Value Of Tacit Knowledge Research Articles

The Role of Tacit Knowledge in Influencing Leadership on Change Management

This paper explores the positive impacts of tacit knowledge in leadership on change management, focusing on organisational leaders and employees. The significance of tacit knowledge in influencing leadership on change management is critical since tacit information includes significant insights, experience and intuition that leaders possess. Using and exploiting this knowledge helps to improve decision-making, create successful change initiatives, and foster effective leadership during times of uncertainty and transformation. Regarding the influence of tacit knowledge on leadership in change management, there is a sizable knowledge vacuum. Although the value of tacit knowledge in a variety of organisational situations is becoming more well-recognised, little is known about how specifically it affects leadership during change management processes. This paper concludes that tacit knowledge in leadership provides insight into where theoretical models are and are not utilised. A successful change agent will make decisions based on intuition. Tacit knowledge is valuable, and leaders must find methods to use it while also developing systems for capturing and sharing it throughout the organisation, such as through storytelling, communities of practice, or mentorship programmes. This article has eight recommendations for organisations, businesses as well as leaders regarding tacit knowledge handling during the process of change. This article employed secondary sources as methodology, and the collected data were analysed using text content to extract relevant insights.

Partneship is a constant of vitality Ivan Prokopenka`s and Grigory Skovorody`s

The study of the professional work of Ivan Prokopenko and Grigory Skovoroda under the conditions of martial law in Ukraine will contribute to the establishment of partnership in the organization of the educational process, and the improvement of the quality of professional training. The purpose of the article is to reveal the essence and ways of implementing partnership on the example of the life and professional activity of Ivan Prokopenko and Grigory Skovoroda. To achieve the goal, comparative historical methods were used – to reveal the key points of understanding of partnership by teachers. The methods of analysis, synthesis and generalization of historical facts are used to substantiate the ideas of partnership pedagogy. The retrospective method was used for creative interpretation of the results of the conducted research.In the article, the author revealed the idea of partnership based on synergistic and systemic approaches. Cultural relevance and the principle of historicism made it possible to characterize partnership as a dynamic phenomenon that is determined by social factors. The article emphasizes that the idea of "equal to equal" democracy is important in partner interaction, unconditional equality in the right to express one's position, respect for another point of view, trust and goodwill in communication and interaction are recognized. The value of tacit knowledge and experience, mutual demand is also recognized.In the article, the author substantiated that Grigory Skovoroda set an example of socially significant partnership and humanity in the Kharkiv Collegium, private teaching. The main positions of Grigory Skovoroda's pedagogical partnership are highlighted: personal dialogue in forms of educational interaction; friendly conversation, correspondence in extracurricular time to encourage self-discovery, self-immersion, self-analysis; simulation of life situations, choice situations with a projection for success.Value orientations of partnership pedagogy according to Ivan Prokopenko: respect, benevolence, trust, dialogue and distributed leadership. He approved the partnership in all forms of educational, educational, professional and research work at G.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University on the basis of the philosophy of the heart, humane pedagogy. The article states that in his activities, Ivan Prokopenko used the principles of trust and openness in professional communications, respect and recognition of the self-worth of each individual. He successfully applied the practice of distributed leadership, in all horizons of connections and activities of the university.Common aspects of the pedagogical partnership of Ivan Prokopenko and Grigory Skovoroda: careful attitude to the student, understanding of the self-worth of a person, cordocentric living of success and failure.As a promising direction for further research, we offer a comparison of the ideas of partnership in the work of Confucius and modern practices of partnership in educational institutions of Ukraine and China.

Inclusive and regenerative urban tourism: capacity development perspectives

Purpose Using case study analysis, this paper aims to examine the application of capacity development perspectives, critical towards urban tourism that is inclusive and regenerative. Design/methodology/approach The study design used a mixed qualitative methods approach underpinned by the inclusive tourism development framework following Scheyvens and Biddulph (2017). This comprised in-depth interviews, focus groups and observational research. A community-based approach was adopted in a diverse cultural and socio-economic field setting. Findings The findings demonstrate that people who are marginalised hold valuable tacit knowledge and unique skills that can complement expert tourism knowledge and contribute to the development of more sustainable places and inclusive communities. This finding challenges claims that capacity development must occur before their participation. Local government, alongside non-government organisations and community groups, were found to have a significant role to play in ensuring that residents and people who are marginalised are included in sustainable tourism development. Originality/value This study contributes to the burgeoning discourse regarding stakeholder capacity development and readiness for inclusion in urban tourism initiatives. Importantly, regenerative development approaches are applied within the gambit of capacity development making this a unique attempt to integrate stakeholders into the design and implementation of tourism planning processes that uphold inclusive and regenerative priorities.

A call to focus on farmer intuition for improved management decision-making

Mainstream agricultural research takes a rational approach to generate empirical, tangible knowledge for increased yields and sustainability. This approach has led to the development of technological tools to support farmers in their management decision-making, which, while helpful, are not able to factor in the complex, dynamic variables that motivate farmer decision-making. More importantly, farmers often do not adopt these tools as expected. Could a solution lie in considering other sources and types of agricultural knowledge? Some farmers report relying largely on intuition (knowing from within) to inform their practical management decisions, resulting in both qualitative and quantitative benefits. Intuition allows access to valuable tacit (informal, intangible) knowledge, which can be used to explore and apply more resilient agricultural practices. It is an immediate and valuable part of decision-making, and deserves more attention from both farmers and researchers. This paper discusses potential advantages, challenges to, and methods of mainstreaming farmer intuition, and presents appropriate methodologies for its development, emphasizing the need to expand the underlying ontology and epistemology of the mainstream scientific community.

Research on the value of invisible knowledge in “2 + 1” innovative design education of new engineering

Tacit knowledge is an important part of knowledge pedigree. “2 + 1” design innovative education is the latest talent training mode and design innovative education concept. According to the concept and characteristics of tacit knowledge, this paper attempts to explore the impact of tacit knowledge on “2 + 1” design innovative education, focusing on how to give full play to the value of tacit knowledge through studio cases.

Simple Practices to Facilitate the Flow of Valuable Tacit Knowledge During Biopharmaceutical Technology Transfer: a Case Study

Simple Practices to Facilitate the Flow of Valuable Tacit Knowledge During Biopharmaceutical Technology Transfer: a Case Study

What is needed by staff to implement PROMs into routine oncology care? A qualitative study with the multi-disciplinary team.

The aim of this study was to identify strategies to implement patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) into routine oncology outpatients' clinical care. Qualitative focus groups were conducted with staff from multiple disciplines using a semistructured interview guide, with supporting data collected in field notes. Data were analysed using a Directed Content Analysis guided by an implementation science framework. The synthesis of the extracted data aimed to identify key requirements which correspond to intrinsic enablers and barriers for implementation. 52 staff members from the multi-disciplinary team participated. Data extracted showed five key themes and three key requirements regarding implementation of PROMs. Staff would consider using PROMs if there was strong research evidence that demonstrates benefits for patient outcomes, if PROM data was relevant to current clinical practice, and if applied appropriately in the specific setting. These findings add pragmatic detail and new knowledge to the current evidence on pathways to PROM implementation. This data can be used to inform implementation of PROMs into health services. Staff have valuable tacit knowledge of what works in practice that offers a unique opportunity to increase successful implementation of a PROM intervention for patient symptom reporting.

DIKW Application on Knowledge Based Framework with Situational Awareness

Currently, there is no formal method of collecting valuable tacit knowledge especially on MILOBS which they gained through experiences and formal training skills. The problem arises when the MILOBS have come to the end of their service in which they will bring along the knowledge. Furthermore, these issues become crucial when the knowledge is not fully transferred to the new person in charge. Therefore, there is a need to extract the tacit knowledge through a systematic approach. The approach in developing a new framework as a guideline combines elements of Data Information Knowledge and Wisdom (DIKW) hierarchy. In short, DIKW hierarchy can help us to understand more about MILOBS’ tacit knowledge. The objective of this paper is to interpret knowledge and wisdom in the DIKW hierarchy into the knowledge based framework with situational awareness analysis. The findings of this study are to propose a new framework and to improve the traditional model of knowledge creation on Nonaka’s model by adding the element of situational awareness and wisdom.

Optimal location of a multinational corporation resulting from knowledge transfer

PurposeA multinational corporation (MNC) looking to locate within a cluster is mainly interested in gaining access to scarce and highly valuable tacit knowledge. The transfer of such resources first requires sharing a certain degree of architectural and component knowledge. The social, organizational, cultural, institutional, technological, and physical distances between a MNC and the new subsidiary, as well as its local partners, offer a good indication of the way the architectural and technological knowledge is shared. The purpose of this paper is to examine the transfer of systemic technological expertise (component tacit knowledge) that is incorporated into organizational practices (architectural knowledge).Design/methodology/approachThe mathematical expression of localization performance is inferred from a conceptual research that formulates hypotheses regarding the impact of these variables on knowledge transfer. The MNC chooses its location in such a way as to maximize this performance.FindingsThis research contributes to a better understanding of how knowledge transfer effects may interact with local effects, while explaining a subsidiary’s performance with regard to location.Research limitations/implicationsIn order to apply this model, one would need to numerically compute the variables of this model and the performance in order to obtain a numerical estimation of the variables, by the econometric methods, which intervenes in the performance. Then one could use this numerical expression of the performance as a specific criterion of localization. Indeed it would be sufficient to evaluate both architectural and component knowledge which could be exchanged as well as different distances and the motivation for each of possible localizations and to select the one which gives the maximal numerical value for the performance.Practical implicationsThe authors deduced from the mathematical model a simple decisional criterion for a manager in search of an optimal location.Originality/valueThis research provides an interpretation of the concept of knowledge embeddedness by showing that the effective transfer of architectural and component knowledge involves the prior sharing of a certain amount of this knowledge.

\u201cWe are toothless and hanging, but optimistic\u201d: sub county managers\u2019 experiences of rapid devolution in coastal Kenya

BackgroundIn March 2013, Kenya transitioned from a centralized to a devolved system of governance. Within the health sector, this entailed the transfer of service provision functions to 47 newly formed semi-autonomous counties, while policy and regulatory functions were retained at the national level. The devolution process was rapid rather than progressive.MethodsWe conducted qualitative research within one county to examine the early experiences of devolution in the health sector. We specifically focused on the experience of change from the perspective of sub-county managers, who form the link between county level managers and health facility managers. We collected data by observing a diverse range of management meetings, support supervision visits and outreach activities involving sub-county managers between May 2013 and June 2015, conducting informal interviews wherever we could. Informal observations and interviews were supplemented by fifteen tape recorded in depth interviews with purposively selected sub-county managers from three sub-counties.ResultsWe found that sub county managers as with many other health system actors were anxious about and ill-prepared for the unexpectedly rapid devolution of health functions to the newly created county government. They experienced loss of autonomy and resources in addition to confused lines of accountability within the health system. However, they harnessed individual, team and stakeholder resources to maintain their jobs, and continued to play a central role in supporting peripheral facility managers to cope with change.ConclusionsOur study illustrates the importance in accelerated devolution contexts for: 1) mid-level managers to adopt new ways of working and engagement with higher and lower levels in the system; 2) clear lines of communication during reforms to these actors and 3) anticipating and managing the effect of change on intangible software issues such as trust and motivation. More broadly, we show the value of examining organisational change from the perspective of key actors within the system, and highlight the importance in times of rapid change of drawing upon and working with those already in the system. These actors have valuable tacit knowledge, but tapping into and building on this knowledge to enable positive response in times of health system shocks requires greater attention to sustained software capacity building within the health system.

When Practitioners Get It "Wrong": The Largely Underanalyzed Failures of Professional Tacit Knowledge

This essay describes how valuable tacit knowledge (personal knowledge) becomes explicit knowledge (recorded knowledge) and vice versa. It ascribes considerable responsibility for practitioner ignorance of community and organizational realities to American Library Association programs that lack required courses in marketing and advocacy, Finally, it describes how tacit knowledge becomes a basis for determining stakeholder needs and establishing the relationships necessary to develop relevant service programs and funding.

Location of a multinational corporation in a cluster

PurposeA multinational company (MNC) looking to locate within a cluster is mainly interested in gaining access to scarce and highly valuable tacit knowledge. The transfer of such resources first requires sharing a certain degree of architectural and specific knowledge. This paper aims to examine the transfer of systemic technological expertise (specific tacit knowledge) that is incorporated into organisational practices (architectural knowledge). To quantify the level of knowledge transfer involved, the present study defines the architectural distance between the MNC and the cluster.Design/methodology/approachThe mathematical expression of acquisition performance is inferred from a conceptual study that formulates hypotheses regarding the impact of these variables on knowledge transfer. The MNC chooses its location in such a way as to maximise this performance.FindingsApplying a mathematical model to knowledge transfer between two of the MNC units helps to determine if the locally acquired knowledge could benefit other units of the MNC.Research limitations/implicationsThe present study defines the architectural distance between the MNC and the cluster. This architectural distance is defined by a vector composed of social, organisational, cultural, institutional, technological and geographic distances between the new acquisition and its network of local partners, on the one hand, and the MNC, on the other. Knowledge transfer also depends on the business players’ trust and motivation. Further research through a quantitative study would be useful to improve the links between the proposed mathematical model and the efficiency of an MNC’s location within a cluster.Practical implicationsThe solution to the optimisation problem allows to put forward a simple decision criterion to assist a manager who has to face the problem of an optimal location choice.Originality/valueFirst, this study contributes to a better understanding of how knowledge transfer effects may interact with cluster effects, while explaining a subsidiary’s performance with regard to location. Second, it provides an interpretation of the concept of knowledge embeddedness by showing that the effective transfer of architectural and specific knowledge involves the prior sharing of a certain amount of this knowledge.

Providing a navigable route for acute medicine nurses to advance their practice: a framework of ascending levels of practice

This article conveys concerns raised by delegates at the International SAM Conference (Manchester, 2015) regarding how to advance nursing practice in acute medicine. It endeavours to capture the essence of ‘how to advance practice’ and ‘how to integrate advanced practice’ within the workforce structures of an acute medicine unit (AMU). It addresses the production of tacit knowledge and the recognition and integration of this to developing the nursing workforce. The current context of NHS efficiencies and recruitment issues emphasize the value of retaining tacit knowledge. Uniquely, this article offers an early conceptual framework through which levels of advancement and potential transition points to advance nursing practice in acute medicine are articulated. Determining how to advance requires identification of prior accomplishments such as, tacit knowledge, experiential learning, CPD, specialist courses and management experience. This requires nurses to make judicious decisions to advance their practice and the distinction between ‘amassing experience’ and ‘career progression’. It aims to stimulate thinking around the practicalities of advancement, the value of tacit knowledge and potential realization through the framework trajectory.

Managing business-to-business relationships under conditions of employee attrition: A transparency approach

Client-contact employee attrition can negatively affect client-supplier relationships, a problem all the more obvious within the knowledge-intensive service industry in which the untimely loss of employees adversely affects client relationships. From the client's perspective, employee attrition increases uncertainty over the perceived quality of service and results in the loss of valuable tacit knowledge from the provider. Drawing on case study materials, this paper seeks to develop a framework for understanding how firms can successfully manage client relationships despite threats of employee attrition. This paper suggests that relationship transparency based on the active transfer of information, knowledge retention and sharing, the implementation of succession plans, and timely intervention by the management, can reduce clients' perceived uncertainty, thereby fortifying a trusted relationship with their provider. This study offers a transparency-based conceptual framework that contributes to the business-to-business relationship literature within the knowledge-intensive service industry and discusses managerial implications.

Investment appraisal and evaluation: preserving tacit knowledge and competitive advantage

This research asks if intuitive investment appraisal and evaluation are appropriate under conditions of rapid change, uncertain outcomes, limited information, and when competitive advantage derives from tacit knowledge. Measures and rational approaches to appraisal and evaluation require distal knowledge made explicit in documents and techniques. Converting valuable tacit knowledge, residing in individuals and organisational context, into coded distal knowledge, which is more easily replicated, risks jeopardising the uniqueness of competencies and capabilities that underpin competitive advantage. The research investigates e–learning projects in higher education and finds little evidence of formal rational investment appraisal and evaluation in IS projects characterised by uncertainty and a lack of clear information.

Defacto and Deeded Intellectual Property: Knowledge-Driven Co-Evolution of Firm Collaboration Boundaries and IPR Stragtegy

Research on intellectual property has focused on formal legally recorded rights that we call deeded, most often measured by granted patents. Meanwhile, other "defacto" IP (mainly purposive secrecy and natural excludability) has become more important because of the increasing closeness of commercial technologies to cutting edge science. A "corporate-academic" model has developed and become institutionalized over the last three decades which emphasizes attracting the best and brightest scientists, providing them with a commensurate increase in autonomy including initiation of bench-level collaborations with top university scientists in which valuable tacit knowledge is transferred in both directions. We provide suggestive evidence that both firm and university scientists learn from these collaborations, e.g., both types of scientists experience sharply higher patenting rates once they have engage in university-firm collaborations. We propose and test two indicators of adoption of the corporate-academic model, whether or not the firm has ever: (a) co-authored an article with a university scientist and (b) applied for (an eventually granted) patent with non-patent references, where these references are used importantly to cite scientific articles and other scientific materials. Both were robustly positive and statistically significant across four measures of U.S. high-tech firm success (publishing, patenting, obtaining venture capital, and going public) for six broad S&T areas (bio/chem/med, information technology, nanotechnology, semiconductors, other science, and other engineering). Star scientists publication as or with firm employees, SBIR grants received, and citation-weighted patents and articles all played comparatively supporting roles in the empirical estimates. We concluded that the most successful high-tech firms have adopted a strategy of operating near the edge of the scientific envelope where high levels of tacit knowledge provide substantial natural excludability reducing or preventing entry of imitators.

Employing Wiki for Knowledge Management as a Collaborative Information Repository: An NBC Universal Case

The Web 2.0 era is nourished by the emergence of collaboration-conducive web applications, such as blogs, social networks, and wikis. Among these, Wiki has particularly revolutionized the way information is created and shared within a wide variety of organizations, such as educational institutions, research centers, and business enterprises. The technically undemanding nature of Wiki alleviates the burden of mastering cumbersome or complicated technologies, thereby encouraging personnel to share and archive valuable tacit knowledge with other members of the organization. As a result, Wiki helps mitigate the reluctance of members to share knowledge, resolving one of the most pronounced challenges in managerial efforts to capture, transfer, and store knowledge for the firm. This case study presents the inception of a wiki by the NBC Universal Software Engineering and Delivery Team and the expansion of the wiki to other departments in the firm, in particular to Peacock Productions, which specializes in programming of documentary TV programs. The Peacock Productions case demonstrates that Wiki can be a powerful tool for managing knowledge in business corporations, which must adapt quickly to changing market demands.

Traditional Knowledge and Innovation Management Strategies in India: Recent Trends

The country has been losing in the arena of claiming its intellectual property due to not documenting large traditional knowledge base residing in traditions, rituals, culture, society and its value system. People have failed in showcasing knowledge asset to the world, allowing them to capitalise on our knowledge. There is an urgency to sensitise people of India and make them aware of the value of tacit knowledge. This paper emphasises on the dual approach of preserving our ancient knowledge, while managing ongoing innovations of the citizens of India right from the grassroots level. The author is able to analyse the current scenario prevailing in India and establish that significant initiatives have been taken in recent past by several agencies, including the Government of India. These initiatives need to be mobilised in a systematic manner, as they are in nascent stage with teething troubles. Organisations, including libraries, as-well-as individuals will have to play a proactive role to re-establish India as the Knowledge Nation of the world.

The Research on Knowledge Brokering Mechanism and Methods based on FCA

In this paper, the mechanism of knowledge brokering is analyzed and three models of knowledge brokering are proposed, of which knowledge broker network model is the most important one. For the knowledge transfer process, the concept itself is valuable tacit knowledge and the structures of the concept's relations are also valuable tacit knowledge. The key in the tacit knowledge transfer based on knowledge brokering is switching the explicitness of know-how knowledge to the explicitness of knows-who knowledge and switching the search of tacit knowledge to the search of experts who own the needed tacit knowledge. Formal concept analysis is a very good knowledge visual tool. Concept lattices can be used to describe the experts' knowledge, and the concept lattices will help the knowledge brokers find the right expert quickly.

Reinventing the Role of the Professional Services Boundary Spanner: An Exploratory Study

This article explores attitudes towards the professional services boundary spanner in the light of anecdotal evidence challenging the view that the boundary spanner is pivotal to the client–firm relationship. Data were collected using case studies and one-to-one interviews. The findings suggest that clients prefer to bypass the traditional boundary spanner so as to liaise directly with agency creatives or account directors, whom they regard as the knowledge holders. However, the boundary spanner fulfils a necessary administrative role and holds valuable tacit knowledge. To prevent dissatisfaction and constant boundary spanner turnover, agencies need to increase boundary spanner autonomy and credibility.