Enabling Knowledge Creation.

This book ventures into the all-important territory of knowledge management, showing how firms can generate and nurture ideas by using concepts introduced in the authors' first book, The Knowledge-Creating Company.

Weaving together lessons from such international leaders as Siemens, Unilever, Skandia, and Sony, along with their own first-hand consulting experiences, the authors introduce knowledge enabling -- the overall set of organizational activities that promote knowledge creation -- and demonstrate its power to transform an organization's knowledge into value-creating actions. They describe the five key "knowledge enablers" and outline what it takes to instill a knowledge vision -- manage conversations, mobilize knowledge activists, create the right context for knowledge creation, and globalize local knowledge.

By Georg von Krogh, Kazuo Ichijo and Ikujiro Nonaka. Published by Oxford University Press.