Posted by Akhil Shahani on December 17, 2001 at 00:54:21:

In Reply to: Tacit knowledge practices posted by Denham on December 16, 2001 at 22:07:55:

Hi Denham,

I agree with what you have to say.

However, I'm assuming that a large number of participants in our KM think tank may not be familiar with many of the works you mentioned.

It might be useful if you actually expanded on the specific ideas developed in the theories of the above authors. you might be able to get a more meaningful discussion as it would include many lay practitioners of KM (like myself!)

however, this does lead me to an interesting thought on promoting tacit knowledge within groups:

Often individual group members come into a discussion with their own developed experience, prejudices etc. A major barrier to effective sharing of knowledge is the "meaning" that each member assigns to a particular phrase or term (based on their individual experience).

An extreme example would be "Hillary Clinton should win the Martha Stewart Award for Good Houskeeping". The average person familiar with US popular culture would laugh derisively at this statement, to the bewilderment of those who are not so familiar. (this may be why humor often does not translate well across languages)

A good start to developing knowledge sharing is finding a way to have not only common language, but a general understanding among participants to communicate their thoughts as simplistically is possible.

take care,

Akhil Shahani

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