What Is Explicit Knowledge?

Explicit knowledge, also known as coding knowledge, can be obtained through oral teaching, textbooks, reference materials, journals, patent documents, audiovisual media, software and databases, etc., so that they can be accessed through languages, books, texts, databases, etc. Coding is spread and easy to learn.

Explicit knowledge, also known as coding knowledge, can be obtained through oral teaching, textbooks, reference materials, journals, patent documents, audiovisual media, software and databases, etc., so that they can be accessed through languages, books, texts, databases, etc. Coding is spread and easy to learn.

Chinese name

Explicit knowledge

Foreign name

ExplicitKnowledge

Applied discipline

psychology

Explicit knowledge meaning

According to whether knowledge can be clearly expressed and effectively transferred, knowledge can be divided into explicit knowledge (Explicit Knowledge) and tacit knowledge (Tacit Knowledge).

Explicit knowledge is also known as explicit knowledge . Explicit knowledge refers to " knowledge that can be clearly expressed", that is, people can obtain it through oral teaching, textbooks, reference materials, journals, patent literature, audiovisual media, software and databases It can be transmitted through coding methods such as language, books, text, and databases, and it is also easy for people to learn. Including "knowledge that can be written in books and magazines."

Explicit knowledge

Japanese knowledge management expert Ikujiro Nonaka proposed the SECI process of mutual conversion of explicit and tacit knowledge:

The process of mutual conversion of explicit knowledge and tacit knowledge

Socialization is the process of generating new conscious knowledge by sharing experience

Externalization is the process of expressing tacit knowledge into explicit knowledge. Combination is the process of combining explicit knowledge to form a more complex and systematic explicit knowledge system. Internalization is the process of explicit knowledge. The process of transforming into tacit knowledge and becoming the actual ability of the individual and group of the company Table 1 The conversion relationship between tacit knowledge and explicit knowledge

1. Conversion of tacit knowledge to tacit knowledge.

This is the process of sharing tacit knowledge among individuals and the socialization of knowledge. Tacit knowledge is transmitted mainly through observation, imitation, and personal practice. Teacher-to-knowledge is a typical form of tacit knowledge sharing among individuals. The establishment of a virtual knowledge community with the help of information technology has created the conditions for the transformation from tacit knowledge to tacit knowledge in a wider range.

2. The conversion of tacit knowledge to explicit knowledge.

This is an explicit description of tacit knowledge, transforming it into a form that is easy for others to understand. The methods used for this transformation include analogies, metaphors and assumptions, listening and in-depth talks. Some current intelligent technologies, such as knowledge mining systems, business intelligence, expert systems, etc., provide a means for achieving explicit knowledge of tacit knowledge.

3. Transformation of explicit knowledge to explicit knowledge.

This is a process of knowledge diffusion, usually systematically and complicate the fragmented explicit knowledge. By integrating these piecemeal knowledge and expressing it in professional language, personal knowledge rises to organizational knowledge, which can more easily share and create organizational value for more people. Distributed document management, content management, data warehouse, etc. are effective tools to realize explicit knowledge combination.

4. The transformation of explicit knowledge to tacit knowledge.

This means that the explicit knowledge of the enterprise is transformed into the tacit knowledge of the members in the enterprise. In other words, knowledge is transmitted among employees in the enterprise. After receiving this new knowledge, employees can use it to work and create new tacit knowledge. Group work, middle school and work-based training are effective methods to achieve explicit knowledge tacitness. In this regard, there are also some collaboration tools, such as e-communities, E-learning systems, and so on. ^[1]

Method of explicit knowledge realization

1. Alleviate the pain of growth through standardized management. The premise of standardized management is to establish a standardized management system. The process of establishing and implementing a management system is itself a process of organizational learning. The written management system is actually the result of explicit organization knowledge. Only after an organization has manifested its own knowledge can it be relatively easily understood and accepted by its members, and it can provide more common language for communication and coordination among members of the organization.

2. Turn the tacit knowledge of individuals into common knowledge through the internal teaching system of department heads \ experts. It is the first step for explicit knowledge to have department heads or experts teach the lessons for pre-class filing. This requires overcoming a series of obstacles. The first is to manifest the unique tacit knowledge and share it with others. It is the nature of most people to conceal their own knowledge and to look at the knowledge from others with doubt. Secondly, those members of the organization who possess unique and critical knowledge will not easily share the knowledge they hold with others in order to maintain their special status, thereby objectively preventing the explicitness of the organization's knowledge. Therefore, it is a huge challenge for the organization to make the staff's personal knowledge resources explicit and realize the exchange and sharing between the members of the organization. The difficulty may be no less than the difficulty of communicating and sharing knowledge between competitors.

3. The implementation of a reasonable rotation system for posts is also a good remedy for explicit knowledge. Through the rotation of posts, on the one hand, the latecomers must summarize the success and failure lessons of the predecessor; on the other hand, they will aggregate and discard the previously scattered information, both of which are manifestations of knowledge.

4. Various forms of interaction and communication between superiors and subordinates of the organization are also a good form of expliciting knowledge, which is especially beneficial to expliciting the tacit knowledge of organizational executives.

5. Processization, formatting, and templating are the three keys to organizing tacit knowledge, especially experiential knowledge.