Knowledge in Learning Organisation Yogesh Molhotra describes the nature of knowledge in Inquiring Organisations, dealing with the human aspects, its dynamism, the implication of tacit and explicit, the subjective nature and its interpretation. Frank Blackler provides a comprehensive review of the range of ways in which knowledge has been interpreted. Conceptual Knowledge Elizabeth and Karl Wiig analyse the nature, learning and application of conceptual knowledge. Characteristics of Knowledge Verna Allee characterises the behaviour of knowledge with her twelve principles. The whole knowledge management movement is another escalation in the tyranny of the explicit.
Business is in the grip of an epidemic of explication.
That shy, elegant creature 'tacit knowledge' has to be captured - and then, presumably, domesticated, tamed and named. Strangely, he did not refer to measurement - but he might well have. Later he says - trying to articulate means restricting yourself to only that fraction of the information that can, approximately, be put into words. He take the example of facial identification, where out ability to distinguish faces far exceeds in complexity, our words to describe them. Dr. Randall Whitaker develops on Polyani's concepts of tacit knowledge.