Enabling knowledge creation

This book is about knowledge enabling. It is our strong conviction that knowledge cannot be managed, only enabled. Since the publication of the Knowledge-Creating Company by Nonoka and Tekeuch in 1995, the concept of knowledge-Creating Company by Nonaka and Takeuch in 1995, the concept of knowledge as competitive advantage of a firm has been drawing considerable attention form the corporate world and management academics. However, in many organization, a legitimate interest in knowledge creation has been reduced to an over emphasis on information technology or measurement tools. Knowledge management rather than knowledge creation has been frequently discussed in business. However, the term management implies control of processes that may be inherently uncontrollable or, at least, stifled by heavy-handed direction.