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diciendo algo útil sobre el conocimiento y la imaginación

Prof. JC GastadorESADE & LUSEM

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Grandes empresas, PYMEs, Emprendedores, Empresas Familiares

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saying something useful about knowledge and imagination

JC SpenderESADE & LUSEM

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absence

Large Companies, SMEs, Entrepreneurs, Family firms

CUNEF Seminar Innovation

knowledge-absence

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funding

technology

labor

regulation

competition

alliance

U

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how do firms create value & raise productivity ?

• value creation? - imagination colliding with U

• no causal explanation of creativity

• how / on what does the imagination act ?

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knowledge absence U imagination added value✚

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imagination

• when the data does not drive the solution

• imagination where calculation fails

• complements our reasoning

• imagination acts on U to produce value V

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what U does knowledge address ?

• multiple types of knowledge / uncertainty

• explicit / tacit - know about / know how

• DIKW

• techne, phronesis, metis, …

• [(Ka.Kb) ✚ (experience)] Δ K

• [hypothesis.test] (scientific finding)

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kinds of U ?

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basic types of U

① ignorance

② indeterminacy

③ incommensurability

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state of U-1

K-truth ?

Ka

ignorance(science)

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state of U-2

K-truth ?

Ka

Kb

indeterminacy(game theory)

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state of U-3

K-truth ?

Ka

Kb

incommensurability(theorizing)

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resolving U - imagination

K-truth ?

Ka

Kb

Kc

= synth [Ka.Kb]

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example - Penrose

• “not so much the resources themselves as the services they provide the firm” (1959 p.25)

• disjunction between resources and services

• management team’s knowledge & imagination

resources

services

MTK

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BM

manage imagination ?

• U

• identify ‘knowledge-absence’

• move / anticipate constraints

• harness imagination of others

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imagination

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BM as collaborative U-resolving practice

• business-model as answer to … ?

• questions raised by situation’s U

• where are we ? - who are we ? - how to we get there ?

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Jeitinho = ∫ (trambiqueiro/malandro)Prof. Varvakis

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what questions ?

① Do we really have a BM with value-adding potential ?

② Can we resource it ?

③ Do we have a metric or means of measuring its viability other than trying it out ?

④ What threatens our BM’s viability - competition, tech change, labor turnover, etc. ?

⑤ What do we think changeable about our BM ?

⑥ How long do we expect out BM to remain viable ?

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knowledge & imagination value

• BM = firm = body of situation-specific K

• multiple types of knowledge-absence and K

• K created by imagination acting on U

• context of commitment / resources

• V-add - product of imagination

• 1st step - search out the ‘knowledge-absences’

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