concept of ba

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Concept of Ba

"Ba" can be thought of as a shared space for

emerging relationships.

Can be physical (e.g. office, dispersed business

space),

Virtual (e.g., email, teleconference),

Mental (e.g. shared experiences, ideas, ideals) or

Any combination of them.

Ba provides a platform for advancing individual

and/or collective knowledge.

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Ba

Four types of ba corresponding to the fourstages of the SECI model.

Each category describes a ba especially suited to

each of the four knowledge conversion modes.

These ba offer platforms for specific steps in the

knowledge spiral process.

Each ba supports a particular conversion process

and there by each ba speeds up the process ofknowledge creation.

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The four Ba's proposed by

Professor Ikujiro Nonaka are as

below:

Originating Ba Interacting Ba

Cyber Ba

Exercising Ba


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Originating Ba

World where individuals share feelings, emotions,experiences and mental model.

An individual sympathises or further empathises.

Primary ba from which the knowledge creation process

begins and represents the socialization phase.

Physical and face to face experiences are the key to

conversion and transfer of tacit knowledge.

Nonaka emphasizes: Physical contact is important in

originating Ba to facilitate knowledge creation throughSocialization.


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Interacting Ba It is more consciously constructed, as compared to originating ba. Selecting people with the right mix of specific knowledge and capabilities

for a project team, taskforce, or cross-functional team is critical.

Through dialogue, individuals mental models and skills are converted

into common terms and concepts.

Two processes operate in concert: individuals share the mental model of

others, but also reflect and analyze their own.

Dialogue is key for such conversions; and the extensive use of metaphors

is one of the conversion skills required.

The importance of sensitivity for meaning and the will to make tacit

knowledge explicit is recognised. Here, interacting ba for collective

reflection is institutionalised in the company culture.

Initiators (conceptual leaders) are challenged to pursue their ideas.

Interacting ba provide a place for dialogue where people engage jointly in

the creation of meaning and value.


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Cyber Ba

It is a place of interaction in a virtual world instead of real

space and time. It represents the combination phase.

Here, the combining of new explicit knowledge with existing

information and knowledge generates and systematises

explicit knowledge throughout the organisation. The combination of explicit knowledge is most efficiently

supported in collaborative environments utilising information

technology.

The use of online networks, group-ware, documentation anddatabase has been growing rapidly over the last decade,

enhancing this conversion process.


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Exercising Ba

Exercising ba supports the internalisation phase.

Exercising ba facilitate the conversion of explicit

knowledge to tacit knowledge.

Focused training with senior mentors and colleagues consists

primarily of continued exercises that stress certain patternsand working out of such pattern. Rather than teaching based

on analysis, learning by continuous self-refinement through on

job training or peripheral and active participation is stressed.

Thus the internalisation of knowledge is continuously

enhanced by the use of formal knowledge (explicit) in real life

or simulated applications.

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