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Defination
There are two primary types of knowledge: tacit and explicit. Tacit knowledge, resident in individuals, is typically developed from experience. It is unstructured and informal, making it difficult to communicate. Explicit knowledge is formal, structured and well documented. Thus it can easily be communicated. Discrete elements of explicit knowledge and information can be combined and analyzed for gaining perspective.
While both tacit and explicit knowledge can contribute to organizational knowledge creation, it is the interaction between the two that creates powerful knowledge patterns.
Need for Information Archive
Knowledge is largely tacit and resident in people's heads, yet most organizations do not enforce the process of making it explicit. Even as the Internet has fuelled a data and information glut, increasing globalization has led to a scattered enterprise in which knowledge is dispersed and information is difficult to aggregate. Telecommuting and virtual offices deter physical collaboration even further. And although computer networks have become ubiquitous, they are designed to connect people to structured information, while the content generated out of human interactions is largely unstructured.
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