SOCIAL
NETWORKS AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
Dave Pollard's weblog on May 28th - Social Network
Analysis is the great thing right now within the field of
Knowledge Management, and so are weblogs. But where does all
of this leave the field of Knowledge Management? Dave
Pollard's tries to draw the picture of the field which is now
buzzing with blogs and Social Networks
RADICAL
INNOVATION WITH COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE
KnowledgeBoard May 27th - Most companies need to engage in radically innovating their products, services, and processes if they want to remain or become relevant players in the changing game of business. This article by George Por describes Communities of Practice as the single most generative factor of radical innovation
BUILDING
A CASE FOR COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE
IBM Systems Journal, Volume 40 - A classic on Communities of practice and organizational performance
by Lesser and Storck, which will provide you with a solid
understanding of the value of Communities of Practice in an
organisation as IBM.
WEBLOGS
AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
KnowledgeBoard January 10th - If you are not very
familiar with the concept of weblogging, this is your great
chance for catching up. In this article Sébastien Paquet
describeds what it is and why it is important to community
building, knowledge sharing and knowledge management. What you
find here in the article-section of the Innoversity Space has
a lot of weblog characteristics.
INTELLECTURAL
CAPITAL, SOCIAL CAPITAL AND COPS
KnowledgeBoard November 18th - This article by John
Pierce is the third in a series of articles on Knowledge
Management for beginners. By reading this article you will
become familiar with the concepts of intellectual and social
capital, together with the notion of Communities of Practice,
by them all being used to describe what takes place in and
around Café VIK at Fujitsu.
KNOWLEDGE
MANAGEMENT - A STRATEGIC PERSPECTIVE (.pdf)
April 2002 Larry Prusak - This article
published in KnowledgeBoard emphasizes the importance of
harnessing and creating knowledge and the strategies that
companies could follow to achieve sustainable competitive
advantage. The paper also highlights the role of creativity
and innovation in knowledge management.
MATERIAL
FROM A WORKSHOP ON COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE
December 2001 KnowledgeBoard - The Objective of the
workshop was to introduce the concept of communities of
practice understand how to launch a community answer specific
questions about communities in the European context. The
workshop was organised by Anne Jubert and Paul Hearn from the
KM team of the European Commission’s IST Programme and held
by Richard McDermott/McDermott Consulting. It was attended by
more than 50 participants from industry, consultancies,
academia and the European Commission.
BUILDING
AND SUSTAINING COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE
October 2001 APQC - This rather short article gives a
good introduction to the issue of building Communities of
Practice within organsations. The article is based on a larger
report issued by APQC (American Productivity and Quality
Center), and was published for a recent conference on the
issue. A publication featuring write-ups of conference
presentations should be available in the coming weeks from the
APQC website.
CASE
ON INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE
Research Hildreth 2001 - This research was what
provided Hildreth with his degree - and explains what happens
to people when they work together on long distances and
whether they are able to form Communities of Practice under
such circumstances.
SHOW
ME THE MONEY: A PRACTICAL FRAMEWORK FOR KM METRICS
September 2001 - A PowerPoint presentation by Sue
Hanley, Managing Director, Plural Inc. in which she outlines
some of the fundamentals of Knowledge Management / Communities
of Practice. The presentation is usufull for
practitioners who need to convince upper management of the
value of KM, when measures are required.
INTRODUCING
COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE
Innoversity.dk July 2001 - If you would like to know
what a community of practice is, and how organisations may be
viewed as constellations of communities of practice - this
article may provide you with a brief introduction and
references for further reading.
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