A common objective for any CoP program is to encourage information flow, knowledge reuse, and learning among employees.This informational focus derives from early scholarship on the situated nature of learning and problem solving in communities.However, from a purely practical perspective, substantial efficiency and effectiveness benefits result from communities that promote effective knowledge creation and transfer. Unfortunately, in new communities, we typically see information flow and learning networks that are constrained by formal structure,homophilly, and to some degree personality or interests of those involved.These social forces create silos and a wide dispersion of connectivity that undermine knowledge transfer and performance benefits of communities.
Rob Cross in Assessing and Improving Communities of Practice with Organizational Network Analysis made by his team of the Network Round Table at the University of Virginia; the application of Organizational Network Analysis (ONA) on communties of practice at fifteen participating organizations of the NRT. There's a couple of more resources there too.
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