Tacit Knowledge

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  • Tacit knowing was coined by Polanyi It is important to remember that he he actually described a process not a form of knowledge .Or Know How not Know What or Know Why or embodied rather than theoretical knowledge. Know how is intuitive withour reference to information where as know what is about accessing knowledge or information.

Tacit knowledge is difficult to codify, verbaliz,e communicate, replicate and imitate.

Nonaka says it is non linguistic, non-numerical. They distinguish between technical tacit knowledge meaning skills and cognitive knowledge which refers to beliefs mental modes that are taken for granted P Baumard Tacit Knowldge in Organizations can be both an attribute of individuals and groups collectives and organizations. Compare with organizational tacit knowledge

Hildeth and Kimble (Duality of Knowldege 2002) say that th approach to try and convert tacit to explicit knowledge is flawed. Some knowedge cannot be captured - it is about people not machines and documents and that technical approaches miss the point. Communities of Practice intranets, resident experts and documment systems

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