Date:         	Friday, 22nd August, 2pm
Location:     	E6A room 357
Speaker:		Dr. Peter Busch
Title:		Tacit Knowledge and Its Potential 'Flows': A Case Study

Abstract:		
Tacit knowledge is typically contentious; the purists will rightly argue
that when knowledge is explicated it is no longer truly tacit. From the
point of view of a number of psychologists and knowledge management
researchers we could consider tacit knowledge to be codifiable to an
extent. It is this latter form of 'street smarts' that often differentiates
the workplace successful from those less so. This talk will examine the
concept of tacit knowledge and its potential 'flows' between ICT personnel
in a few Sydney firms. The talk takes a 'soft' KM perspective rather than a
hard 'AI' one. Tools and methodologies examined will include grounded
theory to discover 'meaning' or 'themes' from the literature, pyschometric
testing instruments at the level of the individual, Formal Concept Analysis
(FCA) for processing of data garnered from the testing instrument and
Social Network Analysis (SNA) as a means of determining knowledge flows.