Tacit knowledge strategic use in organizations — A new model for creation, sharing and success (September 2016)

摘要

Tacit knowledge in many situation is as useful as-or maybe more useful-than explicit knowledge. It is usually acquired from employees' life-time experience and practical interaction with real-life work challenges. This paper discusses the importance of tacit knowledge in organizations in the new era, the strategic use of tacit knowledge as a competitive advantages, the effect of social networks and advances in communications in collection and conversion of tacit knowledge to explicit knowledge. The paper also proposes a new model for tacit knowledge creation, conversion, sharing and success.