TY - JOUR
AU - Nonaka, Ikujiro
AB - Redundant, Overlapping Organization: A Japanese Approach to Managing the Innovation Process Ikujiro Nonaka nn ovation is a product of the interaction between necessity and chance, order and disorder, continuity and discontinuity. I Innovation is the result not only of the planned allocation of resources to meet some predetermined clear objective, but also ofsome difficult to predict or duplicate redundancy, chance, uncertainty, or even chaos. It is not unusual to discover information and knowledge born of the development process that did not sequentially follow the innovators' original intent. Most of the research to date has focused only on the analytical aspects of innovation through the hypothesizing of "problem solving" or "information processing" models.' In this process one first determines, based on market research, what kind of products to produce and at what price and quality levels to produce them-that is, one clearly defines the "problem" (largely ignoring how the problem is created). This problem is then efficiently disposed of by breaking it down into hierarchical units and analyzing and solving those units in a sequential, orderly fashion. In this way, once the problem is given, innovation moves forward in time through the sequential reduction of the information and decision burden. 
TI - Redundant, Overlapping Organization: A Japanese Approach to Managing the Innovation Process
JF - California Management Review
DO - 10.2307/41166615
DA - 1990-04-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/redundant-overlapping-organization-a-japanese-approach-to-managing-the-hqgpp9HeD0
SP - 27
EP - 38
VL - 32
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -