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    Apresenta um estudo de caso sobre um time de desenvolvimento de produto em uma grande
    empresa brasileira, que aborda a criação do conhecimento, seu compartilhamento, e a
    destruição desse conhecimento, para mostrar a importância da motivação na Gestão do
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     Abstract                                                the creation of “Knowledge Creating
                                                             Companies” may be an insurmountable
     This is a case study of a new product                   endeavour for most firms. The issue of
     development team in one of the largest                  changing the management practices that led
     companies in Brazil competing in a high-tech            to successes in the past and resulted in the
     market. The first part of this study is about           current established power bases needs to be
     knowedge creation. A team with relevant and             addressed. This case study highlights the fact
     complementary backgrounds was formed.                   that most medium and large-size companies
     Team members were highly motivated by the               created in the “Industrial Era” will have to
     challenge they faced. They understood the               reinvent themselves in order to survive in the
     importance of having guiding shared values              “Knowledge Era”.
     and very quickly managed to create an open
     playing-field where information could be                Key words: Knowledge Management,
     shared and knowledge created. The second                Teams,      Learning Organizations,
     part is about knowledge destruction. Less               Organizations
     than one year after the team was formed,
     most of its original members had left the               Once upon a time, a group of young,
     company. A great deal of individual and                 successful, highly skilled, entrepreneurial and
     collective tacit knowledge disapeared. The              hardworking people got together. They came
     projects slowed significantly, moving                   to work in the New Business Department of a
     bureaucratically and with fewer tangible                very large company. Their mission? To pave
     results.                                                the company´s way into the digital world,
     What went wrong? To answer these                        where convergence is the catchword for
     questions, three aspects were examined: the             everything.
     relationship between the team and the rest of                Mr. Brown1 came first. He had been a
     the organization; the team’s leadeship,                 pioneer in the cable-TV business in the
     communication       and       decision-making           country, but got tired of it and fell in love with
     problems; physical layout; values of the                everything he read about digital media.
     organization; budgeting practices; etc. This            That´s where he wanted and needed to be.
     study shows how the challenges involved in


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He was very entrepreneurial and “hands-on”.               norms they would need to be successful.
He was also known for being quite impatient..             After lengthy discussions, they established
      Ms. Pink was the second to come. All                and wrote down their core beliefs:
her professional life had been spent in the                      Guiding value:
same company. She was young, very                               Commitment to quality in every activity:
dedicated and anxious to leave her number                 attention to details!
crunching days behind.                                           Team work:
      Ms. Purple liked everything that was                      - Results are everyone´s responsibility
cool! Everything had to be cool! She had                        - Knowledge sharing - Commitment to
professional and personal connections in the              agreed deadlines
creative world. Remember the words “brand”,                     - Support for individual creativity and
“positioning”, “briefing” and “campaign”? They            initiative
all made her day.                                               - Leadership based on individual
      Mr. Blue liked to think strategically. He           competence
was very self-confident and liked to play the                    Human relations:
role of “coach”. He was the most experienced                    - Respect for individual differences
of the pack and had occupied leading                            - Taking into account of personal
positions in top level national and                       objectives and projects
international organizations. He was, however,                   - Transparency in dealing with personal
at times too academic.                                    differences
      Mr. Green added the “life is not so                        Workplace
serious after all” spirit to the group. He used                 - Locus for the accomplishment of
to be a trader and therefore ended cooking                professional ambitions
up business cases for everything, though he               - Fun and personal growth are possible and
and everybody else on the team knew the                   desirable
cases were at most wild guesses.                          The description thus far presents what
      Mr. Gray was the engineer: a typical                appears to be an ideal initial scenario.
engineer. He once commented that the baby                 Indeed, the team got off to a great start and
in his wife´s belly had grown 515%. He was                made significant initial progress. The team,
everybody´s thesaurus for technical stuff and             and they can certainly be called a “team”,
minded his own business. Everybody liked                  worked hard towards their goals. More often
him.                                                      than not, both the team´s and the
      Mr. Red used to be the editor-in-chief of           organization´s goals were reached and
a magazine about internet. He got tired of                exceeded. The team members developed
writing about it and decided to help create it.           strong personal relationships with one
He was known for arriving late every morning.             another: they enjoyed their work and the
He wouldn´t and couldn´t change his                       projects they developed together. They very
journalistic ways.                                        often celebrated their successes together.
This group of people knew that the first                  The fact that teams form the basis of any
challenge in innovating was to create a highly            modern organizational strucutre is no novelty.
collaborative and effective team: a team                  It is interesting, however, to highlight that the
where information and knowledge would flow                team members became good friends. The
very quickly, where consensus would not                   importance of deeper, personal relationships
mean mediocrity and where the ultimate                    was not, until recently, fully recognized as a
goals of the corporation would prevail.                   predominant feature of new, emerging forms
Together, the team set about trying to                    of organization.
understand the kind of work environment and


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More and more, in our opinion, management                world”, seemed, in itself, enough to keep
literature questions one of the traditional              them motivated and alert. This is in line with
pillars of the bureaucratic organization: the            what has been learned from managerial
impersonal relationships among employees.                practices in Japan. There people are not
Various authors are strong advocates of the              hired for a specific position, but, simply to
importance of building deeper and more                   help their companies in whatever way their
meaningful relationships among employees2.               skills allow8. The combination of big
Zarifian3, on the other hand, distinguishes              challenges and a high degree of autonomy is
between two levels of cooperation: fragile and           one of the key components of “Knowledge
strong. The latter is becoming increasingly              Creating Companies”, as described in the
necessary for companies competing in more                breakthrough book by Nonaka & Takeuchi9. It
complex and uncertain markets. Stronger                  is also a highly important practice for
cooperation is characterized by the ability of           companies searching for ways to increase
team members to reach a higher level of joint            creativity. Procter & Gambles’ Corporate New
creativity based on more profound                        Venture unit is an interesting and succesful
relationships.                                           example10. Its stated goal is to “invent radical
The literature also shows that learning and              new products that would build the company’s
creativity depend mostly on intrinsically                future”.
motivated people, eager to learn through                 The first part of this tale, then, was really
social interactions, open to discussion and              about Knowedge Creation. A team with
willing to change their mental frameworks4.              relevant and complementary backgrounds
Moreover, it has been extensively argued and             was formed. Team members were highly
shown that innovation is increasingly                    motivated by the challenge they faced. They
dependent on the combination of different                understood the importance of having guiding

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skills and fields of knowledge5. These                   shared values and very quickly managed to
conclusions have led a number of respected               create an open playing-field where
authors and management gurus 6 to                        information could be shared and knowledge
enthusiastically embrace and argue for the               created. Their efforts were geared towards
search for diversity in staffing. They view              meeting several critical deadlines and
diversity in staffing as a key means by which            producing tangible products. They managed
companies can break away with traditional,               to introduce a highly innovative product into
linear ways of thinking.                                 the country. 4
Current theory also points to the importance             Less than one year after the team was
of top management setting ambitious goals                formed, five of its original members had left
for their organizations. Goals create                    the company. One of them was fired after a
emotional tensions and prompt people to                  series of discussions with their boss (yes!
seek solutions regardless of their job                   they had a boss)11. The others quit one after
description7. Interestingly, the people in our           another within a period of four months. The
story did not have formal job descriptions,              creative juices stopped flowing. A great deal
only a widely defined goal. Their goal, “to              of individual and collective tacit knowledge
pave the company’s way into the digital                  evaporated from the organization. The


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development of the team’s projects slowed                 chain of command, aggravated the situation.
significantly, moving bureaucratically and with           Team members were perceived as dreamers,
fewer tangible results.                                   disconnected from reality and leading “the
                                                          good life”, while everyone else in the
What went wrong? How was this fountain of                 company worried about day-to-day issues.
knowledge destroyed?
                                                          Consider this situation in light of the way
To answer these questions, three aspects                  Sharp deals with innovation teams in Japan:
must be examined: the organization, the
leadership (“boss”) and the team.                         The Urgent Project System gives its
                                                          members, who could be recruited from any
The organization                                          section or department within the company,
                                                          the same “gold-badge” authority as corporate
The team developed a highly innovative work               directors during the project period. The gold
arrangement. None of the team members had                 badge, which is a gold-colored nameplate,
their own office. There were no subordinates              was called “kinbadge” (“kin” means gold) in
despite great differences in seniority. The               Japanese. “Kin” has the same sound as the
relationships between members could be                    first syllable of the world “urgent”, which is
compared to that of mentors and apprentices.              “kin- kyu” in Japanese. Wearing the gold
Leadership within the team depended more                  badge carries special significance not only for
on the nature of the challenge than on any                project members but for other employees at
sort of acquired or formal authority. This work           Sharp as well. Urgent Project members
structure radically differed from the very                develop a priority product or technology
hierachical, bureaucratic and “power-playing”             within a year or two. But since it is managed
traditions of the company. The contrast in                directly under the president, the project
working environments between the team and                 budget is unlimited. People with the gold
the very large organization of which they                 badge and their project are given top priority
were part, can be illustrated by the problems             in using company facilities or equipment and
that developed in three areas: 1.                         in procuring 5 materials...In addition,
Communication and decisionmaking; 2.                      members of the Urgent Project can be taken
Physical layout; 3 Budgeting                              from anywhere in the company at any time. A
                                                          department may be deprived of its best
1. Communication and decision-making                      people for over a year. (Nonaka & Takeuchi,
difficulties:                                             p.184, 1995)12

The organization’s other managers and                     2. Physical layout: search for a creative
directors did not really understand what the              environment
team was working on. As a result, the team
had a hard time setting up meetings with                  The team was unable to successfully defend
other departments. They also encountered                  their need for an exclusive meeting room
great difficulty trying to test their projects            despite the fact that team members decided
using operational resources not under their               to give up their private offices. They were
direct control. The team´s highly strategic               accused by other departments of being
activities were seen as lowpriority in the face           selfish and overly greedy for resources.
of urgent operational problems. The fact that             Gossip and bad feeling flourished. In the rest
communication within the organization was                 of the company, managers and directors had
usually expected to follow the traditional


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their own offices and shared meeting rooms:                distinguish the man who made $5 million last
it was felt that the team should do the same.              year in stock options, bonus and salary from
Let’s examine the team’s demand with what                  an executive assistant who probably will not
leading and widely recognized innovative                   make much in a lifetime. (p. 82)
companies are doing in terms of their office               In his new building, he wanted light, and so
layouts. Some companies have created                       he decreed that no desk should be more than
“skunk works” which have been recognized                   45 feet from a window, with each window
as an effective way to replicate the creative              rising more than 11 feet. He wanted
environment of small and start-up                          openness, so he decided that there would be
companies13. Others are even creating                      no private offices. He wanted kitchens,
special “creative spaces” within their offices,            because food draws people together. He
such as fitness centers in the case of Du                  wanted flexibility, so he asked for
Pont, basketball courts at Lotus, and game,                configurations that could be changed in a
humour and meditation rooms at Kodak and                   day. He wanted parking spaces for everyone.
Canon14. Descriptions of office spaces at Kao              And he wanted inclusion, so he insisted on
in Japan and Alcoa in the USA, greatly                     conference rooms of glass, so people could
emphasize how these spaces represent a                     see what was happening and not feel
clear departure from traditional office layouts.           threatened by a closed door. And he wanted
They also highlight the importance that the                escalators, because he believes they force
leaders of these companies place on                        people to interact, encouraging conversations
facilitating communications through open                   that lead to new ideas. Although the new
spaces. This is seen as critical for stimulating           building has elevators for freight and for
the exchange of tacit knowledge.                           people who can´t take escalators, they are
In the “open floor allocation” system, the                 hard to find. (p. 84) 6 (Trish Hall, The New
divisions and functional groups within Kao are             York Times Magazine, 13/12/98)
all configured around a large open space.
Half of the executive floor space, for example,            3. Budgeting: conflicting needs
is occupied with an open space called the
“decision-making room.” In fact, executives                To prepare its budget, the team was forced to
rarely stay in their own offices. Divisional               deal with accountants ill prepared to engage
heads hold meetings at the round table                     in any kind of discussion about the budgeting
located in one of the large spaces. In the                 and funding of highly innovative projects. It
laboratories, researchers do not have their                had to follow the same guidelines as every
own desks, but share big tables...Information              other department, as clearly stated in the
sharing and employee interaction are also                  company´s official budget directives. Thus it
accelerated through “open meetings”. Any                   was asked to:
meeting at Kao is open to any employee, and                     “Be very accurate about the kind of
top management meetings are no exception.                  resources (money and project) that your
(Nonaka & Takeuchi, p.172-173, 1995)15                     projects will need.”
As you rise, you pass cubicle after cubicle but                 “Use last year budget as a starting
no doors. Not a single door, except on the                 point.”
conference rooms and “privacy suites.”                          “Fill out pre-determined investment and
Finally you arrive at the top. Near the window,            expenses items.”
you find the office of the 63-year-old                     Obviously it is not wrong to have a business
chairman of Alcoa, Paul H. O´Neill. His                    plan or to try forecast capital expenditures
cubicle, like every other one in this building,            and needed resources. However, the
measures 9 feet by 9 feet. There is nothing to             execution of these must be put in the right


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context. It was wrong not to first undertake a             • He openly stated that he disbelieved in
higher level of discussion about the nature of             micro-management,        yet     demonstrated
the projects, markets and technologies. The                dramatic swings between total absence and a
uncertainties related to innovation and the                need to know the smallest of details about
different options available in terms of                    team activities. The result? A high degree of
budgeting philosophies/strategies should                   insecurity among team members.
have been better understood by all parties                 • Contrary to the style of team members, he
involved. This initial high level discussion               did not share information and did not involve
would, certainly, have led to a much more                  the team in making several important
consistent “number crunching” exercise. It                 decisions. This included decisions regarding
would also have resulted in a more                         the establishment of partnerships and the
meaningful and strategic budget.                           selection of critical vendors and consulting
Compare the conflicting needs of the                       partners. The result? Open distrust between
accounting department and the new products                 the boss and the team. 7
development team in this tale, with how                    • Although technologically savvy, the boss
venture capitalists go about funding                       clearly lacked experience and competence in
innovative projects. What kind of importance               other areas, such as content production,
do they place on financial spreadsheet                     marketing and finance. He was unwilling to
exercises? Such exercises are often the last               recognize his weaknesses, even when team
thing venture capitalists are interested in. Far           members were more qualified than he to deal
greater importance is given to the “game                   with specific issues. The result? His credibility
plan”, team skills, technological risks and the            and interaction with team members was
market potential of the venture16.                         severely undermined.

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The Leadership (“boss”)                                    • The boss demonstrated a lack of
                                                           confidence and a fear of upsetting other
The team shared the same boss, but the                     functional directors. He was not willing to
boss was not a member of the team. Oops!                   support his subordinates in any dispute with
The boss was a veteran from the IT industry                another department. The result? Great
and more senior than everyone else. He was                 conflict between the organization and the
responsible for personally building some of                team, and the team and its boss. More
the first PCs in the country. Despite having an            importantly, the projects which depended on
entirely technical background, the boss                    other corporate resources stalled.
boasted of his understanding of and                        Paul Woolner, from the Alliance for
commitment to the latest management fads,                  Converging Technologies, a think-tank in
such       as    “learning”    and     “network            North America concerned with the changes
organizations”. He believed strongly in his                that have been brought by the new
own leadership abilities.                                  knowledge paradigm, would certainly agree
His courses of action, however, lead one to                that “the boss” in this tale did not have the
believe otherwise:                                         appropriate leadership style. For him, the new
                                                           leaders “must be able to recognize if and


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when the requirements of the business                        attempts, to turn much of its tacit knowledge
outstrip the leader’s own competencies and                   into explicit knowledge. The many parts of the
management abilities. To act on this self-                   organization that did not have direct contact
awareness and bring in new leaders                           with team members, never learned anything
demands a high degree of personal courage                    about their activities. Over time, the team
and integrity”17.                                            found itself with increasingly limited leverage
The literature on leadership is, nonetheless,                of company resources and a growing sense
very extensive. There is, therefore, no need                 of isolation. Learning and delivering potential
to elaborate a great deal here about its role in             was significantly reduced.
the success of any venture. Some of the                      The team was also naive: it sought to pursue
leadership problems mentioned above may                      the creation of a culture radically different
be explained (though not justified!) by                      from the existing corporate culture without the
considering the amazing pace of knowledge                    “blessing” and strong tangible support of top 8
creation that occurs in high performing teams                management. Although a highly innovative
working in challenging environments. The                     loose structure gave team members the
boss was definitely not part of the free flow of             energy of a start-up company, it greatly
information and knowledge taking place at                    impaired their ability to build a foundation
the “shop”. He remained an outsider to this                  capable of withstanding the pressures of the
type of interaction, and consequently an                     corporate juggernaut. With hindsight, some
outsider to the team. This may have                          team members now feel that their attempts to
contributed and led to the feeling that the                  create a new kind of culture and
team’s activities were out of control.                       organizational structure within a larger
Regardless of the real root of the relationship              organization was doomed to fail from the
problems in this particular case; it is clear that           beginning.
the role of the leader is changing. The need
to create knowledge on a continuous basis                    ***
has profound implications for leaders: they
must focus on co-establishing visions;                       This tale is not a tale.
relinquish the need to know everything; and
let teams work with few, but relevant, points                It is the truthful account of recent happenings
of control18. This is no easy task. It demands               in one of the most prestigious companies in
more art and wisdom than in the “old days” of                Brazil. It serves to corroborate the following
Fayol’s plan, organize, coordinate and                       widely accepted idea:
control.                                                     In order for knowledge to be
                                                             systematically created, either the whole
The team.                                                    company must develop an innovative
                                                             culture, or, at the very least, top
Despite the creation of an excellent internal                management must recognize that teams in
learning environment and the successful                      charge of innovation must be inspired,
delivery of important tangible products, the                 protected, nurtured and provided with a
team also had its share of difficulties. For the             great deal of autonomy and resources
most part, the team was so enthusiastic                      (time, people and money).
about its own work that it didn´t pay enough                 This tale did not end with the end of the team.
attention to “selling” its projects within the               Although team members stopped working
organization. The projects became the                        together as a team, they did not sever their
team´s and not the organization´s. The team                  personal relationships with one another. They
failed, despite some formal communication                    became what some authors19 are calling a


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“Community of Practice”: a group of people –                              ***
not necessarily from the same organization -
who are bounded by an identity and defined            José Cláudio C. Terra é presidente da
and driven by learning values and                     TerraForum Consultores. Atua como
opportunities. As such, these individuals still       consultor e palestrante no Canadá, nos
share information, ideas and knowledge                Estados Unidos, em Portugal, na França e no
about the industry with one another. How do           Brasil. Também é professor de vários
they do it? The internet keeps them in touch          programas de pós-graduação e MBA e autor
with one another almost daily, even though            de vários livros sobre o tema. Seu email é
they don’t all continue to live in the same           jcterra@terraforum.com.br
country. From time to time, they also meet at
social and professional events. What is the
fate of this Community of Practice? Will it
continue indefinitely, die away, change to
include and exclude other individuals? These
are open questions with no easy answers.
Very recently, a whole team from the Silicon
Valley, unhappy with the direction of its
company, put itself up for auction on the
internet (www.ebay.com): initial bids were in
excess of US$ 3 million!
Literature on the new form of organizations is
abundant. It is mostly based,
however, on a few exceptions: high
profile innovative companies –                      /
Microsoft, 3M, Intel, Honda, Sony,
McKinsey - that are recurrently cited      Gestão do Conhecimento na Comunidade da Construção Civil
by the mainstream authors and              Knowledge Communities
gurus. This “inside story” has tried to
illustrate what we believe to be the
most common scenario. It has demonstrated
how the challenges involved in the creation of
“Learning Organizations” or “Knowledge
Creating Companies” may be an
insurmountable endeavour for most firms.
The issue of changing the management
practices that led to successes in the past
and resulted in the current established power
bases needs to be addressed. In fact,
“change management” may well become one
of the hottest issues in organizational theory
at the beginning of the next Millenium. Most
medium and large-size companies created in
the “Industrial Era” will have to reinvent
themselves in order to survive in the
“Knowledge Era”. As we know, however, old
habits die hard...


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A Tale of Knowledge Creation and Knowledge Destruction

  • 1. ! Apresenta um estudo de caso sobre um time de desenvolvimento de produto em uma grande empresa brasileira, que aborda a criação do conhecimento, seu compartilhamento, e a destruição desse conhecimento, para mostrar a importância da motivação na Gestão do Conhecimento e suas estratégias. Abstract the creation of “Knowledge Creating Companies” may be an insurmountable This is a case study of a new product endeavour for most firms. The issue of development team in one of the largest changing the management practices that led companies in Brazil competing in a high-tech to successes in the past and resulted in the market. The first part of this study is about current established power bases needs to be knowedge creation. A team with relevant and addressed. This case study highlights the fact complementary backgrounds was formed. that most medium and large-size companies Team members were highly motivated by the created in the “Industrial Era” will have to challenge they faced. They understood the reinvent themselves in order to survive in the importance of having guiding shared values “Knowledge Era”. and very quickly managed to create an open playing-field where information could be Key words: Knowledge Management, shared and knowledge created. The second Teams, Learning Organizations, part is about knowledge destruction. Less Organizations than one year after the team was formed, most of its original members had left the Once upon a time, a group of young, company. A great deal of individual and successful, highly skilled, entrepreneurial and collective tacit knowledge disapeared. The hardworking people got together. They came projects slowed significantly, moving to work in the New Business Department of a bureaucratically and with fewer tangible very large company. Their mission? To pave results. the company´s way into the digital world, What went wrong? To answer these where convergence is the catchword for questions, three aspects were examined: the everything. relationship between the team and the rest of Mr. Brown1 came first. He had been a the organization; the team’s leadeship, pioneer in the cable-TV business in the communication and decision-making country, but got tired of it and fell in love with problems; physical layout; values of the everything he read about digital media. organization; budgeting practices; etc. This That´s where he wanted and needed to be. study shows how the challenges involved in ©TerraForum Consultores 1
  • 2. He was very entrepreneurial and “hands-on”. norms they would need to be successful. He was also known for being quite impatient.. After lengthy discussions, they established Ms. Pink was the second to come. All and wrote down their core beliefs: her professional life had been spent in the Guiding value: same company. She was young, very Commitment to quality in every activity: dedicated and anxious to leave her number attention to details! crunching days behind. Team work: Ms. Purple liked everything that was - Results are everyone´s responsibility cool! Everything had to be cool! She had - Knowledge sharing - Commitment to professional and personal connections in the agreed deadlines creative world. Remember the words “brand”, - Support for individual creativity and “positioning”, “briefing” and “campaign”? They initiative all made her day. - Leadership based on individual Mr. Blue liked to think strategically. He competence was very self-confident and liked to play the Human relations: role of “coach”. He was the most experienced - Respect for individual differences of the pack and had occupied leading - Taking into account of personal positions in top level national and objectives and projects international organizations. He was, however, - Transparency in dealing with personal at times too academic. differences Mr. Green added the “life is not so Workplace serious after all” spirit to the group. He used - Locus for the accomplishment of to be a trader and therefore ended cooking professional ambitions up business cases for everything, though he - Fun and personal growth are possible and and everybody else on the team knew the desirable cases were at most wild guesses. The description thus far presents what Mr. Gray was the engineer: a typical appears to be an ideal initial scenario. engineer. He once commented that the baby Indeed, the team got off to a great start and in his wife´s belly had grown 515%. He was made significant initial progress. The team, everybody´s thesaurus for technical stuff and and they can certainly be called a “team”, minded his own business. Everybody liked worked hard towards their goals. More often him. than not, both the team´s and the Mr. Red used to be the editor-in-chief of organization´s goals were reached and a magazine about internet. He got tired of exceeded. The team members developed writing about it and decided to help create it. strong personal relationships with one He was known for arriving late every morning. another: they enjoyed their work and the He wouldn´t and couldn´t change his projects they developed together. They very journalistic ways. often celebrated their successes together. This group of people knew that the first The fact that teams form the basis of any challenge in innovating was to create a highly modern organizational strucutre is no novelty. collaborative and effective team: a team It is interesting, however, to highlight that the where information and knowledge would flow team members became good friends. The very quickly, where consensus would not importance of deeper, personal relationships mean mediocrity and where the ultimate was not, until recently, fully recognized as a goals of the corporation would prevail. predominant feature of new, emerging forms Together, the team set about trying to of organization. understand the kind of work environment and ©TerraForum Consultores 2
  • 3. More and more, in our opinion, management world”, seemed, in itself, enough to keep literature questions one of the traditional them motivated and alert. This is in line with pillars of the bureaucratic organization: the what has been learned from managerial impersonal relationships among employees. practices in Japan. There people are not Various authors are strong advocates of the hired for a specific position, but, simply to importance of building deeper and more help their companies in whatever way their meaningful relationships among employees2. skills allow8. The combination of big Zarifian3, on the other hand, distinguishes challenges and a high degree of autonomy is between two levels of cooperation: fragile and one of the key components of “Knowledge strong. The latter is becoming increasingly Creating Companies”, as described in the necessary for companies competing in more breakthrough book by Nonaka & Takeuchi9. It complex and uncertain markets. Stronger is also a highly important practice for cooperation is characterized by the ability of companies searching for ways to increase team members to reach a higher level of joint creativity. Procter & Gambles’ Corporate New creativity based on more profound Venture unit is an interesting and succesful relationships. example10. Its stated goal is to “invent radical The literature also shows that learning and new products that would build the company’s creativity depend mostly on intrinsically future”. motivated people, eager to learn through The first part of this tale, then, was really social interactions, open to discussion and about Knowedge Creation. A team with willing to change their mental frameworks4. relevant and complementary backgrounds Moreover, it has been extensively argued and was formed. Team members were highly shown that innovation is increasingly motivated by the challenge they faced. They dependent on the combination of different understood the importance of having guiding "# ! $ ! % ! ! & $' ! !! ( ) $ !$! * + skills and fields of knowledge5. These shared values and very quickly managed to conclusions have led a number of respected create an open playing-field where authors and management gurus 6 to information could be shared and knowledge enthusiastically embrace and argue for the created. Their efforts were geared towards search for diversity in staffing. They view meeting several critical deadlines and diversity in staffing as a key means by which producing tangible products. They managed companies can break away with traditional, to introduce a highly innovative product into linear ways of thinking. the country. 4 Current theory also points to the importance Less than one year after the team was of top management setting ambitious goals formed, five of its original members had left for their organizations. Goals create the company. One of them was fired after a emotional tensions and prompt people to series of discussions with their boss (yes! seek solutions regardless of their job they had a boss)11. The others quit one after description7. Interestingly, the people in our another within a period of four months. The story did not have formal job descriptions, creative juices stopped flowing. A great deal only a widely defined goal. Their goal, “to of individual and collective tacit knowledge pave the company’s way into the digital evaporated from the organization. The ©TerraForum Consultores 3
  • 4. development of the team’s projects slowed chain of command, aggravated the situation. significantly, moving bureaucratically and with Team members were perceived as dreamers, fewer tangible results. disconnected from reality and leading “the good life”, while everyone else in the What went wrong? How was this fountain of company worried about day-to-day issues. knowledge destroyed? Consider this situation in light of the way To answer these questions, three aspects Sharp deals with innovation teams in Japan: must be examined: the organization, the leadership (“boss”) and the team. The Urgent Project System gives its members, who could be recruited from any The organization section or department within the company, the same “gold-badge” authority as corporate The team developed a highly innovative work directors during the project period. The gold arrangement. None of the team members had badge, which is a gold-colored nameplate, their own office. There were no subordinates was called “kinbadge” (“kin” means gold) in despite great differences in seniority. The Japanese. “Kin” has the same sound as the relationships between members could be first syllable of the world “urgent”, which is compared to that of mentors and apprentices. “kin- kyu” in Japanese. Wearing the gold Leadership within the team depended more badge carries special significance not only for on the nature of the challenge than on any project members but for other employees at sort of acquired or formal authority. This work Sharp as well. Urgent Project members structure radically differed from the very develop a priority product or technology hierachical, bureaucratic and “power-playing” within a year or two. But since it is managed traditions of the company. The contrast in directly under the president, the project working environments between the team and budget is unlimited. People with the gold the very large organization of which they badge and their project are given top priority were part, can be illustrated by the problems in using company facilities or equipment and that developed in three areas: 1. in procuring 5 materials...In addition, Communication and decisionmaking; 2. members of the Urgent Project can be taken Physical layout; 3 Budgeting from anywhere in the company at any time. A department may be deprived of its best 1. Communication and decision-making people for over a year. (Nonaka & Takeuchi, difficulties: p.184, 1995)12 The organization’s other managers and 2. Physical layout: search for a creative directors did not really understand what the environment team was working on. As a result, the team had a hard time setting up meetings with The team was unable to successfully defend other departments. They also encountered their need for an exclusive meeting room great difficulty trying to test their projects despite the fact that team members decided using operational resources not under their to give up their private offices. They were direct control. The team´s highly strategic accused by other departments of being activities were seen as lowpriority in the face selfish and overly greedy for resources. of urgent operational problems. The fact that Gossip and bad feeling flourished. In the rest communication within the organization was of the company, managers and directors had usually expected to follow the traditional ©TerraForum Consultores 4
  • 5. their own offices and shared meeting rooms: distinguish the man who made $5 million last it was felt that the team should do the same. year in stock options, bonus and salary from Let’s examine the team’s demand with what an executive assistant who probably will not leading and widely recognized innovative make much in a lifetime. (p. 82) companies are doing in terms of their office In his new building, he wanted light, and so layouts. Some companies have created he decreed that no desk should be more than “skunk works” which have been recognized 45 feet from a window, with each window as an effective way to replicate the creative rising more than 11 feet. He wanted environment of small and start-up openness, so he decided that there would be companies13. Others are even creating no private offices. He wanted kitchens, special “creative spaces” within their offices, because food draws people together. He such as fitness centers in the case of Du wanted flexibility, so he asked for Pont, basketball courts at Lotus, and game, configurations that could be changed in a humour and meditation rooms at Kodak and day. He wanted parking spaces for everyone. Canon14. Descriptions of office spaces at Kao And he wanted inclusion, so he insisted on in Japan and Alcoa in the USA, greatly conference rooms of glass, so people could emphasize how these spaces represent a see what was happening and not feel clear departure from traditional office layouts. threatened by a closed door. And he wanted They also highlight the importance that the escalators, because he believes they force leaders of these companies place on people to interact, encouraging conversations facilitating communications through open that lead to new ideas. Although the new spaces. This is seen as critical for stimulating building has elevators for freight and for the exchange of tacit knowledge. people who can´t take escalators, they are In the “open floor allocation” system, the hard to find. (p. 84) 6 (Trish Hall, The New divisions and functional groups within Kao are York Times Magazine, 13/12/98) all configured around a large open space. Half of the executive floor space, for example, 3. Budgeting: conflicting needs is occupied with an open space called the “decision-making room.” In fact, executives To prepare its budget, the team was forced to rarely stay in their own offices. Divisional deal with accountants ill prepared to engage heads hold meetings at the round table in any kind of discussion about the budgeting located in one of the large spaces. In the and funding of highly innovative projects. It laboratories, researchers do not have their had to follow the same guidelines as every own desks, but share big tables...Information other department, as clearly stated in the sharing and employee interaction are also company´s official budget directives. Thus it accelerated through “open meetings”. Any was asked to: meeting at Kao is open to any employee, and “Be very accurate about the kind of top management meetings are no exception. resources (money and project) that your (Nonaka & Takeuchi, p.172-173, 1995)15 projects will need.” As you rise, you pass cubicle after cubicle but “Use last year budget as a starting no doors. Not a single door, except on the point.” conference rooms and “privacy suites.” “Fill out pre-determined investment and Finally you arrive at the top. Near the window, expenses items.” you find the office of the 63-year-old Obviously it is not wrong to have a business chairman of Alcoa, Paul H. O´Neill. His plan or to try forecast capital expenditures cubicle, like every other one in this building, and needed resources. However, the measures 9 feet by 9 feet. There is nothing to execution of these must be put in the right ©TerraForum Consultores 5
  • 6. context. It was wrong not to first undertake a • He openly stated that he disbelieved in higher level of discussion about the nature of micro-management, yet demonstrated the projects, markets and technologies. The dramatic swings between total absence and a uncertainties related to innovation and the need to know the smallest of details about different options available in terms of team activities. The result? A high degree of budgeting philosophies/strategies should insecurity among team members. have been better understood by all parties • Contrary to the style of team members, he involved. This initial high level discussion did not share information and did not involve would, certainly, have led to a much more the team in making several important consistent “number crunching” exercise. It decisions. This included decisions regarding would also have resulted in a more the establishment of partnerships and the meaningful and strategic budget. selection of critical vendors and consulting Compare the conflicting needs of the partners. The result? Open distrust between accounting department and the new products the boss and the team. 7 development team in this tale, with how • Although technologically savvy, the boss venture capitalists go about funding clearly lacked experience and competence in innovative projects. What kind of importance other areas, such as content production, do they place on financial spreadsheet marketing and finance. He was unwilling to exercises? Such exercises are often the last recognize his weaknesses, even when team thing venture capitalists are interested in. Far members were more qualified than he to deal greater importance is given to the “game with specific issues. The result? His credibility plan”, team skills, technological risks and the and interaction with team members was market potential of the venture16. severely undermined. " ! ! ! ! ! '&) ! % !, $ - ! %$ . & & $ ! ! $+ The Leadership (“boss”) • The boss demonstrated a lack of confidence and a fear of upsetting other The team shared the same boss, but the functional directors. He was not willing to boss was not a member of the team. Oops! support his subordinates in any dispute with The boss was a veteran from the IT industry another department. The result? Great and more senior than everyone else. He was conflict between the organization and the responsible for personally building some of team, and the team and its boss. More the first PCs in the country. Despite having an importantly, the projects which depended on entirely technical background, the boss other corporate resources stalled. boasted of his understanding of and Paul Woolner, from the Alliance for commitment to the latest management fads, Converging Technologies, a think-tank in such as “learning” and “network North America concerned with the changes organizations”. He believed strongly in his that have been brought by the new own leadership abilities. knowledge paradigm, would certainly agree His courses of action, however, lead one to that “the boss” in this tale did not have the believe otherwise: appropriate leadership style. For him, the new leaders “must be able to recognize if and ©TerraForum Consultores 6
  • 7. when the requirements of the business attempts, to turn much of its tacit knowledge outstrip the leader’s own competencies and into explicit knowledge. The many parts of the management abilities. To act on this self- organization that did not have direct contact awareness and bring in new leaders with team members, never learned anything demands a high degree of personal courage about their activities. Over time, the team and integrity”17. found itself with increasingly limited leverage The literature on leadership is, nonetheless, of company resources and a growing sense very extensive. There is, therefore, no need of isolation. Learning and delivering potential to elaborate a great deal here about its role in was significantly reduced. the success of any venture. Some of the The team was also naive: it sought to pursue leadership problems mentioned above may the creation of a culture radically different be explained (though not justified!) by from the existing corporate culture without the considering the amazing pace of knowledge “blessing” and strong tangible support of top 8 creation that occurs in high performing teams management. Although a highly innovative working in challenging environments. The loose structure gave team members the boss was definitely not part of the free flow of energy of a start-up company, it greatly information and knowledge taking place at impaired their ability to build a foundation the “shop”. He remained an outsider to this capable of withstanding the pressures of the type of interaction, and consequently an corporate juggernaut. With hindsight, some outsider to the team. This may have team members now feel that their attempts to contributed and led to the feeling that the create a new kind of culture and team’s activities were out of control. organizational structure within a larger Regardless of the real root of the relationship organization was doomed to fail from the problems in this particular case; it is clear that beginning. the role of the leader is changing. The need to create knowledge on a continuous basis *** has profound implications for leaders: they must focus on co-establishing visions; This tale is not a tale. relinquish the need to know everything; and let teams work with few, but relevant, points It is the truthful account of recent happenings of control18. This is no easy task. It demands in one of the most prestigious companies in more art and wisdom than in the “old days” of Brazil. It serves to corroborate the following Fayol’s plan, organize, coordinate and widely accepted idea: control. In order for knowledge to be systematically created, either the whole The team. company must develop an innovative culture, or, at the very least, top Despite the creation of an excellent internal management must recognize that teams in learning environment and the successful charge of innovation must be inspired, delivery of important tangible products, the protected, nurtured and provided with a team also had its share of difficulties. For the great deal of autonomy and resources most part, the team was so enthusiastic (time, people and money). about its own work that it didn´t pay enough This tale did not end with the end of the team. attention to “selling” its projects within the Although team members stopped working organization. The projects became the together as a team, they did not sever their team´s and not the organization´s. The team personal relationships with one another. They failed, despite some formal communication became what some authors19 are calling a ©TerraForum Consultores 7
  • 8. “Community of Practice”: a group of people – *** not necessarily from the same organization - who are bounded by an identity and defined José Cláudio C. Terra é presidente da and driven by learning values and TerraForum Consultores. Atua como opportunities. As such, these individuals still consultor e palestrante no Canadá, nos share information, ideas and knowledge Estados Unidos, em Portugal, na França e no about the industry with one another. How do Brasil. Também é professor de vários they do it? The internet keeps them in touch programas de pós-graduação e MBA e autor with one another almost daily, even though de vários livros sobre o tema. Seu email é they don’t all continue to live in the same jcterra@terraforum.com.br country. From time to time, they also meet at social and professional events. What is the fate of this Community of Practice? Will it continue indefinitely, die away, change to include and exclude other individuals? These are open questions with no easy answers. Very recently, a whole team from the Silicon Valley, unhappy with the direction of its company, put itself up for auction on the internet (www.ebay.com): initial bids were in excess of US$ 3 million! Literature on the new form of organizations is abundant. It is mostly based, however, on a few exceptions: high profile innovative companies – / Microsoft, 3M, Intel, Honda, Sony, McKinsey - that are recurrently cited Gestão do Conhecimento na Comunidade da Construção Civil by the mainstream authors and Knowledge Communities gurus. This “inside story” has tried to illustrate what we believe to be the most common scenario. It has demonstrated how the challenges involved in the creation of “Learning Organizations” or “Knowledge Creating Companies” may be an insurmountable endeavour for most firms. The issue of changing the management practices that led to successes in the past and resulted in the current established power bases needs to be addressed. In fact, “change management” may well become one of the hottest issues in organizational theory at the beginning of the next Millenium. Most medium and large-size companies created in the “Industrial Era” will have to reinvent themselves in order to survive in the “Knowledge Era”. As we know, however, old habits die hard... ©TerraForum Consultores 8
  • 9. END NOTES Rodrigues, Priscila Martins Celeste - Rio de Janeiro: 1 Any resemblance between these characters and Campus, 1998 6 Among leading authors supporting the those of Quentin Tarantino’s film “Reservoir Dog” is not search for diversity are: - Hamel & Prahalad, op.cit. - pure coincidence. 2 Pinchot, E. & Pinchot, G., The End Leonard-Barton, op.cit. - Thomas, D. A. & Ely, R.J., of Bureaucracy & the Rise of the Intelligent Making differences matter: A new paradigm for Organization, in: Knowledge Management and managing diversity. Harvard Business Review, Sep.- Organizational Design, Myers, P. S. (ed.) Butterworth- Oct., 1996, p. 79-90 7 Among leading authors that have Heinemann, 1996 9 3 Zarifian, P., Travail et discussed the relationship between innovation and top Communication: Essai sociologique sur le travail dans management role in setting ambitious goals are - la grande entreprise industrielle. Paris, PUF, 1996 4 Collins, J. C. & Porras, J.I., Built to Last: Succesful Interesting discussions on learning and creativity Habits of Visionary Companies, Harper Business, 1994 related to the way people interact can be found in the - Davenport, T & Pusak, L. Working knowledge: how following pieces of work: - Amabile, T. M. How to Kill organizations manage what they know, HBS Press, Creativity, Harvard Business Review, Sep-Oct, 1998, p. Boston, 1998 - Nonaka, I. & Takeuchi,H. The 77-87 - Argyris, C., Double loop learning in Knowledge-creating company: how Japanese organizations, Harvard Business Review, Sep.-Oct., companies create the dynamics of innovation, Oxford 1977, p. 115-125 - Leonard-Barton, D. Wellsprings of University Press, New York, 1995 - Quinn et alii knowledge: builiding and sustaining the sources of Innovation explosion: using intellect and software to innovation. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, revolutionize growth strategies, The Free Press, New 1995 - Schein, E.H., On dialogue, Culture, and York, NY, 1997 - Senge, P.M., op. cit. 8 Ohno, T. Organizational Learning. Organizational Dynamics, p. Toyota production system: beyond large scale 40-51, Autumn, 1993 - Senge, P. M. The fifth Discipline: production. Cambridge, Productivity Press, 1988. 9 The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization. Nonaka, I & Takeuchi, L., op.cit. 10 Amabile, op.cit. 11 Currency Doubleday, 1990 5 The idea that innovation is Companies that create the future are rebels. They’re increasingly dependent on the combination of different subversives. They break the rules. They’re filled with skills and fields of knowledge is support by the work of people who take the other side of an issue just to spark the following authors: - Hamel, G.; Doz, Y; Prahalad, C. a debate. In fact, they’re probably filled with folks who Collaborate with Your Competitors - and Win. Harvard didn’t mind being sent to the principal’s office once in a Business Review, Jan- Feb, 1989, p. 133-139 - while (Hamel & Prahalad, 1994, p. 107). On the other _________ & Prahalad,C.K. Competing for the Future, hand, rebels in the company portraiyed in this tale Harvard Business School Press, 1994 - Hope, J. & either quit or were fired. 12 Nonaka, I. & Takeuchi, L, Hope, T. Competing in the third wave: the ten key op.cit. 13 Quinn, J. B. Managing innovation: controlled management issues of the information age. Harvard chaos. The McKinsey Quarterly, Spring 1986, p. 2-21 Business School Press, Boston, 1997. - Fleury, A.C. & 14 Kao, J. Jamming: the Art and Discipline of Business Fleury, M.T.L. Aprendizagem e Inovação Creativity, Harper Business, New York, 1996 15 Organizacional - as experiências de Japão, Coréia e Nonaka, I. & Takeuchi, T., op. cit. 16 Quinn, J.B., op. Brasil. São Paulo: Atlas, 1995 - Kanter, R.M. et alii cit. 10 17 Woolner, P., Designing the New Digital Innovation: Breakthrough Thinking at 3M, Du Pont, GE, Enterprise, in: Blueprint to the digital economy, edited Pfizer, and Rubbermaid, Harper Business, New York, by Don Tapscot, Alex Lowy and David Ticoll, McGraw- 1997 - Leonard-Barton, D., op.cit. - McGill, M.E. & Hill, New York, NY, 1998, p. 108 18 Some of the Slocum Jr., J. W. Unlearning the organization. authors with similar insitgths on how to control Organizational Dynamics, v.22, n.2, p. 67-79, 1993 - innovation projects are: - Davenport, T. & Prusak, L., Stewart, T. A. Capital Intelectual: A Nova Vantagem op. cit. - Nonaka, I. & Takeuchi, T., op.cit. - Quinn, J.B., Competitiva das Empresas. tradução de Ana Beatriz op. cit. - Pinchot, E. & Pinchot, G., op. cit. 19 Wenger, E., Communities of Practice: The Social Nature of Learning, Healthcare Forum: Jul-Aug 1996 ©TerraForum Consultores 9
  • 10. 0 /2 1 0 A TerraForum Consultores é uma empresa de consultoria e treinamento em Gestão do Conhecimento (GC) e Tecnologia da Informação. Os clientes da empresa são, em sua maioria, grandes e médias organizações dos setores público, privado e terceiro setor. A empresa atua em todo o Brasil e também no exterior, tendo escritórios em São Paulo, Brasília e Ottawa no Canadá. É dirigida pelo Dr. José Cláudio Terra, pioneiro e maior referência em Gestão do Conhecimento no país. Além disso, conta com uma equipe especializada e internacional de consultores. 3 # 5 0 0 / 7/ 1 4, 6 2 / ' 3 Gestão do Conhecimento e E-learning na Prática Portais Corporativos, a Revolução na Gestão do Conhecimento Gestão do Conhecimento - O Grande Desafio Empresarial Gestão do Conhecimento em pequenas e médias empresas Realizing the Promise of Corporate Portals: Leveraging Knowledge for Business Success Gestão de Empresas na Era do Conhecimento ©TerraForum Consultores 10