Shiite “Communities of Practice” in Germany

Sensemaking in Communities of Practice

ions that simplify in the interest of action. The content of the abstractions is the result of socialisation reflecting the ideology of the organisation. Since theories of action are abstractions, it could be expected that they are crude maps of the territory of action. That is why the distinction between theories-in use and espoused theories is not entirely clear. Ryle distinguishes between th...

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...