Recently he has been sharing some of his practice (I.e Check out the very specific practice categories in his right nav bar if you are looking for ideas about how to share what you/your community knows!) So first, this is simply a pointer to a useful practice. That is the difference of a community of practice. MORE >>

How might we best go about improving knowledge work, both practices and outputs, in today’s complex organizational environment? Peter Drucker, in his typical way, pointed out that the key to understanding and improving knowledge work (PDF) was that there was no defined task to be optimized. Practices worth investigating. MORE >>

Communities of practice: Linking knowledge, policy and practice – is a paper that Simon Hearn from the Overseas Development Institute and I have been puttering on for quite some months. Likewise, tacit knowledge from the field rarely reaches the researchers or those making decisions. Published by ODI. by theother66. MORE >>

www.straitsknowledge.com blog articles how-to guides events publications book videos about Introduction to Communities of Practice This is the second in a series of three recent workshops on different approaches to getting knowledge transfer going in your organisation. This one is an introduction to Communities of Practice. MORE >>

This seems to be the direction of most of the "best practice" discussions I have seen in KM circles. Unfortunately, the thing that best practices usually focus on is the obvious actions that have changed. And project based organizations or knowledge-work organizations have even less replication. Sounds like a good idea, right? MORE >>