Posted by Mezei on February 26, 1998 at 20:53:41:

In Reply to: Re: Knowledge Management and Learning Organizations posted by Robbert Northolt on February 26, 1998 at 10:54:28:

Hi Rob

I've been grappling with that distinction too. Here's a bit of a twist:

Knowledge, as Nonaka says, begins with the individual. All knowledge starts at the individual level. So accordingly, it begins with 'tacit' knowledge and eventually gets disseminated throughout the group via 'explicit' knowledge. Or as tacit knowledge gets disseminated, it becomes explicit. Now here's the twist. Explicit knowledge is 'tacit' information. Further, explicit information is 'tacit' data, and finally we have explicit data. So the two endpoints of this KM spectrum are tacit knowledge and explicit data. How all these trasfomations take place involves dynamics like bifurcation points, chaos into order, and context between value patterns. Ultimately the whole set of transfomations looks like this -

tacit knowledge ---> explicit knowledge ---> tacit information ---> explicit information ---> tacit data ---> explicit data

..individual..............group................individual..................group............. individual.........group.....

The thing is, explicit knowledge = tacit information. And explicit information = tacit data. What it involves, is that these pairs represent bifurcation points of the knowledge variety. Comments please.

Don

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• Re: Knowledge Management and Learning Organizations Robbert Northolt 03:23:28 2/27/98 (4)
  • Bits/Bytes and data/information/knowledge management Mezei 14:41:23 2/28/98 (3)
    • Re: Bits/Bytes and data/information/knowledge management Robbert Northolt 09:23:06 3/02/98 (2)
      • Re: Bits/Bytes and data/information/knowledge management Mezei 20:46:47 3/02/98 (1)
        • Re: Bits/Bytes and data/information/knowledge management Robbert Northolt 02:00:16 3/03/98 (0)

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