System: Community of Practice (CoP)

View: System Name and Class

Name: Community of Practice (CoP)

Based on:  Human Activity System (HAS)

Wikipedia: Community of Practice (CoP)

Examples of communities of practice

  • Education and Research
  • Sports and Recreation
  • Politics and Unions
  • Religious communities
  • Professional Bodies

Various types of Community of Practice (CoP) can use the enterprise concepts to describe the CoP.

Enterprise (SoS)

The System Descriptions for the Person and Social System also apply in the Community of Practice (CoP)

PDF: System Description: Person (Human Being), Version 2.4, 04-April-2023

PDF: System Description: Social System, Version 0.11, 27-September-2026

View: System Purpose

The purpose of the Community of Practice is to:

  • To bring together people with similar interests and concerns.
  • To establish a knowledge base that supports Human Activities.

The following types of organizations are included in the classification of community of practice:

  • Religious Organization.
  • Educational institutions.
  • Professional Organization.
  • Sports Organization.
  • Political Organization.
  • Civil Society Organization.
  • Non-Governmental Organization.
  • Unions
  • Lobbyists Organizations.
Goal 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for allGoal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girlsGoal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countriesGoal 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainableGoal 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patternsGoal 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levelsGoal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development

View: System Properties

Systemic Measurable Variables

  • Number of members of a community
  • Locations of the community

Systemic Capabilities or Functions

  • to share and learn
  • to develop and grow
  • for valuing differences and backgrounds.

System States

The various defined states that the system-of-interestcan be in.

  • Emerging / startup
  • Operational
  • Closing
View: System Stakeholders and Concerns

Stakeholders and their concerns

View: System Environment (Context)
  • Natural Systems provide the place for living and food supplies
  • Transcendental Systems (discovering new knowledge)
  • Designed Physical and Abstract Systems (training and development).
View: System Structure (Pattern of Organization)

A community of practice takes the following typical structure:

Community of Practice as a Human Activity System (HAS)

Various segments are identified as communities:

  • Social Structure (knowledge base, membership, process / procedures, etc)
  • Social Networks of communication (Members)
  • Culture (the values and beliefs form a common context of meanding).

Note that system descriptions for person and social system also apply

PDF: System Description: Person (Human Being), Version 2.4, 04-April-2023

PDF: System Description: Social System, Version 0.11, 27-September-2026

View: System Behavior (Structural Changes)

Configuration / Scenario:

Describes any configuration / scenario attributes for a specific system-of-interest. This may not be appropriate for all system descriptions (e.g. patterns or abstract systems).

Cyclical (Repeating / Regular) Processes

  • annual meetings and conferences
  • Alumni gatherings.
  • Publications
  • Networking opportunities
  • Manage membership
  • Manage Communications

Development Life Cycle Processes

  • Attract, establish and manage a community
  • Improve the engagement with the community and the wider society
  • Develop and improve the knowledge base
  • Identify and conduct research into related areas.
References

The following references support this type of system-of-interest.