Recalling communities of practice

Recalling communities of practice.

Virtual Communities of Practice

When knowledge management (KM) began to emerge in the 1990s it was seen as an innovative solution to the problems of managing knowledge in a competitive and increasingly internationalised business environment. However, in practice it was often little more than information management re-badged (Wilson, 2002). More recently, there has been recognition of the importance of more subtle, softer type...

HPC Communities of Practice

Writing software for HPC systems is a task fraught with many challenges. We argue when developed in an open community of practice, many of these challenges can be captured and solved benefiting many. Additionally we call to the well established rule that software for a larger community is as a guide for building better tools.

Cultivating Communities of Practice

Cultivating Communities of Practice is one of the most important books to be published in the KM field in the last few years. It is both catching and defining a trend. In some ways the arguments that are put forward in this book have been knocking around the KM industry for a number of years-ever since Wenger wrote his seminal book in 1998 on Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning and Ident...

Putting more practice into communities of practice

The Paper is based on the evaluation of a sample of communities of practice formed with funding from Reframing the Future in 2002. The paper provides three good practice examples from the 2002 communities that were effective in identifying, reflecting upon and improving their practice, such as their ideas, tools and work styles. This reflection on practice was particularly apparent in the follo...