Hitotsubashi on Knowledge Management
1st Edition
Published on 6. February 2004
Book
Hardback
250 pages
978-0-470-82074-2 (ISBN)
Description
Knowledge management is the art and science of utilizing knowledge as the most important resource towards gaining a competitive advantage in today's business environment. This book delves behind the theory of knowledge management, bridging the practices of large companies with start-ups.
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Persons
Dr. Takeuchi is the Dean of Hitotsubashi Business School in Tokyo, the world's leading center of Knowledge Management. A Visiting Professor at Harvard University in 1989 and 1990, he has written over thirty articles for the Harvard Business Review, California Management Journal and Journal of Retailing. He co-authored Can Japan Compete? with Michael Porter and has been described by BusinessWeek as one of the Top 10 "management school professors for inhouse corporate education programs" in the world.
Dr. Nonaka is the Xerox Distinguished Professor in Knowledge Management at University of California, Berkeley and Professor of Hitotsubashi's School of International Corporate Strategy. He is widely published in top journals and won Best Book of the Year Award in Business and Management in 1996 for The Knowledge Creating Company (Association of American Publishers) and Best Book Award in Management (Financial Times/Booz Allen & Hamilton) for Intellectualising Capability (1996).
Dr. Nonaka is the Xerox Distinguished Professor in Knowledge Management at University of California, Berkeley and Professor of Hitotsubashi's School of International Corporate Strategy. He is widely published in top journals and won Best Book of the Year Award in Business and Management in 1996 for The Knowledge Creating Company (Association of American Publishers) and Best Book Award in Management (Financial Times/Booz Allen & Hamilton) for Intellectualising Capability (1996).
Content
About the Contributors.Preface.Acknowledgments.Chapter 1. Knowledge Creation and Dialectics (H. Takeuchi & I. Nonaka).Chapter 2. The Knowledge-creating Company (I. Nonaka).Chapter 3. Theory of Organizational Knowledge Creation (I. Nonaka & H. Takeuchi).Chapter 4. Knowledge Creation as Synthesizing Process (I. Nonaka & R. Toyama).Chapter 5. From Managing to Enabling Knowledge (K. Ichijo).Chapter 6. Value Differentiation: Organizing "Know-what" for Product Concept Innovation (K. Kusunoki).Chapter 7. Knowledge Management and Global Competition: Olympus's Approach to Global Knowledge Management in the Digital Still Camera Industry (Y. Ishikura).Chapter 8. Inter-organizational Knowledge Creation: Knowledge and Networks (C. Ahmadjian).Chapter 9. The Strategy-making Process as Dialogue (E. Osomo).Chapter 10. Branding Capabilities: A Look at Sony's Capabilities in Brand Knowledge Creation (S. Akutsu & I. Nonaka). Chapter 11. Synthesizing Modular and Integral Knowledge: Business Architecture Innovation in the IT Era (K. Kusunoki).Chapter 12. Knowledge Creation within a Dialectic Organization (H. Takeuchi).Index.