Tacit Knowledge - Leverage Your People's Experience - Find A Way To Share It In the Organization

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TACIT KNOWLEDGE What Is It?
Topics On The Page - Knowledge For Sale - Education/Instruction - Tools To Capture Tacit Knowledge
Related Topic - Knowledge Maps

KNOWLEDGE FOR SALE

ExpertCentral An expert network. The money they make is commission-based when experts decide to charge for answers. However, you can get some answers free. Experts offer to answer questions and/or offer a proposal for work to do so. Experts are ranked. Primary investor is J. H. Whitney, one of the first private equity firms in the world, founded in 1946 by John Hay Whitney. J. H. Whitney's initial successes helped shape the development of the venture capital and private equity industries. Among them: Compaq Computer, Cypress Semiconductor, Minute Maid, Genetics Institute, Sungard Data Systems, and Bay Networks.

InfoRocket This company launched a site on the web to connect people with knowledge with people seeking knowledge. It plugs the site as a "place where human interaction gets you the exact answers you need when you need them. If you have answers, you can get paid for your experiences, know-how and information." You can bid on questions that match your interests and experiences. Founded in November of 1998 and based in New York's Silicon Alley, InfoRocket is a privately held company backed by venture funding from Prospect Street Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Garage.com, and Stan Shuman a senior executive at Allen & Company. Unfortunately this was one of the companies to go down in the dot-com era. No longer in business.

EDUCATION/INSTRUCTION

Scenario Playing Thinking through strategic alternatives not just one alternative for the future
The Merlin Exercise free form simulation and scenario planning. Imagine your firm is the leading organization in some date certain in the future and discuss how you got there, envision that time frame and walk back in time: describe key milestones you had to make/meet for success, assess your strengths and weaknesses and how you can compete to succeed.
Action Learning Work in teams and attack real problems.
Practice Fields Simulated competitive corporate laboratories, games often driven by computer algorithms and decision support systems. The safe environment permits many to become much better environmental scanners, anticipatory learners, and systems thinkers. [Source]
Knowledge Maps In this context, a step by step on how to deliver a solution. For more examples see link.

TOOLS TO CAPTURE TACIT KNOWLEDGE

LearnerFirst Transfer information in the minds of your people to explicit. Buckman Labs worked with them to develop their system. Their site is not online for some reason at this time.

Hyperknowledge Capture tacit knowledge in action.

Teltech Idea Generation and Management Tool. To spur innovation, team members are given ready access to existing ideas and internal and external information and expertise. Content is quickly delivered to users via a single, convenient interface. The application also incorporates an ideation process that helps knowledge workers make progress and “break through” when they have exhausted their initial output of ideas.