Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 18, 2025

Then the other kind of data that organizations have that might give them a competitive advantage is all the tacit knowledge that is not documented anywhere but exists in the minds and experience of their best performing employeesthe people who are true experts and masters of their professional craft (be that sales or operations or legal work).

Tacit Knowledge 73

Tacit Knowledge Competitive Advantage Pharmaceuticals Magazine 73

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.

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Tacit Knowledge Kaplan Innovation 131

QAspire

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Here are the posts I wrote on my blog: Measuring Right: Understanding Goodharts Law How to Turn Conflict Into a Constructive Negotiation Mindset of Leaders who are Friction Fixers Supercommunicators: The Art of a Learning Conversation How to be a Boldly Inclusive Leader Invisible Costs to Consider in Decision Making The Iceberg of Organizational Knowledge: (..)

Tacit Knowledge 91

Tacit Knowledge Workshop Newsletter Learning-by-Doing 91

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 29, 2022

The data showed a clear gap in performance in these roles, with the authors arguing that this is probably because of the organizational knowledge gained in their first time at the organization. This tacit knowledge helps them to understand how the organization functions and the key relationships required to get things done.

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Tacit Knowledge Analysis Project Organization 122

Eric Jacobson

JULY 8, 2024

Then the other kind of data that organizations have that might give them a competitive advantage is all the tacit knowledge that is not documented anywhere but exists in the minds and experience of their best performing employees—the people who are true experts and masters of their professional craft (be that sales or operations or legal work).

Tacit Knowledge 81

Tacit Knowledge Competitive Advantage Pharmaceuticals Magazine 81

The Horizons Tracker

MAY 13, 2024

This will give them the experience and tacit knowledge required to succeed. Hire a masterbuilder – This is the most important heuristic, as it’s important to get a project lead with a proven track record of delivering the kind of projects you’re currently looking at.

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Project Tacit Knowledge Budgeting Construction 120

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 138

Travel Tacit Knowledge Airlines GDP 138

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.

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Tacit Knowledge Wilde Drucker Analysis 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.

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Osborne Development Tacit Knowledge Kaizen 117

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 13, 2020

The researchers hypothesize that the transfer of tacit knowledge and know how is crucial to economic growth, and business travel plays a key part in that process of repetition, imitation, and feedback.

Travel 84

Travel Tacit Knowledge GDP Globalization 84

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 18, 2021

They often possess a huge amount of tacit knowledge that can be extremely valuable if organizations can tap into it. Obviously, when they’re transferred to a new site, they take their extensive knowledge with them, which in turn helps to circulate that knowledge across the organization.

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Innovation Tacit Knowledge Creativity Idea Generation 88

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.

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Tacit Knowledge Survey Mentor Analysis 45

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 Intellectual Capital Newsletter 72

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.

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How To Tacit Knowledge Mentor Newsletter 62

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.

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Tacit Knowledge McKinsey Core Competence Document 16

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.

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Tacit Knowledge Explicit Knowledge Efficiency Directory 16

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 16

Knowledge Management Tacit Knowledge Management Licensing 16

Innovation Excellence

MARCH 4, 2020

billion people on planet Earth are composed of the same six elements: hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorous. billion people, no matter where they were born or what language they speak, are composed of 75% water, 23 pairs of chromosomes, and approximately 37.2 trillion cells. That’s the measurable stuff.

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Tacit Knowledge Storytelling Organization Books 72

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.

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Tacit Knowledge Proposal Brainstorming Technology 14

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 14

Tacit Knowledge Competitive Advantage PR Industry 14

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 17

Advertising Tacit Knowledge Media Brand 17

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 10

Education Tacit Knowledge Execution Christensen 10

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.

Globalization 16

Globalization Innovation Team First-mover Advantage 16

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.

Globalization 16

Globalization Innovation Team First-mover Advantage 16

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 15

Management Tacit Knowledge Diversity Leadership Pipeline 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.

IAM 14

IAM Products Productivity Company 14

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 Globalization Tacit Knowledge GDP 15

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 14

Tacit Knowledge Information Technology Crisis Trends 14

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 Venture Funding 15

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 12

Innovation Social Capital CRM Tacit Knowledge 12

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 16

Entrepreneur Self-aware Tacit Knowledge Mentor 16

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 9

Tacit Knowledge Resistance Open-book Learning-by-Doing 9

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 9

Case Study Technology Tacit Knowledge Engineering 9

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 Chief Technology Officer How To 8

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.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Tacit Knowledge Contract Manufacturing Biotechnology 8

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 Quality Leadership Pipeline Learning-by-Doing 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.

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Tacit Knowledge Long-term Call Center Company 8