What is the most confronting and challenging question for the knowledge management community?
GeneralClass 10CBSEAnswered 25 May 2026
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The most confronting question is: "How do we capture and transfer tacit knowledge the knowledge people carry in their heads and hands before it walks out the door?"
Why this is so difficult:
- Explicit knowledge (documents, manuals, databases) is easy to store and share
- Tacit knowledge built from experience, intuition, and practice resists documentation
- Experts often cannot articulate what they know because much of it is automatic
Related hard questions the field wrestles with:
- How do you measure the value of knowledge?
- How do you motivate people to share what they know rather than hoard it?
- How do you prevent information overload while ensuring nothing critical is lost?
- Is AI a replacement for human knowledge management, or just a tool within it?
The deeper tension: knowledge lives in people, not systems. Any system that tries to manage it is already one step removed from the real thing.
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