organization

Organizational culture?

NOTICE: There is an updated version of all these FAQs on our new website: See new FAQs Do we need to change our organizational culture first? Organizational culture can work against communities of practice, if it is individualistic, competitive, and focused on the short term. Changing organizational culture is very difficult. Change initiatives to address […]

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Power in organizations?

NOTICE: There is an updated version of all these FAQs on our new website: See new FAQs What about power? Wouldn’t communities become a threat to the organizational hierarchy? Existing across an organization’s formal structures, communities of practice rarely derive much power directly from positions in formal hierarchies. But communities do not usually seek positional

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Institutionalizing communities of practice?

NOTICE: There is an updated version of all these FAQs on our new website: See new FAQs Should organizations institutionalize communities of practice? Because of this tension between vertical and horizontal processes, integrating communities of practice in an organization is an exercise in paradox. Organizations tend to pay attention to structures or issues by institutionalizing

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Value to organizations?

NOTICE: There is an updated version of all these FAQs on our new website: See new FAQs Why should organizations pay attention to communities of practice and networks? Communities of practice are the perfect vehicle for involving practitioners directly in the management of the knowledge they need individually and collectively to do their work. As

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