For being active that, you produce the acquisition and the research of the knowledge in a certain field or knowledge it is the group of the people who do continuous mutual interchange.
Originally Etienne Wenger doctor and (Lave Jean) the book "Situated Learning" of the doctor (1991) the word which appears. In this book, listing the tailor to example, as for many of the study in the traditional apprentice system, you analyze, that it is done with mutual interchange between the craftsman and the upper-class apprentice, "study is process of participation to the community of practice", that it did. Here "study" is not that the individual acquires intelligence and technical skill, it is assumed that it is change and process itself of the role which can through the participation to the community of practice.
At this stage, the traditional workplace and the workplace and the school etc. which are based on apprentice system "the place where it can unfold social practice" it was the word which shows the fact that is, but after thatyou attractattention in knowledge management field and via the research and the like regarding knowledge moving in the indian-American enterprise, "inside that you exist separately from the official organization of enterprise, knowledge (especially tacit knowledge) it reached the point where it is expanded to the meaning, human network for moving and creating".
At the time of enterprise and organizing, the community of practice original it will be something which has been provided inevitably, it will approve officially, but end existence is something which is present. When it is not approved, the knowledge worker has respectively, it becomes informal private network. The community of practice offers those such as , conversation, guidance and practice, via mutual interchange and informal study process, makes moving the tacit knowledge possible.
As for the relation of network, when special field and function is done similarly, when commitment it has done at common business, there is no common point in post and the background aspect, but there is also a community where the people who share problem consciousness and interest and enthusiasm etc. meet. If there is also a thing which is settled inside business unit, those which stride section, furthermore there are also some which exceed the framework of enterprise, also constitution number of people and duration are various.
There are also some where spontaneous ones, it is approached necessary in regard to the formation and also origin such as those where the community was formed voluntarily and those etc. which were made intend being various, also the post member including, when the "community of practice" is, if there are also informal kind of ones which you have not recognized, those which in enterprise organization are active on the secret reverse side, it is justified and those which receive support from enterprise, to organization it is converted & are institutionalized high-level and are incorporated into the decision making process of enterprise.
With the American case receiving official positioning in enterprise, there is also a community of kind of practice which exerts influence on decision making of enterprise. The abundant case (the worldwide bank, the royal Dutch shell, the and company, Xerox and Daimler Chrysler etc.) listing this theory and the practice which knowledge creative age are necessary future for, you explain.
As for and others, it expressed the new thought "the past record it belonged to what kind of community of practice of, displaying the knowledge system itself of that person".
This way, it has moved to the new management technique whether the focus of the European-American knowledge management how establishes the community where knowledge creation and joint ownership are done actively, that locates the context of business clearly. |
