Communities of Practice (COP)
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Serial no: | Topic: | Page No: | 1. | Introduction | 3 | 2. | Communities of Practices | 4 | 3. | Communities of practice and knowledge management | 5 | | I. Importance of teamwork for Knowledge Management | 5 | | II. Sharing ideas to the success of KM | 7 | | III. Connection of COP to Knowledge Management | 8 | | IV. How characteristics of COP help to bring success to KM practices | 9 | 4. | Conclusion | 11 | 5. | References | 12 |

Introduction

Communities of practice are everywhere. We all belong to a number of them–at work, at university, at home, in our hobbies. Some have a name, some don't. We
Thus, for knowledge management, a community of practice is one source of content and context that if codified, documented and archived can be accessed for later use.

Importance of teamwork for Knowledge Management: What works in KM is reaching its goals is not an individual, but properly integrated teamwork. The main reason is that considering the vastness and the very nature of the work that KM department engages in, it is not possible for any one individual to even think of taking the entire load upon his own shoulders. Teamwork can be simply defined, "as a state of unity achieved within a group of people working for a specific economic benefit." The phenomenon of teamwork in business is basically used to define the coordination and cooperation, between the members of a partnership that form a business or a joint venture or a private limited company. To succeed at the task in hand everyone involved needs to combine their efforts. If everyone does their job well, then it increases what the team can accomplish. This teamwork has to be recognized by everyone and know that great things can happen if individuals master