Making Communities of Practice Work in the Real World

Making Communities of Practice Work in the Real World

This is the third and final article on Communities of Practice (COPs), a model designed to help align business strategy with the evolving knowledge and experience of your people, while still taking advantage of the efficiencies that can be gained through more formal...
Communities of Practice: The Three Essential Elements

Communities of Practice: The Three Essential Elements

Last month I introduced Communities of Practice, a model designed to help align business strategy with the evolving knowledge and experience of its people, while still taking advantage of the efficiencies that can be gained through more formal organisations and...
Forming Communities of Practice to Reinvigorate Business

Forming Communities of Practice to Reinvigorate Business

A colleague from one of New Zealand’s emerging winners in the software development market tells me that, despite its success, he is concerned about whether he is utilising the very expensive specialists in his business to best effect. He bemoaned: “It seems the bigger...