ABSTRACT
In the late 1990s, visionary authors speculated about the emergence of knowledge management and potential solutions it might bring. Long the discussion target of philosophers, educators, and scientists, this form of knowledge resides in the minds of people. Formal knowledge management was initially focused on global or encyclopedic knowledge. Organizational knowledge is the knowing required by an enterprise to produce the products and services necessary to perform the work of the enterprise. Many of the issues surrounding the ownership of organizational knowledge is determined by when, where, and how employees created the knowledge. Explicit knowledge is any form of knowledge that has been captured or recorded using a formal physical mechanism. Sometimes considered as intuition or judgment, tacit knowledge may be the most important organizational knowledge in existence, and the most challenging to transfer. Some implicit knowledge remains tacit for political reasons.
