Two Types of Knowledge
Tacit (Subjective) Knowledge
Insights, intuitions, and hunches
Knowledge of experience (body)
Not easily visible and expressible
Highly personal, hard to formalize, difficult to communicate or share with others
Rooted in individual’s actions and experiences, including ideals, values, or emotions
Explicit (Objective) Knowledge
Knowledge of rationality (mind)
Can be expressed in words and numbers
Easily communicated and shared in form of hard data, formula, codified procedures, or universal principles
Can be expressed in computer code, chemical formula, sets of general principles
In Nonaka and Takeuchi, The Knowledge-Creating Company 1995, page 71