Armando E. Paladino, Kathleen M. Hargiss, Caroline Howard
{"title":"The Power of Unstructured Data: A Study of the Impact of Tacit Knowledge on Business Performance","authors":"Armando E. Paladino, Kathleen M. Hargiss, Caroline Howard","doi":"10.4018/IJSITA.2016100102","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Thisstudyexaminedtheincorporationoftacitknowledgeintocorporatebusinessintelligenceandits impactonbusinessperformance,specificallyanalyzingindividualproductivity.Businessproductivity inrelationtotheuseofknowledgehasbeeninvestigatedbutusingmacro-dimensionsnotspecifically oriented to individualworkers’productivity.Thisstudywasbasedonexternalization,oneof the modesinthetheoryoforganizationalknowledgecreation(thatis,convertingtacitknowledgeinto explicitknowledge).Thefindingsontheliteraturestatedthatknowledgeisthemostimportantpiece ofbusinesscompetitiveadvantageandthattacitknowledgeisakeypartofthatknowledge.This researchfoundthattacitknowledgedidnotinfluenceindividualengineers’productivityandassuch didnotaffectbusinessperformance.Additionally,itfoundthattacitknowledgewasnotafactorthat couldbeusedtopredictindividualproductivity.Thisresearchwasthefirstattempttoinvestigate individualproductivityinrelationtotacitknowledge. KeywoRDS Artificial Intelligence, Explicit Knowledge, Semantic Web, Social Networks, Tacit Knowledge","PeriodicalId":201145,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Strateg. Inf. Technol. Appl.","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"6","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Int. J. Strateg. Inf. Technol. Appl.","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4018/IJSITA.2016100102","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}