Two distinct views of the nature of clinical judgment are identified and contrasted. The dominant view that clinical judgment is a fully explicit process is compared to the relatively neglected view that tacit knowledge plays a substantial role in the clinician's mental operations. The tacit dimension of medical thinking is explored at length. The discussion suggests severe limits when applying...

In this paper we operationally define and measure tacit knowledge at the team level in the software development domain. Through a series of three empirical studies we developed and validated the Team Tacit Knowledge Measure (TTKM) for software developers. In the first study, initial scale items were developed using the repertory grid technique and content analysis. In Study 2, supplied repertor...

This paper examines the question of whether the tacit knowledge embodied in technology products limits its electronic commerce potential. The paper describes the knowledge embodied in a technology product, and the transfer of that knowledge to the customer. In particular, the relationships between Internet users/customers and Internet applications are explored. Two related small-scale case stud...

Clinical decision-making can be vastly improved with the availability of the right medical knowledge at the right time. This concept paper presents a knowledge management re-search program to (a) identify, capture and organize the tacit knowledge inherent within on-line problem-solving discussions between pediatric pain practitioners; (b) establish linkages between topic-specific pediatric pain...

Encapsulating explicit knowledge within large scale organisations is well understood and several commercial off the shelf applications exist that enable the implementation of efficient knowledge base management systems. This provides the organisation with added value and enables knowledge components to be re-used and freely transferred throughout the organisational enterprise, however a large a...

With the coming of knowledge economy era, The traditional product design knowledge can not fully meet the user’s demands for products. Improving the design quality of the product is the primary way to maximize the benefits, and the product conceptual design directly determines the quality of product design, The users’ tacit knowledge is the source of the product conceptual design, therefore, th...

A rigorous behavioral specification can greatly reduce risk by exposing ambiguities in requirements and making explicit otherwise tacit information. Such an external, or “black box” specification can be developed from behavioral requirements in a systematic manner through the process of sequence enumeration. This process results in an arguably complete, consistent, and traceable specification o...