Knowledge Management Systems -- Why So Many Failures?

Many recent IT project failures relate to the implementation of a wide variety of knowledge-focused systems. High levels of failure are reported and reasons cited in the literature tend to associate these failures with poor project definition and an over focus on the technology. However, there may be another reason for these failures - a misuse of the concept of tacit/explicit knowledge in the form of an assumption that one can easily be converted into the other. A closer examination of tacit knowledge - particularly through the seminal works of Polanyi and Nonaka - would suggest otherwise