Contextual-Based Knowledge Creation for Agroindustrial Innovation

Innovation and Knowledge Creation

This paper provides an overview of the predominant theory of organisational knowledge creation. This was first described comprehensively in the book ‘The Knowledge Creating Organisation’ by Nonaka and Takeuchi in 1995, but with its roots in an earlier HBR article from 1986 entitled ‘The New New Product Development Game’. This paper introduces the analogy of the game of rugby for team based know...

IT-Enabled Knowledge Creation for Open Innovation

Open innovation is increasingly important for researchers and practitioners alike. Open innovation is closely linked to knowledge creation in that, with open innovation, knowledge inflows and outflows are exploited for innovation. In the information systems field, open innovation has been closely linked to open source software development teams. However, the literature has not yet identified ho...

Knowledge creation for innovation in a virtual environment

In this paper we report an experiment carried out in a large Spanish savings bank with over 22000 employees and more than 4400 branches to test the feasibility of knowledge creation in a virtual environment, aiming at the participation of as many employees as possible. This paper explores how a specific organizational initiative, based on setting up a virtual environment that facilitates partic...

Automatic Creation of Contextual Knowledge in Simulated Agents

Modeling human behavior can be complicated and expensive. To be able to reduce costs, new methodologies and tools must be developed that automate the creation of human behavior models. In this paper we describe one way to accomplish this through the use of Genetic Programming in conjunction with Context-Based Reasoning (CxBR). Context-Based Reasoning is based on the concept that humans think an...

Ideas : Customer Co - Creation , Partner Sourcing , and Knowledge Creation for Innovation