Discovery Rules for Depicting Tacit Knowledge Usage and Management in Fractal Enterprise Models

The paper introduces rules to help identify and depict in a model enterprise activities that engage tacit knowledge. This is done using a specific enterprise modeling technique called Fractal Enterprise Model (FEM). However, the result can be of interest to researchers and practitioners using other modeling techniques. Though representing tacit knowledge is more or less mandatory for research and practice of Knowledge Management (KM), it is very seldom depicted explicitly in enterprise models of any kind. The type of rules presented in this paper follows our suggestion to consider the so-called discovery power of enterprise modeling languages alongside its expressive power.