Discuss the flow of Knowledge in a community of practice using appropriate tools and techniques to identify enablers and obstacles to knowledge sharing.
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Communities of practice can be defined as a group of people, along with their shared resources and dynamic relationships, who assemble to make use of shared knowledge, in order to enhance learning and create a shared value for the group.
There are two basic orientations to KM:
1- Information-based approaches which focus primarily on knowledge capture and codification. The information-based approach tends to emphasize explicit knowledge over tacit and favors the externalization objectives.
2- People or interaction-based approaches which place a great deal of emphasis on knowledge-sharing interactions, which in today’s organizations tend to be associated with CoPs. This social constructivist approach to learning and knowledge transfer seems to be much better suited to the discipline of knowledge management.
There are a number of obstacles that can hinder knowledge sharing within organizations. Some of the key obstacles to knowledge sharing are notions such as knowledge is property, knowledge is power, credibility of the content and the source, organizational culture, and the presence of undernets.
Some of the strategically important benefits of knowledge sharing include:
Dalkir, K. (2011). Knowledge management in theory and practice, 2nd ed. Cambridge, Mass: MIT.
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