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In 'The Knowledge-Creating Company', Ikujiro Nonaka shows ow your company can exploit its knowledge to continually innovate and reinvent itself in the face of relentless change.

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<br> A fascinating, exciting exposure to a new way of thinking about the knowledge-based company....Provides a model of knowledge creation that will be a touchstone of future work in this field....This important, imaginative book will challenge and intrigue managers and management scholars alike. --D.<br>Eleanor Westney, MIT Sloan School of Management in the Sloan Management Review<br> A fascinating volume that will interest philosophers, managers, and more common readers....The analyses are so thorough that they make the one- and two-page descriptions in Forbes magazine seem like elementary fairy stories. The authors have done their research well and provide delightful<br>details. --Minneapolis Star Tribune<br> Knowledge creation is to the 90s what excellence was to the 80s. I can't imagine a better book on organizational design for innovation. Nor can I imagine a better common focus for managers and scholars. This is the best and most original blend of organizational theory and practice we are likely to<br>see for some time. --Karl E. Weick, University of Michigan School of Business Administration<br> This is the most creative book on management to come out of Japan. The same authors who introduced the rugby approach to new product development, now bring us a myriad of new concepts: tacit knowledge, the oneness of mind and body, middle-up-down management, hypertext organization, to name a few.<br>The insights for this book originated in Japan, but the managerial implications are universal. It is a must read for managers competing in the borderless world. --Kenichi Ohmae, Ohmae & Associates<br> Nonaka and Takeuchi take on asubject that is truly on the frontier of management: the process by which companies learn and create competitively valuable knowledge. What is refreshing about this book is that Nonaka and Takeuchi go beyond the slogans that have characterized much of the previous work<br>on this subject, and delve into the specific organization structures and processes involved in organizational creativity and learning. They bring a wealth of specific, in-depth company evidence to bear on the task. The result is an important book which will advance both the literature as well as<br>corporate practice. --Michael E. Porter, C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration, Harvard University<br>

A fascinating, exciting exposure to a new way of thinking about the knowledge-based company....Provides a model of knowledge creation that will be a touchstone of future work in this field....This important, imaginative book will challenge and intrigue managers and management scholars alike. --D.Eleanor Westney, MIT Sloan School of Management in the Sloan Management Review A fascinating volume that will interest philosophers, managers, and more common readers....The analyses are so thorough that they make the one- and two-page descriptions in Forbes magazine seem like elementary fairy stories. The authors have done their research well and provide delightfuldetails. --Minneapolis Star Tribune Knowledge creation is to the 90s what excellence was to the 80s. I can't imagine a better book on organizational design for innovation. Nor can I imagine a better common focus for managers and scholars. This is the best and most original blend of organizational theory and practice we are likely tosee for some time. --Karl E. Weick, University of Michigan School of Business Administration This is the most creative book on management to come out of Japan. The same authors who introduced the rugby approach to new product development, now bring us a myriad of new concepts: tacit knowledge, the oneness of mind and body, middle-up-down management, hypertext organization, to name a few.The insights for this book originated in Japan, but the managerial implications are universal. It is a must read for managers competing in the borderless world. --Kenichi Ohmae, Ohmae & Associates Nonaka and Takeuchi take on asubject that is truly on the frontier of management: the process by which companies learn and create competitively valuable knowledge. What is refreshing about this book is that Nonaka and Takeuchi go beyond the slogans that have characterized much of the previous workon this subject, and delve into the specific organization structures and processes involved in organizational creativity and learning. They bring a wealth of specific, in-depth company evidence to bear on the task. The result is an important book which will advance both the literature as well ascorporate practice. --Michael E. Porter, C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration, Harvard University

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Ikujiro Nonaka is Professor Emeritus of international business strategy at Hitotsubashi University's Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy, in Tokyo. He is coauthor, with Hirotaka Takeuchi, of The Knowledge-Creating Company: How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation.

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