Knowledge Sharing

Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Business economics - Information Management, Cologne University of Applied Sciences (Informationswirtschaft), course: Information & Communication, language: English, abstract: This essay is about knowledge sharing and the key question is how do peopleshare information in companies and what communities of practice are. At first, itshows how companies deal with the fact that today's economy runs onknowledge. It presents two different strategies and what kind of strategycompanies like Ernst&Young or McKinsey uses. Beyond that, it describes theway how a community of practice works and what kind of differences in contrastto a team exist.