About This Book

🌱 Cultivating Communities of Practice: A Guide to Managing Knowledge 🤝 Communities of practice are groups of people who share a concern or passion and deepen their knowledge through ongoing interactions. 🌍 Communities of practice connect people across organizations and business units. 💡 Knowledge is social and resides in the skills, understanding, and relationships of community members. 🏢 Communities of practice require a well-defined domain, a sense of community, and a shared practice to thrive.

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• through these changes, the community maintains a sense of identity rooted in a shared understanding of its domain.
• innovative knowledge system based on communities of practice.
• COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE are groups of people who share a concern, a set of problems, or a passion about a topic, and who deepen their knowledge and expertise in this area by interacting on an ongoing basis.
• meet because they find value in their interactions.
• share information, insight, and advice. They help each other solve problems. They discuss their situations, their aspirations, and their needs. They ponder common issues, explore ideas, and act as sounding boards. They may create tools, standards, generic designs, manuals, and other documents—or they may simply develop a tacit understanding that th...