Knowledge Management As A Doughnut Shaping Your...

1 INTRODUCTION â€Å"Knowledge management as a doughnut: Shaping your knowledge strategy through communities of practice† is an article written by Etienne Wenger in 2004. Wenger, a recognized expert in knowledge management aspect, is well-known for his achievements in social learning and communities of practice. And he even coined the new term â€Å"community of practice† with the co-author Jean Lave in their article â€Å"Situated learning: Legitimate peripheral participation†, which describes a group of practitioners in organizations who share their knowledge. In this paper, Wenger built a new knowledge management model which is called doughnut. This model shows how knowledge flows in the organization. This paper will summarize the main idea of Wenger’s article, and discuss the strengths and weakness of it, which would help in understanding the knowledge management. 2 SUMMARY Firstly, the author shows his sceptics on the knowledge management today, and argue that practitioners should manage knowledge themselves. Then he set up the doughnut model of knowledge management that could illustrate the logic of the transformation between strategy and performance. The strategy could improve performance by learning, sharing stewarding, and the performance could help in developing strategy through the three elements of â€Å"Community of practice†. 3 CRITIQUE 3.1 WRITING STYLE The writing style of this paper is quite different from traditional academic writing. 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