Communities of Practice

Communities of practice in relation to knowledge management, are composed of individuals and groups that come together to find, share, transfer, and archive acquired knowledge for the greater good of the community or to accomplish a goal or task. The universe is full of an infinite amount of information waiting to be captured and converted to knowledge and then converted to wisdom. Individuals because of their experiences, backgrounds, and encounters have accumulated large amounts of knowledge that is useless when kept to one's self. However when these individuals come together to create a community of practice they build a bank of knowledge, where knowledge can store and archived for a greater good of the community as a whole.