Knowledge management system and method
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1. A method of establishing a community of practice, the method comprising:
- identifying a need for a community of practice including as participants a plurality of users, one or more experts with special knowledge related to the identified need, and one or more community of practice managers;
identifying roles and responsibilities for participants in the community of practice including one or more experts approving data submitted by the participants in the community of practice, and one or more community of practice managers organizing interaction among the participants in the community of practice using a knowledge management system accessible by the participants of community of practice;
identifying one or more goals for the community of practice, based on the identified need;
establishing the community of practice to achieve the one or more goals;
receiving, in a database associated with the knowledge management system, data from one or more participants of the community of practice, the received data related to the community of practice;
maintaining the received data in the database based on the identified roles and responsibilities and the one or more goals; and
sharing, by a plurality of the participants of the community of practice, selected data in the database to achieve the one or more goals.
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Abstract
A method is provided for establishing a community of practice including a plurality of users, one or more experts, and one or more community of practice managers. A need for a community of practice is identified. The roles and responsibilities of participants in the community of practice are identified. One or more goals are identified for the community of practice based on the identified need. A plurality of the participants in the community of practice collaborate to achieve the identified goals.
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1. A method of establishing a community of practice, the method comprising:
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identifying a need for a community of practice including as participants a plurality of users, one or more experts with special knowledge related to the identified need, and one or more community of practice managers; identifying roles and responsibilities for participants in the community of practice including one or more experts approving data submitted by the participants in the community of practice, and one or more community of practice managers organizing interaction among the participants in the community of practice using a knowledge management system accessible by the participants of community of practice; identifying one or more goals for the community of practice, based on the identified need; establishing the community of practice to achieve the one or more goals; receiving, in a database associated with the knowledge management system, data from one or more participants of the community of practice, the received data related to the community of practice; maintaining the received data in the database based on the identified roles and responsibilities and the one or more goals; and sharing, by a plurality of the participants of the community of practice, selected data in the database to achieve the one or more goals. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A method of managing a knowledge management architecture for use in a community of practice, the method comprising:
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capturing, in a knowledge management system, knowledge received from community of practice participants based on a knowledge document received over a computer network, wherein the community of practice participants include a plurality of users, one or more experts having special knowledge related to at least one goal associated with the community of practice, and one or more community of practice managers who organize interaction among participants in the community of practice using the knowledge management system accessible by the participants of the community of practice; approving, by the one or more experts, the captured knowledge using the knowledge management system; delivering the approved knowledge to community of practice participants over the computer network; maintaining the knowledge in a knowledge database included in the knowledge management system; and sharing, by a plurality of the participants of the community of practice, at least some of the knowledge in the database to achieve the at least one goal of the community of practice. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A system for managing knowledge in an organization, the system comprising:
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a knowledge management architecture configured to provide a mechanism for collaborative interactions among participants of a community of practice to achieve one or more goals of the community of practice, the participants including; a plurality of users, one or more experts approving data submitted by participants in the community of practice, and one or more community of practice managers who manage interaction among the participants in accordance with the one or more goals of the community of practice, wherein the a network interconnects the knowledge management architecture, the plurality of users, the one or more experts, and the one or more community of practice managers, and the knowledge management architecture includes; a web server module, connected to the network, for providing tools for use by participants in the community of practice, a security module, connected to the web server module, for ensuring security requirements are met, an e-mail server, connected to the web server module and the network, for delivering knowledge to participants in the community of practice, a knowledge database, connected to the web server module, for storing knowledge entries, and a document management system, connected to the web server module, for permitting access to documents, wherein the participants use the knowledge management architecture to exchange information to achieve the one or more goals of the community of practice. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21)
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22. A method of managing a community of practice in a knowledge management system, the method comprising:
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identifying a goal for the community of practice; establishing the community of practice to achieve the goal associated with the community of practice; providing information in a computer system associated with the community of practice established based on; an identified need for the community of practice, an approval from a coordinator responsible for establishing the community of practice, an identified practice manager and one or more experts with special knowledge related to the identified goal associated with the community of practice, identified one or more documents including data associated with the community of practice, and an identified security level for the community of practice; and managing, by the computer system, the community of practice by allowing participants in the community of practice to exchange information to achieve the goal associated with the community of practice. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25)
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26. A system for managing a community of practice, including:
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a knowledge management system; and a network interconnecting the knowledge management system to participants of a community of practice, the participants including at least an expert approving data submitted by participants in the community of practice and a manager organizing interaction among the participants in the community of practice, wherein the knowledge management system provides information reflecting the existence of the community of practice over the network and receives one or more requests for membership into the community of practice from one or more users and the knowledge management system provides information reflecting the acceptance of the one or more requests for membership into the community of practice.
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27. A system for managing a community of practice, including:
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a knowledge management system including a database; and a network interconnecting the knowledge management system to participants of a community of practice, the participants including at least an expert approving data submitted by participants in the community of practice, a user, and a manager organizing interaction among the participants, wherein the knowledge management system receives knowledge from the user over the network, receives approval of knowledge submitted by the user in the community of practice from the expert, and provides the knowledge to each of the participants via the network for achieving a goal of the community of practice. - View Dependent Claims (28)
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