Cultivating communities of practice

contents :
chapter one Communities of Practice and Their Value to Organizations......Page 16
chapter two Communities of Practice and Their Structural Elements......Page 38
chapter three Seven Principles for Cultivating Communities of Practice......Page 64
chapter four The Early Stages of Development Planning and Launching Communities of Practice......Page 80
chapter five The Mature Stages of Development Growing and Sustaining Communities of Practice......Page 108
chapter six The Challenge of Distributed Communities......Page 128
chapter seven The Downside of Communities of Practice......Page 154
chapter eight Measuring and Managing Value Creation......Page 176
chapter nine Community-Based Knowledge Initiatives......Page 202
chapter ten Reweaving the World Communities beyond Organizations......Page 234
Notes......Page 248
Bibliography......Page 276