Ikujiro Nonaka
Ikujiro Nonaka (野中 郁次郎, Nonaka Ikujirō, born May 10, 1935) is an influential writer and Professor Emeritus, Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy; the First Distinguished Drucker Scholar in Residence at the Drucker School and Institute, Claremont Graduate University; the Xerox Distinguished Faculty Scholar, Institute of Management, Innovation and Organization, University of California, Berkeley. He is best known for his study of Knowledge Management. He co-authored The Knowledge-Creating Company with Hirotaka Takeuchi. In 2008, the Wall Street Journal listed him as one of the most influential persons on business thinking.[1], as well as by The Economist in its "Guide to Management Ideas and Gurus".[2]
Introduction
Biography
Life
Key work
The New New Product Development Game
"The New New Product Development Game"[3] is the name of one of his most influential writings, co-authored with Hiroaka Takeuchi a colleague at Hitotsubashi University, whom he first met when they were both students at Berkeley. This article is considered to be the origin of the Scrum development framework, one of the most used agile software development techniques.
Professor Ikujiro Nonaka has proposed the SECI model, one of the most widely cited theories in knowledge management (Gourlay 2003), to present the spiraling knowledge processes of interaction between explicit knowledge and tacit knowledge.
SECI:
- Socialization
- Externalization
- Combination
- Internalization
Bibliography (selected)
- Essence of Failure: Organizational Study of the Japanese Armed Forces during the World War II (with R. Tobe, Y. Teramoto, S. Kamata, T. Suginoo and T. Murai), Tokyo: Diamond-sha, 1984 (in Japanese).
- Nonaka, Ikujiro; Takeuchi, Hirotaka (1995), The knowledge creating company: how Japanese companies create the dynamics of innovation, New York: Oxford University Press, p. 284, ISBN 9780195092691
- Enabling Knowledge Creation (with G. von Krogh and K. Ichijo), New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
- Hitotsubashi on Knowledge Management (with co-authors), John Wiley (Asia), 2003.
- The Essence of Innovation (with A. Katsumi), Tokyo: Nikkei BP, 2004 (in Japanese).
- The Essence of Strategy (with co-authors), Tokyo: Nikkei BP, 2005 (in Japanese).
See also
References
- ^ Erin White. "Quest for Innovation, Motivation Inspires the Gurus". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved October 10, 2008.
- ^ Hindle, T. (2008). Guide to management ideas & gurus. Delhi: Profile Books.
- ^ Takeuchi, H. and Nonaka, I. 1986. The new product development game, Harvard Business Review, January/February, 285-305
- Nonaka, Ikujiro (1991), "The knowledge creating company", Harvard Business Review, 69 (6 Nov-Dec): 96–104.
- Gourlay, Stephen (2003), "The SECI model of knowledge creation: some empirical shortcomings", 4th European Conference on Knowledge Management, Oxford, England, 18-19 Sep 2003
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