How has Japan become a major economic power, a world leader in the automotive and electronics industries? What is the secret of their success? The consensus has been that, though the Japanese are not particularly innovative, they are exceptionally skilful at imitation, at improving products that already exist. But now two leading Japanese business experts, Ikujiro Nonaka and Hiro Takeuchi, turn this conventional wisdom on its head: Japanese firms are successful, they contend, precisely because they are innovative, because they create new knowledge and use it to produce successful products and technologies. Examining case studies drawn from such firms as Honda, Canon, Matsushita, NEC, 3M, GE, and the U.S. Marines, this book reveals how Japanese companies translate tacit to explicit knowledge and use it to produce new processes, products, and services.

The knowledge-creating company : how Japanese companies create the dynamics of innovation

In this provocative book, Barwise and Perry tackle the slippery subject of \"meaning, \" a subject that has long vexed linguists, language philosophers, and logicians.

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Situations and Attitudes.

The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms.

PurposeThis paper aims to examine the extent to which Business Intelligence and Big Data feature within academic research in hospitality and tourism published until 2016, by identifying research ga ...

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Business intelligence and big data in hospitality and tourism : A systematic literature review

Why we buy—The science of shopping

In this chapter, we propose a tourism information service for student school trips that provides the current position of students and a history of movement during their trips for typical situations and helps students to move quickly to evacuation areas in the event of a disaster The number of students that go on school trips in Japan is approximately three million per year This is one of the largest group trip segments in the Japanese travel market Students typically go on school trips during the third year of junior high school and also during the second year of senior high school Since the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011, teachers and travel agencies are now required to ensure the security of students during school trips However, the dedicated disaster information system is not useful for this purpose when a disaster occurs There is a need for a system that is designed both for typical situations and also for disaster situations An application system for tourists is suitable for a dual-purpose mission like this We designed and implemented a tourism information system that consists of (1) a smartphone application that captures the students’ current position via GPS, (2) a server application that receives and accumulates the position information and provides the current position and a history of movement to the teachers, and (3) an additional application module that communicates information to the students about the evacuation area and the evacuation route in the event of a disaster and also provides direct verbal communication via IP phone We have conducted field experiments in the Kyoto area and have received positive feedback from school teachers and travel agencies

A Tourism Information Service for Safety During School Trips

Effect of Group Size Sharing a Mouse in Collaborative Learning using Multi-Mouse Quiz in an Elementary School

Semantic Annotation of Tourists' GPS Trajectories Under Environmental Constraints

We explored interaction between human and artifacts to establish a methodology for knowledge creation in a real work place. In this paper, we are going to propose a concept of new knowledge management "Knowledge Crystallization and Liquidization" and a system to support the process "Knowledge Nebula Crystallizer". Exhibition planning was selected as an application.

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Knowledge Nebula Crystallizer for exhibition planning

The following sections are included:IntroductionParticipatory ProductionExperimental CaseObjectives of the experimentSchedule of the caseOrganization for the projectPractice of the projectStarting phase (1–17 January 2005)Specification phase (18 December 2005–15 January 2006)Design stage (16 January–26 February 2006)Manufacturing phase (27 February–25 March 2006)Reflection phase (25 March–17 July 2006)Problems and Improvements in the Participatory ProductionFacilitation in the case and its problemsIssues in project managementIssues in learningIssues in production technologiesIssues in utilization of information technologyConclusionReferences

Mikihiko Mori

Papers

A Tourism Information Service for Safety During School Trips

Effect of Group Size Sharing a Mouse in Collaborative Learning using Multi-Mouse Quiz in an Elementary School

Semantic Annotation of Tourists' GPS Trajectories Under Environmental Constraints

Knowledge Nebula Crystallizer for exhibition planning

Projects of Participatory Production and Their Management: Practice in Industrial Accumulation in Suwa