Author: ImmortalistImmortalist Date: Mar 5, 2008 09:58
On Mar 5, 7:27 am, TruthSlave home.com> wrote:
> Immortalist wrote:
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> > tacit knowledge is knowledge that people carry in their minds and is,
> > therefore, difficult to access. Often, people are not aware of the
> > knowledge they possess or how it can be valuable to others. Tacit
> > knowledge is considered more valuable because it provides context for
> > people, places, ideas, and experiences. Effective transfer of tacit
> > knowledge generally requires extensive personal contact and trust.
> >
> > Tacit knowledge is not easily shared. One of Polanyi's famous
> > aphorisms is: "We know more than we can tell." Tacit knowledge
> > consists often of habits and culture that we do not recognize in
> > ourselves. In the field of knowledge management the concept of tacit
> > knowledge refers to a knowledge which is only known by an individual
> > and that is difficult to communicate to the rest of an organization.
> > Knowledge that is easy to communicate is called explicit knowledge.
> > The process of transforming tacit knowledge into explicit knowledge is
> > known as codification or articulation.
> > ...
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