The Knowledge-Creating Company

Nonaka and Takeuchi describe how organizations create new knowledge through the interaction between tacit and explicit knowledge. Their SECI Model (Socialization, Externalization, Combination, Internalization) explains the spiral process by which individual insights become organizational capability. This thinking informs how we design workshops and coaching engagements to move knowledge from heads to hands to habits.

Resources

• Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi, “The Knowledge-Creating Company” (Oxford University Press, 1995)
• SECI Model — the concept page for the SECI knowledge creation model