(2) Disentangling knowledge from its uses"

So I have got this stuff in my head, ideas, intuitions, different angles -- all kinds of stuff but when I come to describe it on paper it can get lost. There is no possibility of sticking a USB cable in my ear and then connecting to someone else's ear. We have to find a way of discussing it, playing around with the idea -- yes I like the idea of play rather than running it through a mass spectrometer on the off chance will find something meaningful and instead ending up with a shed load of metrics we have no idea what to do with. Then once we have the metrics we will need more analysis -- whoops, seems I got stuck in explicit -- how did that happen?

It's not easy this tacit stuff -- I mean my ideas are my ideas and you may not see them the same or hear them the same because you know something different. Yet you can add yours and between us we may find something better of explore something new.

But writing these thoughts, notions etc down doesn't always help -- so why do companies produce reams and reams and reams and reams of information -- no wonder the new measure of storage is called a terabyte -- it certainly brings terror and I'm sure it bites!

(2) disentangle -- I would if I could but I can't. Must be those wretched scientists determined to analyze everything -- now that reminds me of a really good (spot the modesty) piece of verse I wrote -- now I can't find it -- lost in the terabytes or probably stashed underneath the terrapin, but I've written to0 much anyway, been to explicitly explicit rather than explicitly tacit or is that tacitly explicit -- I'm overworking my neurons -- I'm having a Procter & Gamble moment -- do we need some kind of conditioner to disentangle all these loose ends? Perhaps we don't like dealing with messes?

Must away -- it's POETS day.

My take on the tacit thing is that KM has spent too much effort making a big deal of the difference between Tacit and Explicit knowledge. There's the stuff we "know" and there is the stuff that we can write down or communicate in some way (via the plug in the back of your head).

One of the jobs we have in "doing" knowledge management is discerning where the organization is operating and where it should be operating. This guides us to likely solutions.