Nonaka & Takeuchi (SECI Model)

The Nonaka & Takeuchi SECI Model describes how organizations create knowledge through a continuous cycle of interaction between tacit (personal, intuitive) and explicit (formal, documented) knowledge. It involves four processes: Socialization (sharing tacit knowledge), Externalization (articulating tacit knowledge into explicit form), Combination (combining different explicit knowledge), and Internalization (absorbing explicit knowledge to develop tacit understanding). This cycle helps organizations innovate, learn, and adapt by converting individual insights into collective knowledge and vice versa, fostering a dynamic environment of ongoing knowledge creation.