Knowledge Discovery Systems support the process of developing new tacit or explicit knowledge from data and information or from the synthesis of prior knowledge.

Knowledge Discovery Systems support two KM subprocesses associated with knowledge discovery:

• combination, enabling the discovery of new explicit knowledge. Existing explicit knowledge may be re-contextualized to produce new explicit knowledge;
• socialization, facilitating the synthesis of tacit knowledge and therefore enabling the discovery of new tacit knowledge through joint activities rather than written or verbal instructions (Becerra-Fernandez and Sabherwal, 2010).

Socialization as a means of knowledge discovery is a common practice at many organizations, pursued either by accident or on purpose.

Mechanisms for socialization:

• Employee rotation across departments,
• research conferences,
• brainstorming sessions,
• cooperative projects (Becerra-Fernandez and Sabherwal, 2010).

You can find some ideas about the successful brainstorming from the following document: The Step by Step Guide to Brainstorming
and looking the following videoclip:

Brainstorming