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    Knowledge Management Involves Shari...  Oct 25, 2009
    Managing knowledge is to a large extent converting the tacit knowledge into explicit knowledge that can be shared in the organization. The explicit knowledge must then be internalized by the learners to produce desired results. (Suite101.com)

    Racine County is ripe for entrepreneurial growth  Jul 12, 2009
    In the recent study, The Coming Entrepreneurship Boom, the continuing decline of lifetime employment common in regions of the U.S. historically dominated by manufacturing, combined with the experience and tacit knowledge such employees carry with them, suggests places like Racine County could be on the cusp of an entrepreneurship boom. Finally, there exists a more focused effort on building an entrepreneurial ecosystem for the region. (Racine Journal Times, WI)

    In Kenya, corruption exposé is too hot to sell  Jul 2, 2009
    Many of Githongo's investigations led to fellow cabinet members, who appeared to be acting with the tacit knowledge of Kibaki himself. Githongo pressed on, leaking information to the press about a contract to a fictitious company called "Anglo Leasing." Anglo Leasing was a mere $54 million scam, but it was part of a larger pattern of fictitious procurements by Kibaki government ministers that added up to $655 million. (Christian Science Monitor)

    * Time to learn more about what makes good and bad leaders  Jun 16, 2009
    It produces the tacit knowledge that is crucial in a crisis. But experience and intuition can be supplemented by analytics. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)

    Analysis of companies internal and external environment vital  May 15, 2009
    More often than not, they are part of the tacit knowledge employees have: how to do things, the timing and processes adopted that outsiders cannot emulate, however hard they try. Nobody else can make Coke or Nutella, despite all the reverse engineering and spectral analysis by competitors. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- Business)

    IBM Touts Blackberry Integration  May 8, 2009
    "One set of collaborative roles for creative conversations involves a social structure between the speakers and a reader that can be compared to that of basketball players and coach. For example, a group of younger engineers might chose a dialogue document for conveying not only the discussion results but also the process to a senior engineer, because they can expect to get key advice, sometimes based on tacit knowledge, from that engineer," Manabu Ueda, visiting scientist at MIT on loan from... (Datamation)

    Will the new owner be able to rescue Satyam Computers?  Apr 16, 2009
    The quintessential artefacts in the IT services industry are specific development methods or processes, reusable codes, domain expertise and other sources of tacit knowledge. While this knowledge is unquantifiable in the strictest sense of accounting assets, their currency has increasing returns to scale. (India Times)

    Scientists Identify Neural Circuitry Of First Impressions  Mar 14, 2009
    (July 2, 2008) Intuition, or tacit knowledge, is difficult to measure, so it is often denigrated. A new dissertation in education research shows that there is a neurobiological explanation for how experience-based. (Science Daily)

    Survive the Recession, but not the 'Crunch'?  Feb 16, 2009
    This they did, with many subsequently taking their experience, skills and market knowledge to work for competitors, severely jeopardising Midland's ability to remain competitive through 'corporate amnesia' due to a failure to capture the tacit knowledge of their former employees. As a result, when the economy started to recover they were not strongly positioned to take advantage of market opportunities, or to fully meet customer's expectations of products and service levels with more junior... (PR Newswire)




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