Mills Scofield

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Vulnerability isn’t a sign of weakness or meekness but a trait of confident humility that allows us to learn.

Tacit Knowledge 131

Tacit Knowledge Kaplan Innovation 131

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The research shows that tacit knowledge is crucial to economic growth, and this is being undermined by virtual communication. A study from Oxford Economics found that $12.50 of additional revenue is generated for every $1 spent on business travel.

Travel 121

Travel Tacit Knowledge Airlines GDP 121

First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 18, 2013

He also developed methods of Cognitive Task Analysis for uncovering the tacit knowledge that goes into decision […]. He developed a Recognition-Primed Decision (RPD) model to describe how people actually make decisions in natural settings.

Tacit Knowledge 75

Tacit Knowledge Drucker Wilde Risk Management 75

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

This can be achieved by the provision of bite-sized learning, whether via tuition, mentoring, or learning from our peers in the kind of tacit knowledge exchange that has been the bedrock of knowledge management for decades.

Osborne 95

Osborne Development Tacit Knowledge Kaizen 95

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 11, 2019

” What’s more, this tacit knowledge exchange doesn’t have to involve hierarchical approaches, such as mentoring, as it was just as effective when people were paired with people at a similar level to themselves.

Tacit Knowledge 52

Tacit Knowledge Mentor Survey Innovation 52

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2017

We believe the old, “scalable efficiency” approach to knowledge needs to be replaced with a new, more nimble kind of “scalable learning.” ” To foster the latter, managers should understand five essential distinctions: Explicit versus tacit knowledge. Individuals versus workgroups and networks.

Tacit Knowledge 15

Tacit Knowledge Explicit Knowledge Skills Emotional Intelligence 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2011

Since knowledge assets do not each exist in isolation from one another, a powerful strategic opportunity lies in binding your tacit knowledge assets to your structured knowledge. Your ownership of the resulting unique knowledge network generates the rent.

Tacit Knowledge 14

Tacit Knowledge McKinsey Core Competence Skills 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2011

The first measures the degree to which knowledge is tacit and uncodified, versus explicit and codified. Highly tacit knowledge embodies deep, almost intuitive understanding that is hard to articulate and explain to others and that is rooted in concrete experience. To codifying tacit knowledge?

Knowledge Management 15

Knowledge Management Tacit Knowledge Management Licensing 15

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.

Tacit Knowledge 11

Tacit Knowledge Proposal Brainstorming Innovation 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

Codifiable knowledge — that which can be captured electronically without losing its meaning — can be stored on the web and shared with many, without the original author (professor) being involved in the sharing (teaching). We called it a codification strategy to knowledge sharing.

Education 8

Education Execution Tacit Knowledge Christensen 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Despite the media coverage of Boomers and how a tidal wave of retirements could impact business, many senior managers are kicking the can down the road, putting off the job of creating a system and process for capturing knowledge. Manager can avoid this by taking some steps now to prepare for the day when key workers leave.

How To 72

How To Tacit Knowledge Learning-by-Doing Intellectual Capital 72

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.

Tacit Knowledge 9

Tacit Knowledge Competitive Advantage Innovation PR 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

Having influential senior leaders — including men as well as women of color — serve as mentors, advisers, and role models provided emerging women managers with the tacit knowledge needed to navigate their company’s leadership structure.

Management 13

Management Tacit Knowledge Diversity Leadership 13

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Despite the media coverage of Boomers and how a tidal wave of retirements could impact business, many senior managers are kicking the can down the road, putting off the job of creating a system and process for capturing knowledge. Manager can avoid this by taking some steps now to prepare for the day when key workers leave.

How To 62

How To Mentor Tacit Knowledge Intellectual Capital 62

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.

Tacit Knowledge 12

Tacit Knowledge Festinger Organizational Behavior Self-aware 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

Even when optimizing to a transaction, they do so with tacit knowledge of what each transaction is worth. Publishers have traditionally sold those "things" to them in an environment that operates with fairly little friction. Everything fit on a spreadsheet, or through an ad network.

Advertising 15

Advertising Tacit Knowledge Media Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2017

Interactions are also vital for sharing knowledge across sites. As such, tacit knowledge can become more explicit; sharing information or best practices can become advantageous; and learning from one another’s common experiences can accelerate the spread of business efficiencies across the global organization.

Succession 15

Succession How To Tacit Knowledge Globalization 15

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. When acquiring companies, look for “enhancement deals:” prospects that fill in the gaps in your own capabilities; and pay attention to post-merger integration.

Productivity 10

Productivity Products IAM Company 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

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. Propagate intelligence and insights.

Innovation 8

Innovation Social Capital Tacit Knowledge Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

A handover period for retaining and transferring knowledge is a golden opportunity to ensure that all tacit knowledge from the founder is transferred to the new CEO and that there are no knowledge gaps. Minimize the handover period. The ideal handover period should be approximately two weeks.

CEO 8

CEO Tacit Knowledge How To Chief Technology Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

But single-location projects draw on a reservoir or shared tacit knowledge and trust that global projects lack. Many firms struggle to exploit the innovation potential of their global networks. That's partly because they manage global projects like traditional ones.

Innovation 15

Innovation Globalization Team Tacit Knowledge 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

But single-location projects draw on a reservoir or shared tacit knowledge and trust that global projects lack. Many firms struggle to exploit the innovation potential of their global networks. That's partly because they manage global projects like traditional ones.

Innovation 15

Innovation Globalization Team Tacit Knowledge 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Both steps require tacit knowledge. Creating printable files involves two steps: creating a three-dimensional volume model that can be printed, and “slicing” that volume model in the best possible way to avoid material wastage and prevent printing errors.

Tacit Knowledge 8

Tacit Knowledge Supply Chain Contract Manufacturing Biotechnology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2018

Intuition is a potent source of information, and research has demonstrated that among experts, tacit knowledge and gut instinct lead to rapid and effective decision-making. Actively seeking out flaws and weaknesses and doing something about them is a powerful means of reducing the fear of failure.

Entrepreneur 11

Entrepreneur Self-aware Mentor Learning-by-Doing 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2016

Numerous studies show that sharing stories is critical for facilitating the development of tacit knowledge, making sure questions are asked safely and frequently, and providing the opportunity for people doing similar work to share and strengthen their expertise.

Tacit Knowledge 8

Tacit Knowledge Learning-by-Doing Quality Leadership 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2015

Through countless hours of collaboration with the same coworkers and teams, veteran employees gain tacit knowledge that allows them to predict how colleagues will behave and anticipate how they will respond to everyday situations.

Tacit Knowledge 8

Tacit Knowledge Long-term Organization Call Center 8

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). In what the anthropologist Edward T. People from relatively low-context cultures like Europe and the U.S.

Tacit Knowledge 8

Tacit Knowledge Open-book Learning-by-Doing Resistance 8

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. Perilous, because bad data and hidden false assumptions can seriously mislead. So what should managers, especially leaders, do?

Tacit Knowledge 10

Tacit Knowledge Crisis Learning-by-Doing Information Technology 10

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. In addition to being highly efficient, the prototype was a marvel of embedded tacit knowledge. For one thing, Blue Sky was buying only select components.

Case Study 8

Case Study Technology Tacit Knowledge Engineering 8

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. Perilous, because bad data and hidden false assumptions can seriously mislead. So what should managers, especially leaders, do?

Tacit Knowledge 8

Tacit Knowledge Crisis Learning-by-Doing Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

"What if Enron failed not in spite of its talent mind-set but because of it?" What if smart people are overrated?".

Tacit Knowledge 15

Tacit Knowledge Long-term McKinsey Open-book 15

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. Some kinds of know-how, for example, are generally regarded as undigitizable.

Globalization 8

Globalization Tacit Knowledge Intangible Assets Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2018

The members of high performance teams have a high level of tacit knowledge about one another — in other words, they understand each other on a personal level that stretches far beyond knowledge of each other’s resumes. Trust and understanding can only build over time.

Tacit Knowledge 8

Tacit Knowledge Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing Talent Management 8