Patent ID: 7127440
Filing Date: 2006-10-24
Classification: G06Q,G09B

Abstract:
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.