Value-Creation by Communities of Practice

The amount of energy that has been put in this blog as part of the ECCoP projects has declined in the last year, yet the activities behind the scenes have not. The blog will keep playing a role in ...

Etienne Wenger has written a 36 page document entitled: "Learning for a small planet: a research agenda" that proposes the next stage of his research. The executive summary & paper can be found onl...

George Por wrote in a recent comment: When the organization can identify and measure this contribution from the community, the bond between the organization and the community will improve. I can...

To assure a successful relationship with an organization, a community must choose one or more high-priority, strategic objectives of the organization which they can support through activity. The hi...

"Learning is best understood as an interaction among practitioners, rather than a process in which a producer provides knowledge to a consumer." (Etienne Wenger)

This entry contains the description of the anticipated flow of International Executive Workshop on "Communities of Practice and Community-enabled Strategic Results from Self-Organisation" at the Lo...

Identifying business drivers for community development is easy, but pointing out the ones which are of strategic priority for the business requires that...

If the senior management team is going to take the risk of shifting their organization from a purely heirarchical model to one which cultivates and integrates communities, then business drivers mus...

If our communities are to grow, evolve and reach their full potential, then their strategic value has to be acknowledged and appreciated. To get there, first, the value of community-enabled strateg...

Many successful companies are finding that relinquishing some control — specifically by creating the conditions that enable employees to self-organize in virtual communities — is an effective strat...