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New employees then learn from colleagues who have little experience themselves. That creates local habits instead of reliable standards.",{"type":540,"children":746},[747],{"type":543,"value":748},"The most common mistake here is to start securing knowledge only once a specialist announces their departure. Effective knowledge management builds documentation into process releases, shift handovers, failure analyses and continuous improvement. Company knowledge then grows steadily instead of under time pressure.",{"type":601,"level":688,"children":750},[751],{"type":543,"value":752},"Why tacit knowledge is especially hard to secure",{"type":540,"children":754},[755,758],{"type":543,"marks":756,"value":757},[556],"Tacit knowledge is hard to secure because experienced employees perform many actions intuitively and cannot fully verbalize how they work.",{"type":543,"value":759}," A new site also lacks the shared experience and long-term collaboration that the classic master-apprentice model relies on.",{"type":540,"children":761},[762],{"type":543,"value":763},"A specialist knows how a correctly joined component feels, or which small deviation signals upcoming tool wear. 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