Ikujiro Nonaka > Quotes

“Tacit knowledge is personal, context-specific, and therefore hard to formalize and communicate. Explicit or “codified” knowledge, on the other hand, refers to knowledge that is transmittable in formal, systematic language.”
― Ikujiro Nonaka, The Knowledge-Creating Company: How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation

“Such reflection is always necessary in the knowledge-creating company, but it is especially essential during times of crisis or breakdown, when a company’s traditional categories of knowledge no longer work.”
― Ikujiro Nonaka, The Knowledge-Creating Company