7597 Management 311 - Knowledge Management Short Paper I Tacit Knowledge What is Knowledge? “Knowledge is information that changes something or somebody — either by becoming grounds for actions‚ or by making an individual (or an institution) capable of different or more effective action.” — Peter F. Drucker in The New Realities. There are several types of knowledge‚ but this paper is going to specifically discuss Tacit Knowledge. Tacit knowledge is basically personal knowledge. It is defined as the
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Introduction The role of tacit and explicit knowledge in the workplace Elizabeth A. Smith The author Elizabeth A. Smith is Vice President of Summit Resources‚ Inc.‚ Houston‚ Texas‚ USA‚ and Adjunct Professor in Administrative Sciences‚ School of Business and Public Administration at the University of Houston Clear Lake. Keywords Knowledge workers‚ Information resources management‚ Motivation Abstract Knowledge plays a key role in the information revolution. Major challenges are
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processes. Yet tacit knowledge also underlies many competitive capabilities—a fact driven home to some companies in the wake of aggressive downsizing‚ when undervalued knowledge walked out the door. The marvelous capacity of the human mind to make sense of a lifetime’s collection of experience and to connect patterns from the past to the present and future is‚ by its very nature‚ hard to capture. However‚ it is essential to the innovation process. The management of tacit knowledge is relatively
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The role of tacit knowledge in innovation management January 2004 Ragna Seidler-de Alwis Institute of Information Science University of Applied Sciences‚ Cologne Claudiusstr. 1 50678 Cologne‚ Germany Tel.: ++49 221 8275-3387 Mobile: ++49 175 1861855 Email: ragna.seidler@fh-koeln.de Evi Hartmann A.T. Kearney Platz der Einheit 1 D – 60327 Frankfurt‚ Germany Tel: +49 69 9550 7550 Fax: +49 69 9550 7555 Mobile: +49 175 2659 514 Email: evi.hartmann@atkearney.com Hans Georg Gemünden Institute of Technology
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Tacit Knowledge Transfer in the Mentor-Protégé Relationship Abstract Organizations are faced with the challenge of retaining tacit knowledge. Mentor-protégé relationships are one area that can assist with this trial. Cognitive-style congruency on knowledge transfer in the mentor-protégé relationship and the effect of tacit knowledge transfer in these relationships can frame an information exchange. Strong relationships between mentors and protégés can prove to be an effective mechanism
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to promote conceptual understanding of the topic. The inclusion of apparatus such as magnets‚ coils and galvanometers in the concept maps suggests that scientific tools would be used as forms of representations to transform subject matter knowledge into knowledge suitable for conceptual understanding. The equations listed in the concept map represent ways of representing subject matter. Equations are symbolic representations of subject matter which when interpreted correctly can result in conceptual
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University interpreted that “to belong is to understand the tacit codes of the people you live with”‚ meaning that in order to be suitably linked to a specific crowd‚ you must understand their implicit codes and know to abide by them. Although some believe these tacit codes cease to exist among groups‚ I feel as though they have been implanted into every group within our society no matter what its size or purpose is. For example‚ one of the tacit codes I know far better than any other is girl code.
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Organizational Knowledge creation Knowledge creation is a dynamic capability that enables firms to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage on the market. The most important models elaborated for organizational knowledge creation are: Nonaka’s model‚ Nissen’s model‚ Boisot’s model and the EO_SECI model. The two predominant goals of organization are the generation and the application of knowledge‚ because the capacity to generate and apply organizational knowledge is the source of competitive
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A Critical Analysis of “Knowledge is Power” 1. Introduction The claim of “Knowledge is power”‚ made by Francis Bacon‚ has been universally well known. Originally‚ it was proposed to stress the importance of knowledge in science and an academic spirit because human were experiencing a major scientific revolution at that time and information technology is not as developed as now to spread knowledge. Now it has been recognised by a much wider range of fields. An interesting question is what
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head: The "Global" and the "Local" in Knowledge Management Victor De Jesus University of Mary Washington Introduction In a world were people with specialized skills are hard to find‚ corporations must find a way to hold on to their corporate knowledge. Many times this knowledge resides in the head of a person‚ which creates a situation when the employee decides to stop working for the corporation. A knowledge gap is created at the time of departure and it will require
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