Community of Practice
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Definitionen
“A group of people who come together to A group of people who come together to learn from each other by sharing knowledge learn from each other by sharing knowledge and experiences about the activities in and experiences about the activities in which they are engaged which they are engaged” (Wenger, 1998)
"Communities of practice are groups of people who share a passion for something that they know how to do and who interact regularly to learn how to do it better." (Wenger 2002)
Methoden
Cultivate Communities of Practice (E. Wenger)
Details siehe Cultivating communities of practice - a quick start-up-guide.
- set strategic context: A strategic context lets communities find a legitimate place in the organization.
- educate: Communities of practice are a familiar experience, but people need to understand how they fit in their work.
- Conduct workshops to educate management and potential members about the approach
- Help people appreciate how communities of practice are inherently self-defined and self-managed
- Establish a language to legitimize communities and establish their place in the organization
- support: Communities of practice can use some light-handedguidance and technology infrastructure.
- Provide some process support, coaching, and logistic assistance
- Identify needs and define adequate infrastructure without undue emphasis on fancy technology
- get going: Starting to cultivate communities of practice as early as possible creates early examples that allow people to learn by doing.
- Have a few pilot communities going as soon as possible
- Find communities to start with by identifying areas where there is potential and readiness
- Interview some prospective members to understand issues, start discussing a community, and identify potential leaders
- Gather a core group to prepare and initiate a launch process
- Help members organize an initial series of value-adding activities
- Encourage them to take increasing responsibility for stewarding their knowledge
- encourage: Practitioners usually see the value of working as a community but may feel the organization is not aligned with their understanding.
- Find sponsors to encourage participation
- Value the work of communities
- Publicize successes
- integrate: The formal organization must have processes and structure to include these communities while honoring their root in personal passion and engagement.
- Integrate communities in the way the organization works
- Identify and remove obvious barriers
- Align key structural and cultural elements
Experten
Organisationen
- CPSquare (The Community of Practice on Communities of Practice)
- Caterpillar (Anwender)
- EADS Airbus (Anwender)
- Schaeffler KG (Anwender)
- Siemens AG (Anwender)
- Volkswagen AG (Anwender)
Veranstaltungen
Literatur
- ABWF (Hrsg.): QUEM Report Heft 85 - Wissenserzeugung und -austausch in Wissensgemeinschaften - Communities of Practice. 2004
- Etienne Wenger: "Cultivating Communities of Practice", ISBN 1578513308
- Etienne Wenger: "Communities of Practice - Learning, Meaning, Identity", ISBN 0521663636
- Etienne Wenger, William Snyder: “Communities of practice: the organizational frontier”, Harvard Business Review, (January-February 2000), 139-145.
- Etienne Wenger: Cultivating communities of practice - a quick start-up-guide. 2002
- Hubert Saint-Onge, Debra Wallace: Leveraging Communities of Practice for Strategic Advantage. 2002, ISBN 075067458X
- Klaus North, Kai Romhardt: Wissensgemeinschaften - Keimzellen lebendigen Wissensmanagements.
- Laurie Lock Lee: Leading Network Development Practices in 2002 - A Literature Review. 2002
- Paul Hildreth, Chris Kimble: Knowledge Networks: Innovation through Communities of Practice. 2004, ISBN 1591402700
- William Snyder: Communities of Practice: Combining Organizational Learning and Strategy Insights to Create a Bridge to the 21st Century. 1997