Converting tacit to explicit knowledge and vice-versa

Further to my earlier post on “Information versus Knowledge”, here is my take on the losses when tacit knowledge is converted to explicit knowledge.

Here are ways we build our own tacit knowledge from explicit knowledge that we read.

Corresponding KM tools are in the pink and light blue callouts. Any comments or suggestions for improvement?

Our development concepts may be THE problem

My previous two blog posts (F13- KM is for value creation: WHOSE value? and F14- Monitoring and evaluation of KM for development) point to a key criterion in KM for development: What do community members truly value?
In 2003, CCLFI.Philippines implemented a project on “Leveraging Best Practices” for UNDP. We documented best practices into manuals, and [...]

Information versus Knowledge

Hi Valerie, welcome to the club!
This is what I use to show the distinction between information and knowledge. I hope this helps.

I prefer the above operational definitions of “tacit knowledge” and “explicit knowledge” (I shy away from ontological and epistemological definitions because they tend to be too impractical and often deteriorate into useless debates).
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Managing knowledge

This is my first post - I am trying to follow the various uses of the idea of knowledge on the Giraffe, learning the local language as it were.  So I am asking,  whose knowledge/truth are we managing?  Our own?  A community’s?  A profession’s ?,  An organisation’s?  or emergent ideas that  no-one owns yet?  Or all of them? 
I am having some trouble with information-knowledge. I don’t [...]