Implementing Communities of Practice to Manage Knowledge and Drive Innovation

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Author(s): Nicole M. Radziwill (National Radio Astronomy Observatory, USA)
Copyright: 2008
Pages: 18
Source title: Knowledge Management Strategies: A Handbook of Applied Technologies
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Miltiadis D. Lytras (Effat University, Saudi Arabia), Meir Russ (University of Wisconsin - Green Bay, USA), Ronald Maier (Leopold-Franzens-University of Innsbruck, School of Management Information Systems, Austria)and Ambjörn Naeve (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-603-7.ch009

Keywords: Information Science Reference / Knowledge Management / Library & Information Science

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A Community of Practice (CoP) unites individuals with shared interests and shared or complementary competencies to interact on a regular basis, advancing communal learning and knowledge. By facilitating increased, relevant interactions between people, CoPs often improve organizational effectiveness. They can be initiated as a performance improvement intervention at the individual, group and organizational levels. After describing the theoretical background of CoPs as discussed in the organizational theory and knowledge management literature, this article classifies the results of research in the knowledge management domain, dating from 1991, into an actionable Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) model. Future trends in CoP development, including e-Science and digital ecosystems, are then discussed.

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