Metodología para la construcción de comunidades de práctica

Abstract

Many organizations begin to consider to his communities of practice or communities of knowledge as a key element in his strategy of Management of Knowledge, EPM is not the exception and for it the importance of consolidating these groups of workers who share his knowledge to near a discipline, a skill or a common interest. The communities of knowledge know that type of knowledge is important and the way of transferring it and that is more useful to use it, these associations have a great aptitude to generate high places levels of complexity of the knowledge, as well as the tacit and explicit knowledge. To administer the knowledge of a company, the first step must be the identification of the knowledge that are possessed and the preliminary evaluation of the competitive characteristics of these. Then the knowledge must be transferred and spread deeply inside the structure of the organization, to be able to integrate the current knowledge with the new knowledge acquired of the exterior or developed internally in the company. To achieve this, it is necessary to capture the knowledge in a physical structure that could handle and transmit and that allows to extract from her again the knowledge for sensory means, without need to appeal the person who originated it. Nevertheless, all this knowledge must transform later in innovation in order that it brings tangible results to the company. The intangible capital or the intellectual capital, it represents, in the latter years, the most important value to face to the competitive challenge of our time. We are living in a company in that the theoretical knowledge is acquiring primacy and the tacit knowledge on any other class of knowledge, that is to say, being relevant those that they need of a certain mental model and of a few processes based on the creation, in the ideas, in the abstraction and in the innovation. In the companies not always it is recognized and his managing rarely is the most suitable, due to the lack of tools and methodologies that allow to identify and to quantify it in an effective way it. Nevertheless, the economic factors of nowadays make obvious the need to join the intellectual capital and the knowledge to the strategic aims of the company, and hereby to achieve that the companies are located in a more competitive position inside the market. The combination of information, information and knowledge needed to announce the strategic aims of an organization they are constructed in the managerial or corporate memory. The managerial memory is the sum of individual, collective and corporate knowledge that an organization arranges to solve problematic complex situations in the area of the business. This knowledge demonstrates across processes that they generate the inventiveness and contribute with the productivity, for example by means of the creation of procedures, methods, practices and solutions. To consolidate a tool as the communities of practice there provide valuable contributions that will help the administration of the knowledge and the organizations to give an appropriate and efficient managing of routine and simple tasks, and that the complex, not routine or sudden tasks have an opportune, competent managing and inside the context of the strategic aims of the company. For EPM, with a view to his strategy of growth, it is fundamental to guarantee the consolidation of the Communities of Practice as a tool of the Management of the Knowledge that allows him to create a competitive advantage, to increase his economic benefits and to increase the spreading of the knowledge. Today EPM I stop being a local company, to turn into a managerial group of international character, which demands a more rapid response from him to the demands of his environment, a major speed in his processes and first of all a strong orientation towards the needs and demands of his markets. These levels of adjustment and growth will depend on the capacity expanding the knowledge acquired for 55 years of work, of an attitude to create the results that he wishes, of new bosses of thought establish and of learning with major rapidity that his competitors.