HubHip: Reference: Knowledge Management: Knowledge Creation (227)

DescriptionKnowledge involves the transformation of information into capabilities for effective action. This can only be done through human understanding. The human mind can create unique connections between seemingly unrelated information to come up with breakthrough ideas, but to do this, the mind must be trained to see beyond the obvious.

Knowledge Creation

ThinkShop (Site) - Thinkshop is an innovation consulting company with Seattle and New York offices. ThinkShop consults clients on creativity, innovation, naming, strategy and training projects.
Create-It! Inc. (Site) - Our mission is to help growing businesses use creativity and technology to chart a course for the future using innovative strategies. We serve a diverse roster of clients through consulting, training, seminars and keynote speeches.
Illumine Ltd (Site) - Training in Creativity, thinking and learning for business and the public sector. In-house and open courses in Creative Thinking, Innovation, Mind Mapping, Speed Reading, Accelerated Learning, Study Skills and Stress Management. Certified by De Bono and Buzan.
Tacit Knowing (Site) - Dr. Juani Swart's resources for integrating theory and practice. Features conference papers, links and contact information.
Innovation House (Site) - Brainstorming, creative thinking and problem solving for business including free resources and access to Innovation Toolbox.
Executive Development Inc. (Site) - A training and development company providing workshops and software around decision making, problem solving, team skills, creativity, and meeting management.
DirectedCreativity (Site) - A guide to creative thinking for serious people, and the eight basic heuristics of directed creativity. This is the web site for Paul Plsek and Associates in Roswell, Georgia, USA. Heuristics are a key to good higher-order thinking and knowledge creation. See that section in particular.
Knowledge-at-Work (Site) - A collection of personal thoughts about learning, community and social affordances for knowledge creation, by Denham Gray. Features archives.
Creativity at Work (Site) - A resource for training and development in creativity and innovation in organizations. Has a newsletter, and some articles and essays by 'Corporate Alchemist' Linda Naiman.
Creative Center of the Universe (Site) - Roger von Oech thinks this site is one of the most comprehensive web-sites around on the subject of creativity. It is a little whacky but full of good stuff that does make you think including the creative timeline of the world.
CreativeThink (Site) - Stimulate personal or group creativity and innovation through seminars, workshops, and creative thinking books that Roger von Oech has written. This is his company web site.
Creativity Consulting: Proactive Solutions (Site) - We have assisted individuals, small businesses, companies, and corporations with insight, and innovative thinking.
Innovation Centre Europe (Site) - Helps companies with 3rd millennium thinking and creative ways to change.
Vital Enterprises (Site) - Develops world-class performers-- people who create desired results with minimal resources and who empower others with their knowledge, skills, and character to do the same.
Business Thinking Implementation (Site) - An article by Hidetoshi Shibata in 1998 that describes creating leadership and organizational knowledge. Provides some information on how knowledge creation is key to successful management. The article is mainly about implementing good business thinking.
How Much Information? (Site) - Attempts to measure how much information is produced in the world each year by looking at media and other variables. Produced by the School of Information Management Systems at the University of California, Berkeley. Charts and graphs that show comparisons with various forms of knowledge whether digital or print, books vs. magazines, and on PC vs Enterprise databanks. A participative ongoing study that welcomes input.
Brain-Trusts (Site) - Facilitates innovation, business development, new ideas and concepts. Features events and a newsletter.
The Thinking Business (Site) - The Thinking Business is an international brain training company specialising in thinking skills including creative thinking, strategic thinking, mind mapping and thinking styles profiling
Centre for the Development of Creative Thinking (Site) - The COCD creativity site offers creativity tools and training. Web site is in English and Dutch
HBS Working Knowledge (Site) - The Harvard Business School's Working Knowledge web site has long been recognized as a good resource for more practical business fare than usually found in the Harvard Business Review, which makes this section on Innovation and Change articles of particular relevance to Innovation managers.