Japanese concept ba:“provides energy, quality + place” for knowledge dynamics to emerge through physical space, virtual space + mental space

Re last tweet. Ref Nonaka, Toyama and Konno, "SECI, ba and Leadership". Long Range Planning 33 (2000) 5 - 34

@roundtrip @RalfLippold Thank you for favouriting 'ba' tweet. Nonaka et al also say it is "shared context in motion". Isn't that great?

@drmcewan @roundtrip - "ba" has a totally different meaning in German ;-) Yesterday I experienced what "ba" really means at #semper2

@RalfLippold Oooh, I would like to know more. Of course 'ba' as explained by Nonaka originates from a specific context. Needs interpreting.

@RalfLippold I still think the idea of energy generated through inetraction of physical, virtual + cognitive is interesting ...

@drmcewan @RalfLippold Thanks for the tweet. Do you have a favorite ref on ba? I'd like to learn more...

@roundtrip Apart from the one I tweeted earlier. I heard about the concept earlier this year but only now thinking about it. New to me :-)

@RalfLippold Aaargh. Am not on Facebook. I await your blog post :-)

@roundtrip: @drmcewan 2001. Building #Ba to Enhance Knowledge Creation and Innovation at Large Firms. Hitotsubashi University and MIT Sloan

@RalfLippold @roundtrip Thank you!!

@drmcewan Well, it's the Web! I'll ask friends in Japan. Off we go ...

@RalfLippold @drmcewan Thanks!

@roundtrip Looking forward to see what you turn up! I am looking at 'ba' within context of workplace design (physical and organisational)

@drmcewan Ditto. I'm fascinated by architectural metaphor for social spaces. See "Re-Placing Space" link & discussion http://bit.ly/ZiM1f

Nonaka on Ba in org theory. @drmcewan @roundtrip http://t.co/Rij5ilM

@socialtechno @drmcewan Thank you! Makes waking up at 5:45am Sunday morning worthwhile.

@susanfrost .... around how workplace and organisational performance.

@roundtrip @drmcewan Ba is a very hard word to Google. For philosophical origins, try "an enquiry into the good"

@socialtechno @roundtrip An enquiry in the good? Thanks Gordon. This also new to me http://amzn.to/i1Jh4w. Fantastic.

@socialtechno @drmcewan Nor is Wikipedia helpful.

@socialtechno @drmcewan Tons of refs on Ba disambiguation page include: "an abbreviation for Bathroom in real estate advertising"

I need to hop it. Too much enjoyable stuff going on :-) I leave you with Twitter as a place on the webhttp://bit.ly/eqF77l via @roundtrip

@roundtrip @drmcewan if you Google Nishida basho the relevance of results improves dramatically.

@roundtrip ba has 'associations' with Nonaka's KM work, it might also be worth searching out Nishida Kitaro

"BAH is... Bureaucratic, Administratively controlled, and Hierarchical organizations" -- Mark Federman http://bit.ly/gpyKNL

"Findin Ba" on @keepstream w/ @drmcewan, @socialtechno, @RalfLippold & 2 others http://keepstream.com/roundtrip/findin-ba #ba #e20 #KM

Searching for Ba - in the Google and other sense. http://keepstream.com/roundtrip/findin-ba #ba #e20 #km #E20SocialScience

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi at TED on flow http://bit.ly/PA5m7 Related in my mind to 'ba' - musing about this in my earlier tweets

"From BAH to ba: Valence Theory and the Future of Organization" Mark Federman, PhD Thesis http://bit.ly/ikmcRL #E20SocialScience #e20 #ba

"How should a facility for RAND be organized?.. it should even promote chance meetings of people" - John Williams, 1950 http://bit.ly/dZXKXO

"Put the people in one room... as soon as people have to cross a stairwell, communication drops precipitously" http://bit.ly/fQok0X

Designing social places: "... Twitter defines a place that escapes the scaling limits of the physical (cont) http://tl.gd/8ucdsv

Collaborative Networks and their Breeding Grounds http://is.gd/9cvYCF @drmcewan @roundtrip #ba

@socialtechno "Ba exists at many levels + and may be connected to form a great ba". So now we get to the VSM - interlinked viable networks!

Dialog on Leadership - Professor Ryosuke Ohashi http://is.gd/g0Wmvk @drmcewan @roundtrip #ba

@socialtechno "A holonic concept". I have had great fun on Twitter today. Thanks Gordon, Greg + Ralf. And everyone else.

From Knowledge-Creation to the Perfecting of Action: Tao, #Ba and Pure Experience as the Ultimate Ground of Knowing http://is.gd/7xputH

@socialtechno Thanks! Added to http://keepstream.com/roundtrip/finding-ba #ba

@roundtrip Thank you, Custodian!

@drmcewan @socialtechno @RalfLippold @chumulu And thanks to you all! Demonstrates #Ba is not limited to a physical place. #E20SocialScience

@roundtrip Was thinking similar #ba in action. Great fun ( even on a solemn day when terrible things are happening)

@drmcewan @roundtrip I think http://publicationslist.org/F.M.v.Eijnatten is worth investigating #Ba

@socialtechno Thanks for the #ba contributions!

In amongst the manga is a really nice piece on writing #ba in Kanji - 12 strokes, 3 components - http://www.mahou.org/Kanji/3E6C/

New blog post. Marks the end of a long period writing and reflection: Loosening the Taylorist Stranglehold http://bit.ly/fp2ZLU