(Nowy Sacz School of Business – National-Louis University, 2014) Lis, Andrzej
The aim of the paper is to analyze the knowledge creation and conversion processes
in military organizations using the SECI model as a framework. First of all, knowledge
creation activities in military organizations are identified and categorized. Then,
knowledge socialization, externalization, combination and internalization processes
are analyzed. The paper studies methods, techniques and tools applied by NATO
and the U.S. Army to support the aforementioned processes. As regards the issue
of knowledge socialization, counseling, coaching, mentoring and communities of
practice are discussed. Lessons Learned systems and After Action Reviews illustrate
the military approaches to knowledge externalization. Producing doctrines in the
process of operational standardization is presented as a solution used by the military
to combine knowledge in order to codify it. Finally, knowledge internalization through
training and education is explored.