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A "Community of Practice" (CoP) is defined as an informal network of people engaged in a particular profession, occupation, or job function who actively seek to work more effectively and to understand their work more fully.

CoPs can span institutional structures and hierarchies; they can work across business units or even across company boundaries.

While traditional knowledge management approaches attempt to capture existing knowledge within formal systems, such as databases, communities can prove to be more effective for knowledge sharing and transfer and, in particular, for problem solving.

CoPs can be dynamic and can last for as long or as short a time as their members need them to exist.

They tend to be self-forming and self governing, but at the same time there are certain formulas, techniques and tools that can facilitate the creation and operation of dynamic, productive communities.

Video: Seth Kahan: Business Performance Communities



Seth Kahan  explains to a business audience what "Business Performance Communities" are and how organizations can cultivate them to tackle some of their toughest problems.

David Gurteen's comments: This is a great little video clip from Seth where to my mind he makes it absolutely clear what you need to do to make a community of practice successful. Like all KM initiatives it is about selling the value to business managers on the "business outcomes" and to the participants on "what's in it for them"!

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Article
  Knowledge Café on 'The role of conversation in business' - Wed 16 Oct 2002 by Anna McAvoy 

Book
  Leveraging Communities of Practice for Strategic Advantage (Oct 2002) by Hubert Saint-Onge, Debra Wallace 

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  Communities of Practice [34 items]

Gurteen Knowledge Café
  Gurteen Community Cafe, Adelaide - Australia
Gurteen Community Cafés.

  Gurteen Community Cafe, Bristol - England
Gurteen Knowledge Cafés.

  Gurteen Community Cafe, Liverpool - England
Gurteen Community Cafés.

  Gurteen Community Café, London - England
Gurteen Community Cafés.

  Gurteen Community Cafe, New York City - United States
Gurteen Community Cafés.

  Gurteen Community Cafe, Zurich - Switzerland
Gurteen Community Cafés.

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  CPsquare
The community of practice on communities of practice

  Full Circle Associates
Community development & e-facilitation site

  SIFT
Provider of online community know-how & technology

Media File
  Video: Seth Kahan: Business Performance Communities

  Video: Starting Communities of Practice
Starting Communities of Practice by Patrick Lambe

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  Etienne Wenger Communities of Practice Consultant

  Hubert Saint-Onge Founder & Principal of SaintOnge Alliance

   Richard McDermott President of McDermott Consulting

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  On community by M. Scott Peck Psychiatrist & author

   On viewing reality and the role community by Timothy Wilken 

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Gurteen Community Cafés.

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