A key distinction made by the majority of knowledge management practitioners is Nonaka’s reformulation of Polanyi’s distinction between tacit and explicit knowledge. The former is often subconscious, internalized, and the individual may or may not be aware of what he or she knows and how he or she accomplishes particular results. At the opposite end of the spectrum is conscious or explicit knowledge – knowledge that the individual holds explicitly and consciously in mental focus, and may communicate to others. In the popular form of the distinction tacit knowledge is what is in our heads, and explicit knowledge is what we have codified.
For further information see f. ex.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_management.
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“Knowledge exists to be imparted.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Knowledge management is a misnomer. A working definition of “knowledge” is: understanding gained from experience. Most knowledge is tacit, in people’s heads. Consequently, most knowledge cannot be managed.
What can be managed are an organization’s knowledge processes. Knowledge processes are embedded throughout the enterprise (e.g., strategic planning, decision making, marketing, hiring personnel). Every person in an enterprise participates in knowledge processes. Knowledge managers help the organization improve the effectiveness of its knowledge processes. Understanding and optimizing Knowledge Management processes gives an organization competitive advantage regardless of its market segment (qouted from KM Advantage homepage).
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Welcome to my blog on knowledge managment and intellectual capital. A very imprortant topics in the knowledge economy.
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