Knowledge continuity, term by term
The vocabulary of knowledge continuity, defined precisely and without jargon-on-jargon. Each term gets its own page: a citable definition, the common confusions, why it matters for SMEs and family businesses, and how it applies inside MentX.
The problem vocabulary
Knowledge concentration risk
The exposure when critical knowledge sits in one or a few heads.
Key person dependency
A business's reliance on one individual — the due-diligence red flag.
Tacit knowledge
What an expert knows but cannot easily write down.
Explicit knowledge
The codified layer: procedures, drawings, manuals.
Institutional knowledge
The organization's collective memory — history, norms, reasons.
Knowledge transfer
Moving knowledge between people — the succession bottleneck.
The solution vocabulary
Knowledge base
A structured, queryable collection of knowledge — built to answer.
Knowledge graph
Knowledge stored as a network of entities and relationships.
Temporal knowledge graph
A knowledge graph where every fact carries time.
Provenance
Who said it, where, when — what makes knowledge checkable.
Digital knowledge copy
A queryable representation of one person's knowledge and reasoning.
Succession planning
Preparing the handover — and its habitual knowledge blind spot.
See the terms at work
How MentX turns capture, graph and provenance into a working Knowledge Space for your company.
How MentX works