Posted by Ross Hall on January 15, 1998 at 14:36:08:

In Reply to: Re: Knowledge Ecology: How Tacit Becomes Explicit posted by Tom Sudman on January 09, 1998 at 14:47:18:

Having being trained in Knowledge Engineering and spending the past 2 and a half years or so in the KM field, I have to say I have a real hard time with explicit knowledge.

A distinction which I use, which seems to go down well, is that what is termed "explicit knowledge" is actually largely in the domain of information and thus can be managed with Information Systems, Information Engineering and so on.

In the tacit domain this is true knowledge and here you need to look less at "management" of knowledge and more at "enablement" through appropriate environmental and cultural adjustments.

Not that knowledge cannot be "converted" in to information, it just takes more than most people realise!

I think Tom Peters summed it up with "Has anyone worked out how to manage imagination yet?" and I think a lot of that sentiment applies with knowledge.

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