Week 6 : Tutorial 5

On 9 of July 2013 , we had our Fifth tutorial of TKM 1291 ( Introduction to Knowledge Management) . In this tutorial we have discussed about the Communities of Practice (COP).

So we went through Communities of Practice (COP) and how we can distinguish a COP from a formal work group , a group team and an informal network. Then we discussed how this COP add values to organizations . Then we have discussed COP implementation in London 2012 Olympics,to understand the concept of the COP more, Then we proceed to discussed  about short case study about Medical website called (Kenxa) where a global team of scientists working on a vaccine for the SARS virus to look up experts and to create communities and to share knowledge with them. so we discussed whether this case reffering to a community of practice or a project team and also the benefits of sharing knowledge in the quest of finding a cure for SARS virus.

At the end of the class Madam have conducted Neuroscience Activity which was colour's Names with different colours and request from our friend Tariq to state the colours. He abled to state the correct ones but he took a quite some of time to figure it out.

Finally Madam have reminded us that our Mid-term will be next week  on 16 of July at the same tutorial time and wished for us all the best.