Tacit Knowledge - how to grow, apply, share, and manage

Data, Information, Knowledge

Tacit Knowledge

How to grow, apply, share, and manage this tremendous source of innovation and sustainable competitive advantage

The greatest know-how is knowing how to
engage your subconscious mind
because it works millions times faster!

Explicit Knowledge	Tacit Knowledge
Can be formally articulated or encoded	Difficult to articulate; subconsciously understood and applied
Can be more easily transferred or shared	Usually shared through highly interactive conversation and shared experience
Is abstract and removed from direct experience	Knowledge-in-practice; developed from direct experience and action; highly pragmatic and situation specific

Creating Complex Innovations A-Z/360

The next-to-unlimited capacity of your mind to make sense of your previous collection of experiences and to connect patterns from the past to the present and future is essential to the innovation process.

The SUPERcreativity necessary for complex and/or mega- innovation derives not only from obvious and visible expertise, but primarily from invisible reservoirs of HIGHERsight and experience.

Tacit Knowledge as a Source of Competitive Advantage

Often you have to rely on intuition.

Bill Gates

Individual tacit knowledge is not publicly available except as embodied in people

Collective tacit knowledge is woven into the fabric of an organization and is not easily imitated. Tacit knowledge is deeply embedded into an organization's operating practices. Inaccessible from explicit expositions, tacit knowledge is protected from competitors unless key individuals are hired away... More

Application of Tacit Knowledge in Innovation

SuperCreativity and HIGHERsight are products of super-powerful subconscious thinking primarily, but tacit knowledge contributes to these super-capabilities as well.

Problem Finding

Intuitive discovery is often an insight into a different nature of a situation. When you create a radical innovation and need to think outside the box, tacit knowledge can help you reject an "obvious" solution to a challenge and ask wholly different 'Why? What If?' inventive questions.

Intuition

Awakening Questions

Insightful Questions

Ask Learning SWOT Questions

Problem Solving

Experienced workers can solve a problem more readily as they have in mind a pattern born of tacit knowledge which they can overlay on a particular problem and use to detect a solution.

Creative Problem Solvers with a beginner's mind can find an outside-the-box solution to a problem easier.

A child of five would understand this.

Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho
Marx

Organizational Barriers to the Sharing of Tacit Knowledge

Hierarchies create barriers to knowledge sharing when they implicitly assume that wisdom accrues to those with the most impressive organizational titles... More

Losing Organization

Silo Mentality

Human Barriers to Knowledge Sharing

Don’t be addicted to money. Work to learn. Don’t work for money. Work for knowledge.

Robert
Kiyosaki

How To Manage Tacit Knowledge

Three types of tacit knowledge – overlapping specific, collective, and guiding – need to be managed.

Managing tacit knowledge is a significant challenge in the business world – and it requires more than mere awareness of barriers. Mechanisms by which collective tacit knowledge is created and tapped include brainstorming, gamification, loose-tight leadership, and knowledge communities... More

Knowledge Management vs. Information Management

Divergent and Convergent Thinking Phases

Suspend Judgment

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