Tacit corresponds to “informal” or “implicit”
- Exists within a human being;
- It is embodied.
- Difficult to articulate formally
- Difficult to communicate or share.
- Hard to steal and copy.
- Drawn from experience, action, subjective insight
Explicit formal type of knowledge, Explicit
- Explicit knowledge
- Exists outside a human being
- It is embedded.
- Can be articulated formally.
- Can be shared, occupied, processed and stored.
- Easy to steal or copy
- Drawn from artifact of some type as principle, procedure, process, concepts.
