We are reaching the end of the second generation of knowledge management, with its focus on tacit-explicit knowledge conversion. Triggered by the SECI model of Nonaka, it replaced a first generation focus on timely information provision for decision support and in support of BPR initiatives. Like BPR it has substantially failed to deliver on its promised benefits. The third generation requires ...

This paper reports on the findings from an empirical study of the knowledge creation process within product development teams. Previous writings on knowledge, information, creativity, etc have been dominated by definitional discussions, prescriptive models, and debates about the social basis of knowledge, etc. A large proportion of research has focused on technological means, in particular ICT,...

Based on the knowledge sharing model by Nonaka (1994), this study examines the relative efficacy of various Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) applications in facilitating sharing of explicit and tacit knowledge among professional accountants in Malaysia. The results of this study indicate that ICTs, generally, facilitate all modes of knowledge sharing. Best-Practice Repositories are...

Due to the vagueness of the concept of knowledge, the software market for knowledge management (KM) seems to be quite confusing. Technology vendors are developing different implementations of the KM concepts in their software products. Because of the variety and quantity of KM tools available on the market, a typology may be a valuable aid to organizations that are searching and evaluating KM s...

Received: 7 April 2010 Revised: 7 December 2010 Accepted: 13 December 2010 Abstract Studying knowledge strategy empirically requires that specific strategies be operationalized. In this paper, two existing knowledge strategy typologies (the Bierly & Chakrabarti typology of Loners, Explorers, Exploiters and Innovators and the von Krogh, Nonaka & Aben typology of Leveraging, Expanding, Appropriat...

The basis of the research is Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi’s knowledge management theory so as to develop junior high vocational teachers’ knowledge management platform and to provide the practical training community the mechanism for the dialogue space and knowledge sharing. Therefore, it could assist the vocational teachers to make good use of the critical knowledge of teaching, admini...

For example, one popular approach to knowledge creation proposed by Nonaka and Takeuchi [1] focuses on the process of converting tacit knowledge into explicit or codified knowledge. While this is a useful and necessary function in the development of new knowledge, it represents a small, and arguably less than significant part of the total process of knowledge creation. Though such well intended...

International organizations are increasingly focusing on organizational learning. The experience accumulated by development agencies throughout the world has become a source of organizational knowledge, which, according to Nonaka, is transferred through processes of socialization and externalization. Based upon three case studies and in-depth interviewing of World Bank managers and evaluators o...