Implement Knowledge Innovation: Some World 500 companies explore the shadow of tacit knowledge.

Author: George von Krogh
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Publish Date: 2004-10-01
Features: This book is part of the "500 Global Top Enterprise Development Series." It proposes new concepts on how to innovate knowledge within organizations and how to transform knowledge innovation into a relative advantage by elaborating on the possible conditions for achieving knowledge innovation. This book goes beyond the limitations of current knowledge management and knowledge innovation theories, exploring practical issues in the amorphous, ever-expanding field of human knowledge.
After the publication of Knowledge Innovation Companies, it became highly popular in the field of knowledge management and was regarded as a landmark work. Now, Achieving Knowledge Innovation delves further into this crucial area, demonstrating to readers how companies can generate and nurture new ideas by applying the concepts outlined in the previous book.
The author synthesizes the lessons from international giants such as Siemens, Unilever, Skandia, and Sony, along with their own hands-on consulting experience, to present a comprehensive framework for knowledge innovation—a set of institutional organizational activities that promote knowledge innovation and highlight its power to transform organizational knowledge into value-creating actions. They describe five key "methods for achieving knowledge innovation," summarized as having knowledge innovation insight, mastering conversation skills, motivating knowledge innovators, creating a conducive environment, and globalizing local knowledge.
The author emphasizes that knowledge innovation must transcend the authority of individual or designated "knowledge" officers. It requires every member of the organization, from top management to frontline workers, to take on new roles and responsibilities. Every individual in the organization—whether an innovator, a caring expert, or a company epistemologist focused on knowledge theory—plays a vital role in transforming "care" into an integral part of daily work, supporting, nurturing, and encouraging small groups, and creating spaces for sharing and exchanging innovative knowledge to maintain competitive advantages.