The Knowledge-Creating Company
How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation
Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi
Reviews and Awards
When the authors detail specific examples of knowledge creation, the reader's interest awakens. - The Wall Street Journal
Nonaka and Tekuchi demonstrate for the reader how it is possible to transfer tacit knowledge into explicit, which in turn is used to create new knowledge. - Knowledge Management, June 2000
Nonaka is indispensable. - Financial Times
Nonaka and Takeuchi have written an academic study that summarises their theories and presents case studies illustrative to a western audience ... a guide to practitioners, based on materials for workshops and consultancy by the authors. - Financial Times
Provides a perceptive and very relevant analysis of how Japanese companies go about creating new knowledge organizationally ... One of the most valuable new books I have covered ... for some time. - Long Range Planning
The book, an esoteric mixture of philosophy and practical guidance, has been a business bestseller in the US. - Charles Leadbeater, Financial Times