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SkillsNET

Michael L. Brown, SkillsNET Corporation, USA; Michael J. Kruger, U.S.


Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) USA

Capturing and managing tacit knowledge creates a collective


organizational intelligence capability that is the differential for high
performance enterprises. Traditional tacit knowledge capture methods are
labor-intensive, some of which include mentoring, interviewing and direct
observation that rely on the accuracy of those collecting the information.
The researchers set out to prove traditional approaches to capturing
knowledge assets could be replaced using Web 3.0 technologies. This
paper introduces an innovative approach to harvest, share and manage
tacit knowledge created as a by-product of normal cognitive and technical
work flow activities within a net-centric environment. The innovative proto-
type model, Most Important Knowledge and Expertise (MIKE), utilizes
network sensor, integrated semantic, natural language and computational
analysis technologies that incorporate the design of classifiers, corpus and
taxonomies to identify tacit knowledge embedded in workforce
transactional activity containing both formal content (policy, training, and
process guides) and unstructured content (emails, wikis, blogs, instant
messaging, and social media). Using this combination of tools and
processes to harvest tacit knowledge from network transactions and then
sharing it via a trusted social network offers human resource, learning and
knowledge management practitioner’s a new solution design and
enterprise tacit knowledge management capability. MIKE is a prototype
designed to promote tacit knowledge transfer and high performance using
a simple yet robust framework of Web 2.0/3.0 tools to improve expert
connectiveness and establish trust networks.

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ScienceDirect.

Link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/issue/59087-2010-999979995-
2182758

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Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 2, Issue 4, The 1st
Collaborative Innovation Networks Conference - COINs2009. Edited by
Kenneth Riopelle, Peter Gloor, Christine Miller and Julia Gluesing.

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