The SccoB Process: An Integration of the Exploitory and Exploratory Processes Through a Self-Sustaining Process of Knowledge Creation

Literature Review

As a field of study, knowledge management has existed for more than 30 years, beginning in 1993 (Girard, and Girard, 2015). In a presentation given in 2013 on the 21st anniversary of NetIKX, a network of information and knowledge managers, seven ages of information and knowledge management were presented (Skyrme, 2013). Over a similar timeframe that began with a telemedicine study in 1991, a parallel line of knowledge management research has been conducted. At its start, this research was influenced by the medical problem-solving researchers - Elstein, Schulman, and Sprafka (1978). A study of knowledge and cognition began with the works of Polanyi (1966), Newell and Simon (1972), and Simon (1985). However, it was the knowledge-creating company of Nonaka (1991 and 1994) and Nonaka and Takeuchi (1995) that revealed to us that we were knowledge management researchers.