Posted by Matt M on October 22, 2003 at 07:43:12:

In Reply to: Re: Purpose of this forum posted by Lauri Gröhn on October 20, 2003 at 14:36:44:

LG
"Fine. But some people want to speak about
"tacit knowledge""

Including yourself! or at least its non existence.

Please don't take this the wrong way but if you don't want to discuss Tacit Knowledge (whether you believe it exists or not)- don't, you don't have to post on threads. Start a thread based on your practice and experience and lets see if we can understand different perspectives instead of just argueing over semantics ;-).

If you do post on such threads there's no point just dismissing something as false if you are not going to propose an alternative theory. That is one of the basic tenets of scientific discovery. The purpose of forums like this is to share ideas for mutual understanding and benefit, not to just dismiss something out of hand without additional contribution.

In order for us to understand your perspective, as you don't believe in the concept of 'Tacit Knowledge', do you have a 'collective noun' for the type of 'knowledge' that is the:-

"background capability, partly unconscious and stemming from experience, that is used in problem-solving and other human tasks"
(Schreiber et al)

or do you not believe that humans have this type of 'capability' (whether you call it knowledge or not). If we do have this capability then surely one of the aims of Knowledge Management should be to develop tools to be able to elicit this knowledge and share it, whatever its name.

Can it be done? I don't know. Does that mean we shouldn't try and clarify what it is and how to get it? - NO

Oh and lets not get into a seriously long nit-picking thread like last time :-))Pleeease

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Follow Ups:

• Re: Purpose of this forum Lauri Gröhn 11:33:45 10/22/03 (16)
  • Re: Purpose of this forum Don Mezei 15:59:45 10/29/03 (15)
    • Why spin doctors love "tacit knowlodge". Lauri Gröhn 00:36:03 10/30/03 (14)
      • Blame the 'Spin Doctors' But Not the Pursuit of Knowledge Jim Nash 11:36:54 11/02/03 (0)
      • Re: Why spin doctors love "tacit knowlodge". Don Mezei 09:58:52 10/30/03 (12)
        • Re: Why spin doctors love Andreas AG 11:13:27 11/01/03 (11)
          • Managing something which has no definition? Lauri Gröhn 15:09:40 11/01/03 (10)
            • Re: Managing something which has no definition? Barry 20:55:46 11/01/03 (9)
              • Re: Managing something which has no definition? Lauri Gröhn 00:47:19 11/02/03 (8)
                • Does Everything That Humans Manage Have a Shared Definition? Jim Nash 11:33:21 11/02/03 (7)
                  • Management is all about what you cannot define! Andrzej Góralczyk 18:53:02 01/01/04 (0)
                  • One definition and still impossible Andreas A. Grønbekk 13:46:52 11/03/03 (5)
                    • Re: One definition and still impossible Carlos Perez 12:45:15 11/04/03 (4)
                      • Re: One definition and still impossible Andreas A. Grønbekk 13:54:17 11/04/03 (3)
                        • Know-How Lauri Gröhn 03:22:27 11/05/03 (2)
                          • Re: Know-How Andreas A. Grønbekk 16:19:03 11/05/03 (1)
                            • Re: Know-How sam 23:56:28 11/30/03 (0)

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