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Ikujiro Nonaka Quotes

1935–2025 Japan

Ikujiro Nonaka (野中郁次郎, 10 May 1935 – 25 January 2025) was a Japanese organizational theorist and Professor Emeritus at the Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy of the Hitotsubashi University, best known for his study of knowledge management.

Japan
Business theorists

Also known as: Nonaka Ikujiro

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In an economy where the only certainty is uncertainty, the one sure source of lasting competitive advantage is knowledge.

Ikujiro Nonaka (1991)

Any organization that deals with a changing environment ought not only to process information efficiently, but also create information and knowledge.

Why is ultimately a question of purpose: Why do we exist? In most organizations, people are not encouraged to keep asking questions.

In the act of creating, people argue. They have heated dialogue. They get upset! Without real exchange, you can’t create knowledge. Knowledge creation is a human activity

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ikujiro Nonaka (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.