| ‘Going the Extra Half-Mile ’- International Communities of Practice and the Role of Shared (2007) | |||||||||||||||
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| As commercial organisations face up to modern commercial pressures and react with measures such as downsizing and outsourcing they have come to realise that they have lost a lot of knowledge as people have left. Further pressure is being placed on organisations by the increased internationalisation of business resulting in collaboration and cooperation becoming more distributed and international. This means knowledge is having to be increasingly shared across time and distance. The loss of knowledge and the need to share knowledge across different locations has led to an increased awareness of the importance of knowledge as an important resource and organisations are taking steps to manage it. Knowledge Management (KM) is an approach which claims to deal with this, however a lot of Knowledge Management deals with explicit knowledge and emphasises a capture, codify, store approach. This is a major weakness of the current approach to KM as a large part of it appears to equate more with Information Management. It is only very recently that the importance of more subtle types of knowledge which need sharing has been | |||||||||||||||
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