Tacit ↔ explicit · assess throughout
The Knowledge Management Lifecycle
This lifecycle follows one common movement through experience, managed information, delivery, application, and learning. It is not a one-way publishing pipeline, and it is one model of KM—not a complete map of the system.
Interactive model
Operate one continuous knowledge lifecycle.
Explore a phase or play the full cycle to follow experience into managed information, delivery, application, and new learning.
Tacit / Peopleunderstanding · experience · judgment · capability
Explicit / Systemsinformation · content · records · repositories
Tacit / work contextExplicit / managed environment
and assessimportance · completeness
context · risk
preserve, and assessquality · ownership
authority · lifecycle
and assessrelevance · access
trust · usability
learn, and assesseffectiveness · outcome · new learning
Experienced personexplain · demonstrate · observe
Person in the workinterpret · decide · apply
Managed systemsRepositoryidentity · owner · metadataversion · status · accessreview · retention · history
Knowledge asset
One recurring system
Experience becomes an assessed asset, gains control, reaches a person, supports action, and returns as evidence and learning.
PeopleAssetSystemsAssessment throughout
Complete lifecycle: Capture, management, delivery, application, learning, and assessment operate as a visible continuous cycle.
The lifecycle makes recurring movement visible. Human exchange, continuity, content governance, structure, environments, risk, and improvement operate around and through that movement.
The same lifecycle can run through many connected areas of KM. The landscape opens that wider system.