Ikujiro Nonaka
Ikujiro Nonaka (野中 郁次郎, Nonaka Ikujirō, born May 10, 1935) is a Japanese
Biography
Nonaka was born in Tokyo in 1935 and as a child he lived through World War II. His nationalist spirit led him to believe that Japan should adapt its technological and organizational skills. In 1958 Nonaka received his B.S. in political science of Waseda University.
After graduation Nonaka accepted a job in
Nonaka was 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, UC Berkeley. Back in Japan he became professor at the Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy of Hitotsubashi University.
Work
Nonaka co-wrote several noteworthy articles with Hirotaka Takeuchi, a colleague at Hitotsubashi University, including:
- The article The New New Product Development Game, in which they emphasised speed and flexibility for Scrum framework, one of the most used agile software developmenttechniques.
- The Nonaka-Takeuchi model of accumulation of tacit knowledge.[3]
In 2008, the
Nonaka has also proposed the SECI model, to present the spiraling knowledge processes of interaction between explicit knowledge and tacit knowledge. SECI is short for:
- Socialization
- Externalization
- Combination
- Internalization
Selected bibliography
- 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; ISBN 978-0-19-509269-1
- 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).
- Managing Flow (with T. Hirata and R. Toyama), Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
- The Core of Organization is People (with H. Sakai, H. Yoshida, T. Sakikawa, T. Hirata, K. Isomura and Yasunobu NARITA), Kyoto: Nakanishiya, 2009 (in Japanese).
- The Philosophy-Creating Company (with K. Genma, T. Hirata, K. Isomura and Yasunobu NARITA), Kyoto: Nakanishiya, 2012 (in Japanese).
- About Ikujiro Nonaka
- 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, pp. 377–385
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References
- ^ Sally Helgesen. November 25, 2008. The Practical Wisdom of Ikujiro Nonaka.Strategy+Business. Retrieved October 15, 2011.http://www.strategy-business.com/article/08407
- ^ Takeuchi, H. and Nonaka, I. 1986. The New New Product Development Game, Harvard Business Review, January/February, 285-305
- ISBN 978-0-19-509269-1.
- Wall Street Journal. Retrieved October 10, 2008.
- ^ Hindle, T. (2008). Guide to management ideas & gurus. Delhi: Profile Books.