Ba, Japanese-Style Knowledge Creation Concept: A Building Brick of Innovation Process inside Organization
Abstract: Survival of a firm
in industry will be primarily determined by how efficient it can harness
competitive advantage from innovation
process. Innovation process itself has strong correlation with knowledge
creation, and to understand about innovation, people must understand about
knowledge creation process. By successfully harnessing knowledge, people can use
those resources to create some innovation product or service that in the end
will provide competitive edge into the company. Unfortunately, not much
research can be sought to provide more insight on the creation of knowledge
inside a company. This paper explores about interesting concept of knowledge
creation in Japanese term, which is called as “ba”. Ba concept can be used to
describe how tacit knowledge and casual
knowledge can be harnessed into a useful knowledge which in turn will be
transformed into innovation process.
This paper will briefly give some introduction about ba concept and how
it is related to innovation process. A brief study of one multinational company
will be used to describe how concept of ba is applied in understanding the
success story of innovation from knowledge creation.
Author: Henry Pribadi
Journal Code: jptindustrigg100005
