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 people
share information in companies and what communities of practice are. At first, it
shows how companies deal with the fact that today's economy runs on
knowledge. It presents two different strategies and what kind of strategy
companies like Ernst&Young or McKinsey uses. Beyond that, it describes the
way how a community of practice works and what kind of differences in contrast
to a team exist.
