Numerous studies examining the role of tacit knowledge claim that it accounts for 80%–90% of an organization’s knowledge. However, because tacit knowledge is not codified and documented, this ...

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 ...

TAKE a long look at the Mona Lisa. How do you see her? As blobs of paint or as a woman with an enigmatic smile? Now explain how you came to see those blobs of paint as a smile. For your second mission ...

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 ...

One of a company’s greatest assets is the vast experience, knowledge and wisdom accumulated within the organization. This wealth of information—often called institutional memory or tacit ...

Global markets present tremendous opportunities to those who are able to sort out what's meaningful from the background noise. It also means asking the right questions, fine-tuning our investment ...

The significance of expertise passed on by direct contact— tacit knowledge — is moot. For the last two decades of the twentieth century, a cold war rumbled on between the laboratories of physicists in ...