Abstract
Experience of knowledge management initiatives in non-health care organizations
can offer useful insights, and strategies, to implement evidencebased
practice in health care. Knowledge management offers a structured
process for the generation, storage, distribution and application of knowledge
in organizations. This includes both tacit knowledge (personal experience)
and explicit knowledge (evidence). Communities of practice are a
key component of knowledge management and have been recognized to be
essential for the implementation of change in organizations. It is within
communities of practice that tacit knowledge is actively integrated with
explicit knowledge. Organizational factors that limit the development of
knowledge management, including communities of practice, in non-health
care organizations need to be overcome if the potential is to be achieved
within health care.
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