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Excellent article from Steve Dale on building and sustaining Communities of Practice

See how involvement in communities of practice, is helping Rio Tinto people share expertise and collaborate across the group.

"This book explains very important aspects of the relevance and representativeness of the state of investigation into the concept of CoPs and their degree of acceptance and the creation of  a theoretical reference frame in contemporary society and economy. This relevance becomes clear on examining the wide variety of subject areas in the contents of the twenty-five chapters in this study, organized into five sections, each with its own area of interest, used to explain the practical and theoretical reach of CoPs.

" This one day intensive programme may be of interest to anyone who faciltates Communities of Practice within your organisation."

""An online forum an early stage Community of Practice on Organizational Network Analysis (ONA)." Participants include Patti Anklam, Bruce Hoppe and Seth Earley"

Rio Tinto Communities of Practice - Video about Sharing best practise and expertise across the Rio Tinto Group using collaborative tools

Gavin, KIN has had conversations in the past about knowledge transfer with the Technology Strategy Board . They seem to be predominantly about facilitating commerce between universities and industry. They don't seem to be interested in the subtleties of communities of practice, or the behavioral aspects of collaboration. We seemed to be talking different languages. Maybe we haven't engaged with the right people yet!

"For more information about this site and contents, please contact Margaret Demian at the NHSi"

" . This event was the launch event for the CoPs benchmarking Study phase two and includes presentations from Larry Prusak and Richard McDermott"