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Innovation Process: Diversion
and Conversion of Ideas
"The process of innovation is a
rhythm of search and selection,
exploration and synthesis,
cycles of divergent thinking
followed by convergence," say
Dorothy Leonard and Silvia
Sensiper, the authors of The
Role of
Tacit Knowledge in Group
Innovation.
Divergence, or creative
synthesis, is the interlocking
of previously unrelated skills,
or matrices of thought. As soon
as a sufficient choice of
innovative ideas has been
generated, a solution –
convergence upon acceptable
action – needs to be defined and
agreed upon. Confining the
discussion here to managing the
tacit dimensions of knowledge
three types of tacit knowledge –
overlapping specific,
collective, and guiding – need
to be managed.
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Knowledge-based Enterprise
Organizational IQ
Knowledge
Management vs. Information
Management
Tacit
Knowledge
How To
Manage Tacit Knowledge
Organizational Barriers to the
Sharing of Tacit Knowledge |
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