Best Practices: Developing Communities That Provide Business Value Export

@incollection{KNICOP_13, abstract = {Organizations continually look for ways to do more with less. One of the most important methods today for helping improve the company bottom line involves linking experts in Communities of Practice to find, share and validate best practices, ideas and solutions. This chapter examines how several best-practice organizations select Communities of Practice, provide support for their ongoing work, develop specialized roles to sustain their efforts, and use technology to bolster the rich tacit knowledge exchange offered by these entities. APQC has also developed a list of critical success factors for Communities of Practice and questions to help organizations develop those factors from its research on Knowledge Management over the last 8 years.}, address = {Hershey, PA}, author = {Lopez, Kimberly and Vestal, Wesley}, booktitle = {Knowledge Networks: Innovation through Communities of Practice}, chapter = {13}, citeulike-article-id = {2663631}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.chris-kimble.co./KNICOP/Chapters/Chapter_13.html}, editor = {Hildreth, Paul and Kimble, Chris}, keywords = {collaboration, communities\_of\_practice, community\_building, community\_of\_practice, cop, expert\_seeking, explicit\_knowledge, is\_design\_issues, it\_platform, km, knicop, knowledge, knowledge\_base, knowledge\_management, knowledge\_process, knowledge\_sharing, knowledgemanagement, management\_issues, networks\_of\_practice, organizational\_learning, set\_of\_guidelines, tacit}, pages = {142--149}, posted-at = {2008-04-13 14:59:35}, priority = {2}, publisher = {IGI Global}, title = {Best Practices: Developing Communities That Provide Business Value}, url = {http://www.chris-kimble.co./KNICOP/Chapters/Chapter_13.html}, year = {2004} }

TY - CHAP ID - KNICOP_13 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2663631 N2 - Organizations continually look for ways to do more with less. One of the most important methods today for helping improve the company bottom line involves linking experts in Communities of Practice to find, share and validate best practices, ideas and solutions. This chapter examines how several best-practice organizations select Communities of Practice, provide support for their ongoing work, develop specialized roles to sustain their efforts, and use technology to bolster the rich tacit knowledge exchange offered by these entities. APQC has also developed a list of critical success factors for Communities of Practice and questions to help organizations develop those factors from its research on Knowledge Management over the last 8 years. AD - Hershey, PA EP - 149 TI - Best Practices: Developing Communities That Provide Business Value PB - IGI Global T2 - Knowledge Networks: Innovation through Communities of Practice SP - 142 KW - collaboration KW - communities_of_practice KW - community_building KW - community_of_practice KW - cop KW - expert_seeking KW - explicit_knowledge KW - is_design_issues KW - it_platform KW - km KW - knicop KW - knowledge KW - knowledge_base KW - knowledge_management KW - knowledge_process KW - knowledge_sharing KW - knowledgemanagement KW - management_issues KW - networks_of_practice KW - organizational_learning KW - set_of_guidelines KW - tacit AU - Lopez, Kimberly AU - Vestal, Wesley A2 - Hildreth, Paul A2 - Kimble, Chris PY - 2004/// UR - http://www.chris-kimble.co./KNICOP/Chapters/Chapter_13.html ER -