Nonaka & Takeuchi (the authors of the SECI model)

Nonaka and Takeuchi are researchers who developed the SECI model to explain how organizations create knowledge. The model describes four key processes: Socialization (sharing tacit knowledge through experience), Externalization (expressing tacit knowledge as explicit concepts), Combination (integrating different explicit knowledge), and Internalization (absorbing explicit knowledge into tacit understanding). Together, these processes form a cycle that facilitates continuous learning and innovation within organizations. Their work emphasizes that knowledge creation is dynamic and interactive, involving both individual insights and collaborative sharing, which helps organizations adapt and improve over time.