Cultivating communities of practice
Subtitle: A guide to managing knowledge
By: Etienne Wenger, Richard McDermott, William Snyder.
Contributors: McDermott, Richard A.; Snyder, William, 1956-
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Boston, Mass
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 284
Subjects: Knowledge management; Organizational learning; Gestion des connaissances; Apprentissage organisationnel; Aprendizagem organizacional
First sentence: Some connections are inevitable. (from the preface)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-274) and index.
Table of contents: title: Communities of practice and their value to organizations; title: Communities of practice and their structural elements; title: Seven principles for cultivating communities of practice; title: The early stages of development: planning and launching communities of practice; title: The mature stages of development: growing and sustaining communities of practice; title: The challenge of distributed communities; title: The downside of communities of practice; title: Measuring and managing value creation; title: Community-based knowledge initiatives; title: Reweaving the world: communities beyond organizations.