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Etienne Wenger
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Debate about the utility of knowledge management continues today. As long as we adopt a good model for managing knowledge, in this case, a doughnut, its practice can give a company a decided advantage.
Practitioners
are people in position, who use knowledge to manage their activities. need the proper organizational context
knowledge of any field is too complex to any individual to cover and therefore they need to interact with colleagues to benefit from stimulation and thus creates a community of practice;
Communities of practice
groups of people who share a passion for something that they know how to do, and who interact regularly in order to learn how to do it better. a cornerstone in knowledge management
Needs to grown by participating in such dialogues with executives in the organization, other communities of practice, and experts outside the organization.
Doughnut model
Strategy Performance
Strategy to performance: Practice: Engage practitioners in the development of their practice. Community: Cultivate the communities according to each domain. Domain: Translate the strategy of the organization into a set of domains of knowledge.
Performance to strategy: Domain: Think about knowledge strategically. Community: Broaden the scope of learning beyond its source. Practice: Translate the learning inherent in activities into refined practices.
Insights
The key phrase in this article is communities of practice. This aims to shape knowledge strategy for organizations. The Doughnut model illustrates the cycle of knowledge management. It contains strategy to performance and performance to strategy information. This is an advantage because we are able to crosscheck and learn new knowledge in the most simple and easy way to understand. This makes it easy for later learning, sharing, applying and storing.
Opinion
The one point I am in disagreeable terms are the examples illustrated. The examples are all big companies with strong resources to apply, sponsor and support for the implementation of Doughnut model. For the case of small companies with weak resources, it is still a question on how are they are able to do the same things where they are lacking in good human resources, technology and capital.