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The SECI Model maps how shared experience articulation recombination and practice can develop knowledge without promising total codification
Premise
Knowledge does not become organizational capability merely because it is stored. The SECI Model frames creation as interaction between tacit knowledge embedded in experience and explicit knowledge that can be articulated, combined, represented, and used. Its executive value is architectural: it connects observation, conversation, artifacts, and practice instead of treating knowledge management as document collection.
Nonaka published the precursor dynamic theory in 1994, and Nonaka and Takeuchi established the canonical joint formulation in 1995. Their model shifted attention from possession of information to the movement and amplification of knowledge across individuals, groups, organizations, and sometimes interorganizational settings. The same ambition creates its central risk: implying that all tacit knowing can be converted cleanly into explicit form.
What the model is: Knowledge Creation — The SECI Model in Knowledge →
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Editorial orientation · Family
Tool
In this series, Tool names the editorial family primarily used to act on, examine, measure or organize communication. It includes instruments, methods, practices, protocols, codes and institutional arrangements. Membership does not certify effectiveness, portability or safe use in every setting.
Editorial orientation · Category
Theories & Explanatory Models
Explains how or why a communication process works by relating mechanisms, conditions or variables. Its value is an account that can guide inquiry into what produces an outcome, rather than a name for the outcome alone.
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