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The Knowledge-Creating Company

How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation

By: Ikujiro Nonaka,Hirotaka Takeuchi

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The Knowledge-Creating Company

How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation

By: Ikujiro Nonaka,Hirotaka Takeuchi

How have Japanese companies become world leaders in the automotive and electronics industries, among others? What is the secret of their success? Two leading Japanese business experts, Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi, are the first to tie the success of Japanese companies to their ability to create new knowledge and use it to produce successful products and technologies. In The Knowledge-Creating Company, Nonaka and Takeuchi provide an inside look at how Japanese companies go about creating this new knowledge organizationally. The authors point out that there are two types of knowledge: explicit knowledge, contained in manuals and procedures, and tacit knowledge, learned only by experience, and communicated only indirectly, through metaphor and analogy. U.S. managers focus on explicit knowledge. The Japanese, on the other hand, focus on tacit knowledge. And this, the authors argue, is the key to their success--the Japanese have learned how to transform tacit into explicit knowledge. To explain how this is done--and illuminate Japanese business practices as they do so--the authors range from Greek philosophy to Zen Buddhism, from classical economists to modern management gurus, illustrating the theory of organizational knowledge creation with case studies drawn from such firms as Honda, Canon, Matsushita, NEC, Nissan, 3M, GE, and even the U.S. Marines. For instance, using Matsushita's development of the Home Bakery (the world's first fully automated bread-baking machine for home use), they show how tacit knowledge can be converted to explicit knowledge: when the designers couldn't perfect the dough kneading mechanism, a software programmer apprenticed herself with the master baker at Osaka International Hotel, gained a tacit understanding of kneading, and then conveyed this information to the engineers. In addition, the authors show that, to create knowledge, the best management style is neither top-down nor bottom-up, but rather what they call "middle-up-down," in which the middle managers form a bridge between the ideals of top management and the chaotic realities of the frontline. As we make the turn into the 21st century, a new society is emerging. Peter Drucker calls it the "knowledge society," one that is drastically different from the "industrial society," and one in which acquiring and applying knowledge will become key competitive factors. Nonaka and Takeuchi go a step further, arguing that creating knowledge will become the key to sustaining a competitive advantage in the future. Because the competitive environment and customer preferences changes constantly, knowledge perishes quickly. With The Knowledge-Creating Company, managers have at their fingertips years of insight from Japanese firms that reveal how to create knowledge continuously, and how to exploit it to make successful new products, services, and systems.

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0199879923

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The Knowledge-creating Company

How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation

By: Ikujirō Nonaka,Hirotaka Takeuchi

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How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation

By: Ikujirō Nonaka,Hirotaka Takeuchi

The authors contend that Japanese firms are successful because they are innovative--and not merely masters of imitation as some think--and because they create new knowledge and use it to produce successful products and technologies. Illustrations.

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OUP USA

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0195092694

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Extreme Toyota

Radical Contradictions That Drive Success at the World's Best Manufacturer

By: Emi Osono,Norihiko Shimizu,Hirotaka Takeuchi

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Extreme Toyota

Radical Contradictions That Drive Success at the World's Best Manufacturer

By: Emi Osono,Norihiko Shimizu,Hirotaka Takeuchi

Extreme Toyota offers the first real, comprehensive inside look at what makes one of the world?s best companies run. With unprecedented access to the inner working of Toyota, the authors spent six years researching the company, interviewing hundreds of executives and employees, and discovering the company's secret of success. What they uncovered will surprise you and change the way you think about business. Simultaneously rigidly traditional and seriously innovative, it is precisely those internal contradictions that make the company so successful and admired.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470267623

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The Wise Company

How Companies Create Continuous Innovation

By: Ikujiro Nonaka,Hirotaka Takeuchi

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The Wise Company

How Companies Create Continuous Innovation

By: Ikujiro Nonaka,Hirotaka Takeuchi

High-velocity change is the fundamental challenge facing companies today. Few companies, however, are prepared to continuously innovate-because they focus on the short-term and do not emphasize the wisdom needed to make sure that their interests are aligned with those of society. Practical wisdom is the bases of continuous innovation, where companies ceaselessly and repeatedly creating new knowledge, disseminating it throughout the organization, and converting knowledge to action over time. In The Wise Company, legendary management experts Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi highlight how various companies have confronted the challenge of rapid change to create new products and new ways of doing business that benefit employees, consumers, and society. The key: a relentless self-renewal process where companies realize the future they envisions, rather than only responding to changes in the environment. Nonaka and Takeuchi argue that while knowledge-creating companies focusing on tacit and explicit knowledge can generate innovation, they cannot create it on a continuous and ongoing basis without having wisdom about human interactions and how they influence organizational structures and practices. Companies that have resilience, longevity, and sustainability share a number of characteristics, Nonaka and Takeuchi show. Strategies are based on alignment of organizational and societal benefits. Leaders grasp the core of any situation or problem quickly, and intuitively comprehend the nature and meaning of people, things, and events. But wise leadership is not enough: wisdom must infuse the organization through informal as well as formal shared interactions and communications that focus on metaphors and stories that convey the essence and meaning of strategies and actions. In short, Nonaka and Takeuchi demonstrate how continuous innovation results from companies ceaselessly and repeatedly creating new knowledge, disseminating knowledge throughout the organization, and converting that knowledge to action. The Wise Company presents a new model of knowledge-creation and practice for the twenty-first century.

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0190497017

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Extreme Toyota

Radical Contradictions That Drive Success at the World's Best Manufacturer

By: Emi Osono,Norihiko Shimizu,Hirotaka Takeuchi

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Radical Contradictions That Drive Success at the World's Best Manufacturer

By: Emi Osono,Norihiko Shimizu,Hirotaka Takeuchi

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The Wise Company

How Companies Create Continuous Innovation

By: Ikujiro Nonaka,Hirotaka Takeuchi

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How Companies Create Continuous Innovation

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0190497025

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Can Japan Compete?

By: Michael Porter,Mick Takeuchi,Sakakibara

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Can Japan Compete?

By: Michael Porter,Mick Takeuchi,Sakakibara

In Can Japan Compete?, world-renowned competition strategist Michael Porter and his colleagues explain why American assumptions about Japan have proved so inaccurate, what Japan must do to regain its strength, and what its journey can tell us about how to succeed in the new global economy.The research behind this book began in the early 1990s, at a time when Japan's economic success was overwhelmingly credited to the Japanese government and its unique management policies. Porter and his colleagues started by asking a crucial but previously overlooked question: If Japanese government policies and practices accounted for the nation's extraordinary competitiveness, then why wasn't Japan competitive in many of the industries where those policies had been prominently implemented? The authors and a team of colleagues surveyed a vast array of Japanese industries. This surprising book is the result of their work. The continuing influence of Japanese government and management strategies worldwide makes Can Japan Compete? a must read for anyone competing in the global economy.

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Basic Books

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0465059899

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Book's by Hirotaka Takeuchi

The Knowledge-Creating Company

The Knowledge-Creating Company

The Knowledge-creating Company

The Knowledge-creating Company

Extreme Toyota

Extreme Toyota

The Wise Company

The Wise Company

Extreme Toyota

Extreme Toyota

The Wise Company

The Wise Company

Can Japan Compete?

Can Japan Compete?

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