Modes of Knowledge Conversion

• Conversion from tacit to tacit knowledge produces socialization where knowledge developer looks for experience in case of knowledge capture.

• Conversion from tacit to explicit knowledge involves externalizing, explaining or clarifying tacit knowledge via analogies, models, or metaphors.

• Conversion from explicit to tacit knowledge involves internalizing (or fitting explicit knowledge to tacit knowledge.

• Conversion from explicit to explicit knowledge involves combining, categorizing, reorganizing or sorting different bodies of explicit knowledge to lead to new knowledge.