Such consolidation frees from departmental silos both the assets themselves and the vital tacit knowledge that relates to them.

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The power of this form of tacit knowledge is embodied in the great Gothic cathedrals of Europe masterpieces of beauty, craftsmanship, and stability, all erected without blueprints or books.

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One concern is that the bank has lost too much of the tacit knowledge of the workings of the financial-services industry needed to be a good all-round regulator.

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This learning process leads to what we shall call tacit knowledge a feeling for what you are doing that is hard to put into words but easy to demonstrate in action.

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And to understand how this learning process operates, it is useful to look at the greatest system ever invented for the training of skills and the achievement of tacit knowledge the apprenticeship system of the Middle Ages.

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With an understanding of what tacit knowledge exists, how it is distributed across the organization, how people influence each other, which ideas are considered important, and useful metrics-based insight on all of this, organizations are much more readily armed to transform its structure, processes, or culture.

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It is about creating a Knowledge Environment that makes it natural for employees to create and share knowledge whether tacit or explicit.

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