Methods and systems for collaborating communities of practice
First Claim
1. A system for collaborating communities of practice, comprising:
- a community of practice environment including communities of practice, each including members and having a respective goal; and
a knowledge management architecture comprising computer instructions stored on a computer-readable medium, which when executed by a processor cause a processor to;
store a community of practice profile for each of the communities of practice, each community of practice profile including data reflecting characteristics of one or more community members,identify a first set of communities of practice that are related by comparing one or more community of practice profiles corresponding to the first set of communities, andset up a collaborative communication session between the communities of practice in the first set to enable the communities of practice in the first set to share resources, wherein the shared resources include knowledge documents of one or more communities of practice in the first set, to achieve their respective goals.
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Abstract
Methods and systems for collaborating communities of practice are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed for collaborating communities of practice in a community of practice environment. Each community of practice includes a goal. The method may include searching information associated with each of the communities of practice for related information and identifying a set of communities of practice having related information. Further, the method may include determining whether any of the communities of practice in the set are related and establishing a collaborative communication session between the related communities of practice such that the related communities of practice share resources in achieving their respective goals.
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1. A system for collaborating communities of practice, comprising:
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a community of practice environment including communities of practice, each including members and having a respective goal; and a knowledge management architecture comprising computer instructions stored on a computer-readable medium, which when executed by a processor cause a processor to; store a community of practice profile for each of the communities of practice, each community of practice profile including data reflecting characteristics of one or more community members, identify a first set of communities of practice that are related by comparing one or more community of practice profiles corresponding to the first set of communities, and set up a collaborative communication session between the communities of practice in the first set to enable the communities of practice in the first set to share resources, wherein the shared resources include knowledge documents of one or more communities of practice in the first set, to achieve their respective goals. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A method for collaborating communities of practice in a community of practice environment, each community of practice including a goal, the method comprising:
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storing a community of practice profile for each of the communities of practice, each community of practice profile including data reflecting characteristics of one or more community members; searching information associated with community of practice profiles which are associated with each of the communities of practice for related information; identifying a set of communities of practice having related information; determining whether any of the communities of practice in the set are related; and establishing a collaborative communication session between the related communities of practice such that the related communities of practice share resources, including information related to one or more goals of the related communities of practice, in achieving their respective goals. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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