Coming to the final part of the discussion on the contributing factors in building Corporate Tacit Knowledge Into A Strategic Asset, the most important among them is encouraging a wiki or Wikipedia culture. This means encouraging a culture of knowledge distribution via wikis. By doing so it develops an informal culture encouraging the staff to […]

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For want of a nail the shoe was lost.
For want of a shoe the horse was lost.
For want of a horse the rider was lost.
For want of a rider the battle was lost.
For want of a battle the kingdom was lost.
And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.
What we learnt way back in school […]

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Bringing back the discussion on the contributing factors in building Corporate Tacit Knowledge Into A Strategic Asset, for doing so it would involve people identifying someone, besides the subject matter expert, who possesses a need to know.
It could be in the form of a colleague, who will inherit the responsibility, a younger protégé or […]

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There is an interesting thought wave hitting the Indian economic scene. This thought was also echoed by a colleague who attended the recently held Defence Expo (www.defexpo.com)
The defence spending has moved away from being a highly regulated, government machinery driven system to being a rather competitive, innovation lead mechanism. Or at least is moving […]

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 Knowledge is normally defined as knowing or having any information on any particular thing/subject, while tacit knowledge is usually something which is fully understood but has not been imparted to others. In other words, it is something which has to be shared and distributed among one and all so that it becomes explicitly available. In […]

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  Rudyard Kipling once said, “Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.” We couldn’t help agree better.  Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding and mutual valuing.  This is the raison d’être for this space as well.  As the TWB World wider horizons and grows into a larger family, we realize, sometimes […]

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