Learn in the textbookInformation Systems That Integrate Management Resources (CRM, SCM, ERP, Knowledge Management)
DefinitionThe SECI model (SECIモデル) is a knowledge-creation model that describes, in four stages, how new knowledge arises as tacit knowledge (暗黙知), which is hard to put into words, and explicit knowledge (形式知), which can be expressed in text or diagrams, turn into each other.
ExplanationProposed by Ikujiro Nonaka and colleagues, the model takes its name from the initials of its four stages: Socialization (共同化), Externalization (表出化), Combination (連結化), and Internalization (内面化). One full cycle spreads knowledge from individuals to the organization and back to individuals, where it deepens, and the cycle repeats as a rising spiral.
AnalogyLike watching a senior colleague's technique up close, writing it down, combining those notes with others' to build a manual, and then practicing until it becomes second nature.
Memory hookRead S→E→C→I in order and it sounds like "seki". The letters follow the order in which tacit and explicit knowledge trade places.