People often define tacit knowledge as knowledge that you can’t put into words, but this negative definition doesn’t say what tacit knowledge is—just what it isn’t. Tacit knowledge is typically not ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. Andrew Muniz is a higher education consultant and a ...

Last month we explored how social collaboration platforms could breathe new life into knowledge management, bringing practical knowledge management back into vogue. Now I'd like to back up my argument ...

Sugarwork was founded as a software platform to preserve institutional knowledge from subject matter experts, particularly as employees departed. This supports succession planning and helps onboard ...

Capturing nuggets of know-how and individual experience presents a challenge for knowledge management, and the problem is compounded by an aging federal workforce, according to speakers at a ...

Scientific knowledge is explicit knowledge. It is precise, and thus can be explicated in mathematical formulas, textbooks, blueprints, procedures, and manuals. It can be converted into a system, ...

Bottom Line: Companies gain a competitive advantage when different divisions, such as sales and marketing, share non-quantifiable information. But to support the flow of this all-important tacit ...