Knowledge and Communities - 9781138435124

Taylor & Francis

Communities of Practice are cross-organizational groups of people sharing knowledge, solving common problems, and exchanging insights and frustrations. A collection of articles, this work describes the dynamics of these groups and explains how they enable organizational knowledge to be creating, shared, and applied. > Knowledge and Communities is the first book dedicated to a major new knowledge management topic. \""Communities of Practice\"" are cross-organizational groups of people sharing knowledge, solving common problems, and exchanging insights and frustrations. Knowledge and Communities, a collection of authoritative articles, describes the dynamics of these groups and explains how they enable organizational knowledge to be creating, shared, and applied. The book teaches how organizations can empower both traditional and on-line communities and make them a cornerstone of a general knowledge management strategy. Readers will learn how communities can help unify an organizationr