The Knowledge Crisis Hitting Every Growing Business in 2026

How the World's First Global Think-Tank for Tacit Knowledge Management Can Help You Save Your Most Critical Business Asset Before It Walks Out the Door

NASA forgot how they built the rocket that took us to the moon. 

After the Apollo missions ended, something strange happened.

When NASA engineers tried to recreate the Saturn V rocket, they hit a wall. 

The parts existed. The blueprints existed.

The people didn’t.

The engineers who built it had retired…
and their unwritten knowledge was gone.

The documents showed what to build, but not the subtle know-how behind thousands of tiny design choices.

Recreating that lost wisdom would cost billions.

That’s what happens when tacit knowledge walks out the door.

And this same silent crisis is happening in growing companies every single day.

Your company's most valuable secrets live in people's heads

Just like NASA, your organization has blueprints and documents, but the real know-how and competitive advantage lives in people.

It is people who separate million-dollar successes from costly mistakes. Intuitive know-how turns good employees into irreplaceable assets. The hard-won wisdom that took decades to develop.

And as you read this, that priceless expertise is only one resignation letter away from disappearing forever.

As a fellow manager, I’m sure you've witnessed this firsthand:

A veteran employee retires, with 20 years of institutional memory and technology knowhow. The gaps show up later.

A key manager accepts another offer, leaving behind a trail of processes that nobody else truly understands.

Clients who join sales managers and star sales executives out the door. Client relationships are all about tacit knowledge management.

And new hires stumble through the same problems that were solved years ago because the solutions depended on someone's tacit knowledge.

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The numbers tell a sobering story. Companies lose an estimated 42% of their institutional knowledge when experienced employees leave.

That's not just data walking out the door... that's competitive advantage, efficiency, and years of trial-and-error learning vanishing overnight.

Now here's what makes this crisis particularly urgent for senior managers like yourself.

Traditional knowledge management systems capture documents, procedures, and explicit information.

But they completely miss the tacit knowledge: the intuitive insights, contextual understanding, and experiential wisdom that actually drive business results.

Because the future is not a scenario pieced together as an extension of the past.

You can document every procedure in your company handbook, but you can't document the subtle signs that warn an experienced manager when a client relationship is about to sour.

You can create training materials for new software, but you can't transfer the instinctive feel for which customizations work best for different types of customers.

That's the knowledge gap that's quietly undermining your competitive position every single day.

If you want to dig deeper, our Davos 2026 Forum package is for you.

NEW: The GO-TKM Davos 2027 Executive package: Strategies for Knowledge-Driven Organizations

Yes, we will be in Davos for the WEF events again in 2027 like in 2025 and 2026. We networked, watched, and listened for tacit knowledge: opinions, trends, plans, development. On January 21, 2027, we will have our next virtual event:

Retain Wisdom – Fuel AI Disruption

Leverage tacit knowledge to power meaningful and lasting AI-driven transformation

Here’s the thing. AI cannot decide our future. 

Yes, AI can analyse and extrapolate better than humans, but somewhere between 65% and 80% of us (we are all consumers) want a different future from where we’re heading.

It's not extrapolation by AI. And in senior management, we now use AI for analytics, deep research and scenario building, but as much as 90% of decisions still rely on the tacit knowledge in the management team. Intuition and knowledge that comes from experience. 

Our mission: we need solutions that AI cannot deliver. We invite you to join for a very modest price because we're a not-for-profit think-tank. Here's what you get in the Davos 2027 Executive Package: 

  • A VIP ticket to our Davos 2027 virtual event if you're among the first 200
  • You get the full recordings from 2026 with summaries, quotables, index,, and resources
  • Access monthly interviews (podcasts) with senior managers about how intellectual and tacit capital – of particular value for SMEs who don’t want to spend a fortune on expensive consultants.
  • Give three specialists or project managers access to all monthly Tacit Cup events, recordings and resources. Monthly and special events focus on SMEs, one-hour Zoom events with an expert presentation followed by discussions. 
  • Opportunity to buy consulting for employees or yourself from verified experts

The GO-TKM Davos 2026 Forum featured the first global think-tank dedicated exclusively to tacit knowledge management.

As the great baby boomer retirement wave accelerates, the window for preserving institutional knowledge is rapidly closing.

The timing couldn't be more critical.  

Yes, I want the whole package for $497

Meet the Authority Behind the Global GO-TKM Movement

Over the next year and beyond, you will meet a line-up of think-tank experts with recordings from 24 January, free access to our Tacit Cup series, and a series of interviews with senior managers. 

With thirty experts across four think-tank subgroups and hundreds more from over 70 countries in our network, together we bring an unprecedented global combination of academic rigor and practical business insight to tacit knowledge management.

Years of developing frameworks that allow organizations to systematically capture and transfer experiential knowledge.

The first-ever international community dedicated to preserving and leveraging human wisdom in business contexts.

While traditional approaches focus on documenting explicit knowledge, our methodologies, we invite you to unlock the tacit knowledge that truly differentiates high-performing organizations from their competitors.

This isn't theoretical research... it's practical methodology developed and tested in real-world organizational settings.

What You Get

The Davos 2027 Executive Package

Don’t let culture eat your strategy for breakfast! The recordings deliver actionable insights that can help change your organization.

You'll learn the systematic approaches that allow businesses to capture the why behind decisions, not just the what.

The methodologies for turning one expert's 20 years of mistakes into learning gold for your entire team.

You'll discover how to identify the critical knowledge assets within your organization: the insights and intuitive understanding that create real competitive advantage.

The workshop introduces proven frameworks for building knowledge bridges between generations of employees.

You'll see how wisdom can flow naturally from experienced team members to newer employees, ensuring that hard-won insights become organizational assets rather than personal possessions.

Perhaps most valuable of all, you'll learn how to implement these systems without disrupting existing workflows or creating additional bureaucratic overhead.

The most effective tacit knowledge management systems work invisibly, capturing and preserving insights as a natural part of business operations.

Bonus 1: Monthly 2026 & 2027 Tacit Cups

Your access to unique global expertise

When you register for GO-TKM Davos 2027 Executive Package, your company gets 3 seats in the Tacit Cup series: 50-minutes monthly sessions led by international experts in tacit knowledge management.

These intimate workshops provide ongoing support as you implement TKM strategies within your organization.

Each session focuses on specific aspects of knowledge preservation and transfer, with ample time for discussion and Q&A with both experts and fellow business leaders facing similar challenges.

The collaborative format ensures you're not just learning theory, but developing practical solutions you can immediately apply.

The Tacit Cup series alone represents $997 in value, but it's included at no additional cost when you buy the GO-TKM Davos 2027 Executive Package.

Bonus 2: TKM Boardroom | 2026 + 2027 Series 

Follow crucial topics and special TKM reports

Starting September 2026, we will launch our models, then interview senior executives and thought leaders who are already successful in running more sustainable value chains, value networks, projects, and green governance around the world.

Combining tacit knowledge management and sustainability, our Green Learning Awards honoured five such companies that lead the way, and there are thousands more.  

One core challenge is how to use AI strategically? One thing is operational processes, strategic tacit knowledge is different. The Series builds intellectual capital.

Circular Economy is another huge challenge: starting with sustainability and value chains, but we also need value networks and new ways to collaborate.

When you buy the Davos 2027 Executive Package, our platform allows you to comment, network, and suggest important topics. 

The interview series is led by our Global VP, Dr Paul, who has extensive experience from international management, project mentoring and global practice leadership. Here he's mingling with top executives at a conference with the German European chambers of commerce. He is an ISO TC/323 expert on circular economy and corporate governance, and follows IFRS Sustainability Alliance for the ISSB standards. 

Bonus 3: One VIP ticket to Davos 2027 Forum Virtual & Pre-events 

Our Davos 2027 Virtual Forum will be 21 January 2027.

Note: VIP is limited to the first 200 registrants. 

Yes, our Davos 2026 Forum had such great feedback that we will be in Davos again in 2027 for our third year networking, interviewing, listening for trends and following mainstage discussions.

Next year will be even better. more practical use cases and industry focus.

Yes, I want the whole package for $497

Register Now for the GO-TKM Davos 2027 Executive Package 

Know-how and mentoring at a fraction of management consulting 

Importantly, the insights you'll gain could save your organization from the devastating knowledge loss that occurs when key personnel transition. 

The methodologies you'll learn in this package work regardless of your organization's size or industry.

Of course, you can also buy customised TKM consulting from us at any time.

Whether you're leading a growing mid-market company or managing a division within a larger enterprise, the principles of tacit knowledge management apply directly to your situation. 

Registration includes access to all workshop materials, the complete Tacit Cup series, interviews, and ongoing connection to the global TKM community.

You'll join a network of forward-thinking leaders who understand that preserving institutional knowledge isn't just good practice... it's competitive necessity.

Your organization's intellectual capital is too valuable to leave to chance. 

Secure your GO-TKM Davos 2026 package today.

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If you're not satisfied for whatever reason within 3 months of purchase, we re-imburse the whole amount. No questions asked. 

In a Nutshell:

Immediate learning (recordings), practical tools, ongoing expert support, community access, and 2026 event benefits—all aimed at helping organizations retain and use their most valuable (tacit) knowledge.

Protect critical know-how before it disappears
You learn how to capture tacit knowledge from experienced staff so key insights don’t vanish when people leave.  

Improve decision quality
By understanding the “why” behind past decisions (not just documented processes), you make faster, more context-aware strategic choices.                                          

Speed up onboarding and capability building
Frameworks help transfer expert experience to newer employees, shortening ramp-up time and raising team performance.

 Strengthen leadership continuity
You build systems where knowledge lives in the organization—not in individuals—so teams remain stable during turnover or restructuring.

Make AI initiatives more  valuable
Shows how to combine human insight with AI, ensuring transformation efforts are grounded in business wisdom, not just data.  

A peer network 
Ongoing expert sessions and interviews expose you to how other senior leaders handle similar challenges to your.  

If you worry about leaking tacit knowledge, the Executive Package is for you. 

Yes, a year of everything for only $497