Knowledge Creation - Knowledge Management View

Knowledge can be divided in both tacit knowledge, which involves senses, skills and intuition, and explicit knowledge, which is formulated and/or captured. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with epistemology. ... The concept of tacit knowing comes from scientist and philosopher Michael Polanyi. ... Intuition has many but close meanings across many cultures, including: Quick and ready insight seemingly independent of previous experiences and empirical knowledge Immediate apprehension or cognition Knowledge or conviction gained immediately and without detailed consideration The power or faculty of attaining knowledge or cognition immediately without thought and inference. ... Explicit knowledge is referred to the knowledge which has been articulated, codified and stored in certain mediums. ...

The knowledge creation process involves 5 steps:

• Sharing tacit knowledge
• Creating concepts
• Justifying concepts
• Building a prototype
• Cross-leveling knowledge

Knowledge Creation - Anti-Knowledge View

Terms like genius, creativity, innovation, creative problem solving, and knowledge creation have been historically studied and represented as loosely related topics. When appropriately understood, all of these terms can be encapsulated into a single cycle of knowledge and anti-knowledge as follows: A genius is a person with distinguished mental prowess. ... Creative (or creativeness) is a mental process involving the generation of new ideas or concepts, or new associations between existing ideas or concepts. ... Creative problem solving begins when knowledge and simply thinking about a problem fails. ...

1. Definition/Solution/Structure (Knowledge Context)

2. Question/Problem

3. Logical Operation (connects/structures/defines)

4. Result: Advanced Definition/Solution/Structure

In the anti-knowledge view of knowledge creation, all knowledge is structure and anything that is known can be expressed. According to this view, tacit knowledge is not knowledge at all, but collective questions that need to be assimilated into knowledge in order to be expressed. Explicit knowledge then, is knowledge storage which is a distinct knowledge interaction.

In this view four primary pillars contribute to intellectual advance in any society. These are:

• Knowledge structure – Knowledge itself. Knowledge is the structure of symbols and/or semantics chosen by a society.

• Knowledge interactions – The collective set of knowledge working tools/roles like knowledge creation or learning.

• Language – The chosen mechanism for knowledge structure transport.

• Anti-knowledge – The perceivable realm of questions in a cumulative sense. The unknown.

These four pillars work together cooperatively to advance society. The specific knowledge creation interaction occurs at the line between knowledge structure and anti-knowledge, which is the cutting edge.

See also

• Knowledge management
• Knowledge building

Knowledge management (KM) may refer[1] to the ways organizations gather, manage, and use the knowledge that they acquire. ... Carl Bereiter and Marlene Scardamalia created the phrase, Knowledge Building to describe what expert groups did when they created knowledge. ...

References

• The Knowledge-Creating Company: How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation. Ikujiro Nonaka, Hirotaka Takeuchi, Hiro Takeuchi. Oxford University Press; ISBN 0195092694; (May 1995)
• Enabling Knowledge Creation: How to Unlock the Mystery of Tacit Knowledge and Release the Power of Innovation. Georg Von Krogh, Kazuo Ichijo, Ikujiro Nonaka. Oxford University Press; ISBN 0195126165; (May 2000)
• Anti-Knowledge
• Knowledge Storage