{"id":139540,"date":"2013-11-01T13:20:16","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T15:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=139540"},"modified":"2013-11-01T13:26:36","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T15:26:36","slug":"restless-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/restless-knowledge\/","title":{"rendered":"Restless Knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"personal collection<\/span><\/a>\u201cI am a semi-academic,\u201d acknowledges Jose Cl\u00e1udio Terra, engineer and businessman, whose restlessness caused some discomfort for the first readers of his doctoral thesis, submitted in 1999 to the Department of Production Engineering of the Polytechnic School at the University of S\u00e3o Paulo (USP). He recalls that one of the examiners asked: \u201cWho are you to propose this new model of knowledge management?\u201d The examiner was hoping that Terra would do more in terms of improving the visions of established authors rather than his own.<\/p>\n

Terra did not want the thesis on the proactive management of business knowledge to stay just in libraries forever\u2014and it did not; it came out in book form a year later. He wrote the second book, on corporate portals, while working in the United States and Canada\u2014the soaring growth of the fledgling Internet drew him there.<\/p>\n

Since the companies where he was working closed, he returned to Brazil and, based on the models of knowledge management he proposed in his 2002 thesis, he opened his own company\u2014TerraForum Consultants\u2014that combined consulting, creation, design, video and technology services.<\/p>\n

As an entrepreneur backed by academic knowledge, he knew from the beginning that one day he would have to sell the company. \u201cIt took ten years.\u201d In 2012, Globant, a multinational company that develops computer programs for companies with large audiences, acquired TerraForum. Terra stayed on as general manager and assisted with the transition phase.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we do in strategic and operational terms is to mobilize brains for managing knowledge in organizations,\u201d Terra explains. This means, for example, that we identify, improve and implement strategic knowledge to generate patents or new products.<\/p>\n

Terra writes scholarly articles, and more intensely, books\u2014the tenth, Dez dimens\u00f5es da gest\u00e3o da inova\u00e7\u00e3o (Ten Dimensions of Innovation Management)\u2014was published in 2012. \u201cSince earning my doctorate, I haven\u2019t stopped teaching MBA courses and giving lectures,\u201d he says. \u201cI never completely left academia and have always enjoyed the freedom of going my own way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Restless Knowledge","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1204],"tags":[228],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-139540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-careers","tag-engineering"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139540"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=139540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}