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By: Things I learned this week – #2 | dougbelshaw.com/blog

Things I learned this week – #2 | dougbelshaw.com/blog — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 19:42:15 +0000

[...] blog and incorporated it into my Ed.D. thesis. He’s also got a useful post entitled Sharing tacit knowledge on how hierarchies aren’t great for emergent [...]

By: nick milton

nick milton — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 05:55:11 +0000

I like the Boston Square – very good.

You could also add a time dimension; over time, what seems complex becomes simple

By: Jon Husband

Jon Husband — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:56:38 +0000

But .. there can be “memories”, no ? And adaptation of those “memories” in various pertinent contexts, no ?

By: Harold Jarche

Harold Jarche — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:28:08 +0000

“If tacit knowledge is thought of not as a thing, but rather an understanding in the process and interaction with others, than there cannot be a “capturing” of the knowledge”

Excellent point, Virginia.

By: virginia Yonkers

virginia Yonkers — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:02:29 +0000

I have recently been doing a lot of reading on Rittal’s “Wicked problems” in the area of design. There were a number of articles in the Design Issues journal that addressed what you have outlined above (of course, I forgot to bookmark or save them when I was reading them, as it was not relevant for my current work). A good source, however, is Richard Buchanan’s Wicked Problems in Design Thinking (Design Issues, Spring, 1992).

Most of the articles I read noted how companies tried to make tacit knowledge explicit, yet lost the “knowledge” in the conversion process. Kolb’s idea of comprehensive and apprehensive knowledge does a good idea of explaining what happens in the process of making tacit into explicit knowledge.

If tacit knowledge is thought of not as a thing, but rather an understanding in the process and interaction with others, than there cannot be a “capturing” of the knowledge. Rather, tacit knowledge can be used to improve the organization.

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uberVU - social comments — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:12:56 +0000

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