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Harnessing your Staff's informal networks by Richard McDermott and Douglas Archibald

" Summary of Richard McDermott and Douglas Archibald's KIN / IKON Phase l CoPs benchmarking study"

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!

"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.

A well researched and interesting presentation on the power of conversation in contextual knowledge sharing. From Lesley Thomson of the Scottish Centre for Regeneration.

Look for the Fujitsu case study

A lot of organizations are struggling with what to do with a host of costly, high-maintenance technologies that they have introduced in the last decade, hoping these technologies would produce (a) improved internal productivity, and (b) better relationships with customers. They have achieved neither objective. So they're stuck with some very large and expensive lemons, three in particular:

Clickable Powerpoint version of the KIN KRT Framework

Great guidelines to implementing a enterprise wiki, including behaviours for adoption, roles, approach, etc