especially the concept of Ba or Basho is explored with the explicit goal to figure out its potential applicability as a tool for the enhancement of learning in Collaborative Networked Organisations (CNOs). To that end, its firm grounding in East-Asian thinking is further analysed, and some similarities...

Lean tools and methods to support efficient knowledge creation

Continuous innovation is a key ingredient in maintaining a competitive advantage in the current dynamic and demanding marketplace. It requires an organization to regularly update and create knowledge for the current generation, and reuse it later for the next generation of a product. In this regard, an integrated dynamic knowledge model is targeted to structurally define a practical knowledge c...

Tools Supporting the Creation and Evolution of Software Development Knowledge

Software development is a knowledge-intensive activity involving the integration of diverse knowledge sources that undergo constant change. The volatility of knowledge in software development requires that knowledge bases are able to support a continuous knowledge acquisition process where tools are available that can make use of partial knowledge. To address these issues, case-based technology...

Discussant: The knowledge-creation perspective on CSCL tools

In this symposium we discuss pedagogical design involving technology that aims to support and foster learning through object-bound collaboration. The designs employed have emerged from the knowledge creation approach (Paavola & Hakkarainen, 2005), which depicts learning as a collaborative activity aimed at creating shared knowledge objects. Technology-mediation has a prominent role in supportin...