Crossderry Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2014

I’ve alluded to the challenges of central planning and information gathering in previous posts ( here re: knowledge management and here re: complexity). Because knowledge is local, time bound, and often tacit, we can never aggregate it in a reliably meaningful way. Bostrom never seems to get Roberts’ point about the nature of knowledge. In other words, superintelligences’ inability to grok tacit knowledge may well be the reason they turn on us.

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Crossderry Blog

APRIL 15, 2011

Filed under: PMO Tagged: CBS News , Japan , Japan earthquake , Knowledge Management , Learning , tacit knowledge , Tsunami. PMO CBS News Japan Japan earthquake Knowledge Management Learning tacit knowledge Tsunami

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Crossderry Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Let’s take one challenge: there is a ton of tacit knowledge to be surfaced when marrying or divorcing organizations. Jonathan Becher (@jbecher)—SAP’s Chief Marketing Officer—has an excellent, longstanding blog named “ Manage by Walking Around.” I could not help but think of Jonathan as I heard another former colleague’s presentation at the 2015 PMO Symposium. Lou Pack from ICF International (@ICFI) served with me on PMI’s Global Executive Council.

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Crossderry Blog

AUGUST 21, 2014

This overhead can only be ameliorated a bit with tools and technique: there is effort inherent in making inarticulate or tacit knowledge explicit. Many firms that outsource want to reap all the savings from cutting costs on developers without accounting for the additional overhead they’ll need to manage developers who aren’t right down the hall. All the informal code reviews, requirements clarification, etc.

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Leaders. Better. Brighter.

JULY 29, 2011

Inability to Work Together and Transfer Knowledge. Our employees have not learned to work together effectively across organizational units to transfer tacit knowledge.

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Mills Scofield

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Listen to John Hagel, Saul Kaplan & Mike Waite Discuss on Trust Across America Radio. February 13, 2013. Does being vulnerable and trustworthy sound a bit paradoxical?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

There’s a lot of thinking in the research these days on the gap between the codified knowledge that is patentable and gets disclosed versus tacit knowledge that really exists in how you actually produce,” says Orly Lobel, a law professor at the University of San Diego specializing in intellectual property. It’s something different from just the aggregation of the knowledge in the patents.”.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2015

In today’s knowledge-based economy, companies and products are intricately specialized and experience counts for a lot. Tenure matters not only because years of work in a given profession yield deep specialist knowledge.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 18, 2013

He also developed methods of Cognitive Task Analysis for uncovering the tacit knowledge that goes into decision […]. Gary Klein, Ph.D., is a Senior Scientist at MacroCognition, LLC. He was instrumental in founding the field of Naturalistic Decision Making. ?He He developed a Recognition-Primed Decision (RPD) model to describe how people actually make decisions in natural settings.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

Most of the absorbed knowledge — local contacts and relationships, intelligence, insights, and so on — left with them. The tacit knowledge should be codified and shared through formal processes and protocols to avoid the risk that valuable information absorbed by the outpost doesn’t reach the mothership. In March 1848 San Francisco newspaperman Samuel Brannan announced that gold had been found in California.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Ensure knowledge capture and transfer. A critical factor in managing this transition is ensuring that relevant knowledge is documented to the greatest extent possible. Knowledge capture and transfer will assist in a smooth transition.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

Make tacit knowledge explicit by codifying the things you do in capabilities, but keep rethinking, improving, and reworking your codification. Ever since the idea of strategy came to the business world in the early 1960s, the goal of differentiation has been paramount.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2016

However, we don’t need to learn with others in formal training or development programs: we can architect our own opportunities to gain insight, knowledge, and skills that move us on an upward trajectory. dave wheeler FOR HBR. We rarely grow alone.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Think of tacit knowledge, which John Hagel III and John Seely Brown, who have thought deeply about information flows, argue is increasing rather than decreasing in value. In the aftermath of the UK’s Brexit vote and Donald Trump’s election in the U.S., globalization is seen as a political hot potato rather than a hot ticket to prosperity.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Further, algorithms cannot (yet, anyway) tap intuition — the soft factors that are not data inputs, the tacit knowledge that experienced managers deploy every day, nor the creative genius of innovators. Predictive analytics is proving itself both powerful and perilous.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

For another, Prime had embedded a great deal of "tacit knowledge" into some of the components — knowledge that was more "know why" than pure know-how. Hoping to give him a chance to show off his knowledge, Lin encouraged the Blue Sky engineers to ask questions about Prime's technology. In addition to being highly efficient, the prototype was a marvel of embedded tacit knowledge. One person wasn't smiling.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

But single-location projects draw on a reservoir or shared tacit knowledge and trust that global projects lack. When the knowledge base underlying a project is fragmented and project teams are scattered over multiple locations, miscommunication, conflict, and stalemates over crucial decision making are much more likely. Many firms struggle to exploit the innovation potential of their global networks. That's partly because they manage global projects like traditional ones.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

Even when optimizing to a transaction, they do so with tacit knowledge of what each transaction is worth. The media is already dissecting yesterday's Facebook event, where the company unveiled major new changes to their platform. Par for the course, really. Drama always accompanies any change to the Facebook site or platform.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

– How to Create and Implement a Knowledge Transfer Program, part 2 Posted by Ken Ball and Gina Gotsill on November 17, 2010 · 2 Comments Now that you’ve looked at your workforce (in The Boomers are Leaving! Regularly ask yourself these questions: Who will receive the knowledge?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

– How to Create and Implement a Knowledge Transfer Program, part 1 Posted by Ken Ball and Gina Gotsill on November 10, 2010 · 2 Comments The clock is ticking: next year, in 2011, the oldest of the 76 million Baby Boomers turn 65.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

But single-location projects draw on a reservoir or shared tacit knowledge and trust that global projects lack. When the knowledge base underlying a project is fragmented and project teams are scattered over multiple locations, miscommunication, conflict, and stalemates over crucial decision making are much more likely. Many firms struggle to exploit the innovation potential of their global networks. That's partly because they manage global projects like traditional ones.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2011

While seeking intellectual property rights (IPR) is entirely appropriate for your well-structured knowledge, putting serious effort into mapping the deep, implicit knowledge within your organization can prove equally valuable. Exploiting this deep knowledge entails strategically mapping the know-how usually just carried in the heads of individual employees, or by groups of your employees working together, in tacit, interpersonal organizational routines.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2011

Is your company investing in expensive knowledge management systems that are useless for making big, strategy decisions? The problem is that most current knowledge management efforts merely inventory the company's knowledge, without parsing out the knowledge that is strategically relevant.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Hall calls "high-context" cultures, like China, people tend to leave much unsaid in their communication, because they assume a lot of tacit knowledge and understanding (the context). Chinese managers and owners in Chinese-owned businesses play by the same rules.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2011

Both Roth and Tandon had worked as management consultants before seeking their MBAs, and they understand that tacit knowledge is critical for professional service companies. They also recognize that these organizations usually lose a lot of tacit knowledge because employees infrequently intersect with one another, and because time pressures in a projects-based world erode organizational insights.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

The other challenge is the amount of tacit knowledge involved in improving the performance of large systems — insight and understanding not easily captured or conveyed by numbers, formulas, or recipes. By definition, tacit knowledge comes with time — so outsiders must approach organizations with humility. Mayor Michael Bloomberg is getting his way and Cathleen Black will take over from Joel Klein as Chancellor of New York City Schools.

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Weekly Leader

MARCH 25, 2010

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

In his signature style, Gladwell drew on social-science research that documents the importance of practical skills ("tacit knowledge") over raw brainpower, how individuals who think they're smarter than others (and get treated that way) tend to worry more about acting smart than learning new things, and the dangers of what three psychologists have called "the dark side of charisma.".

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