Tacit Knowledge

The tacit aspects of knowledge are those that cannot be codified, but can be transmitted via training or gained through personal experience.

Egs - Making Bread, riding a bike, Bessemer process (perhaps), skiing........


Knowledge that is easy to communicate is called explicit knowledge. The process of transforming tacit knowledge into explicit knowledge is known as codification or articulation this is only sometimes possible and sometimes only to a degree.

Tacit knowledge is perhaps the icing on the explicit knowledge, giving it meaning.