Week # 05

KNOWLEDGE CREATION AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT ARCHITECTURE

Knowledge creation is dynamic, a daily basis activity. It is responsible for the enhancement of success of an organization. Learning and innovation at work in organizations is a social phenomenon that requires communication across individual and organizational boundaries, collaboration, and knowledge and information transfer within and across organizational structures In organizational theory, knowledge transfer is the practical problem of transferring knowledge from one part of the organization to another. Like knowledge management, knowledge transfer seeks to organize, create, capture or distribute knowledge and ensure its availability for future users.

Transfer via Teams:

·         Knowledge can be created through teamwork

·     This knowledge can be transferred to others in a reusable format.    

Four modes of knowledge conversion were identified:

·        Tacit to tacit(Socialization)

·     Tacit to explicit (Externalization)

·     Explicit to explicit(Combination)

·        Explicit to tacit (Internalization)

Socialization                                                       

Sharing tacit knowledge through face-to-face communication or shared experience. Informal social intercourse and teaching by practical examples.

Externalization

Trying to convert tacit knowledge to explicit knowledge by developing concepts and models. In this phase tacit knowledge is converted to understandable and interpretable form, so it can be also used by others. Externalized and theoretical knowledge is a base for creating new knowledge.

Combination
Compiling externalized explicit knowledge to broader entities and concept systems. When knowledge is in explicit form it can be combined with the knowledge that has been filed earlier. In this phase knowledge is also analyzed and organized.

Internalization
Internalization means understanding explicit knowledge. It happens when explicit knowledge transforms to tacit and becomes a part of individual’s basic information. Cycle continues now in the spiral of knowledge back to socialization when individual shares his tacit knowledge silently. This is how amount of knowledge grows and the previous conceptions might change.