Types of knowledge
Some knowledge can easily be explained in words, diagrams or
numbers, and can be communicated through speech or in documents.
This is referred to as explicit knowledgefsdf. Other types of knowledge
are personal, context-specific and hard to formalise and communicate.
Insights, intuition and hunches fall into this category, as do many skills
that require practice, such as riding a bike. These are referred to as
tacit knowledgeafad.
Along with the distinction between knowledge held by groups and
knowledge held by individuals, the concepts of tacit and explicit
knowledge allow us to distinguish between four types of organizational
knowledge shown below.