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.

Creator(s)

• HENRY PRIBADI

Contributor(s)

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Publisher

Universitas Kristen Petra; 2010

Language

English

Category

jou – Journal

Sub Category

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Source

Jurnal Teknik Industri, Vol. 12, No. 1, Juni 2010, 1-8; Henry Pribadi (NA00404202)

Subject(s)

• INNOVATION
• INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT

File(s)

• jiunkpe-ns-jou-2010-na00404202-23719-ba_japanese-resource1.pdf