Friday, March 25, 2022

Blog #2 Getting to know Communities of Practice & Knowledge Management


What is Community of Practice?

        It refers to a group of people who have similar practices, interests, concerns, passions, and life goals. Basically, they've come together to promote knowledge-sharing, which allows members to discuss one another's points of view and viewpoints on a certain issue, which can definitely contribute in getting beyond knowledge and broadening one's understanding of the subject matter. Indeed, one way to identify our life's passion and interest is to join a community of practice. Critical thinking and knowledge sharing can help those who are looking for their life's purpose and goals to find new opportunities and possibilities. Because they are focused on building, sharing identities, and gathering intelligence. So, finding individuals with common practices can make problems and challenges more bearable to overcome as they support one another. One of COP's short-term values is to give a helping hand in any situation. Members of the organization will have access to specialists, which will provide them with long-term value including self development, community voice and influence, and strategic competencies.

 3 Characteristics of Community of Practice 

1. Domain- Members have shared a common interest, which motivates them to participate in certain activity, guides their learning, and gives meaning to their actions.
2. Community-It is the actual practitioner or members who collaborate, join, and contribute to the growth of knowledge and building the relationships within the community. Their willingness to communicate and collect information is encouraged for knowledge and sharing of ideas.
3. Practices- A shared objective and a certain thing they focus to concentrate on. It serves as a foundation upon which the community builds, develops, and preserves the collective knowledge that serves as its backbone.

Knowledge Management

    The process of obtaining, organizing, and preserving information in order to make it accessible to everyone is known as knowledge management. It is, above all, the process of expanding and innovating collective wisdom in order to achieve corporate goals by maximizing the use of existing knowledge. New definition of KM was being identify by Duhon 1998. He added that Knowledge Management is not just refers to a discipline that promotes capturing, organizing and sharing of information. Those information may also come from intangible assets that can be accumulated including databases, papers, regulations, and procedures, as well as un-captured expertise and experience of an individual.

 

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