Tapping Communities of Practice

Organizing and Tapping Consumer Communities

This paper provides a framework that links consumer efforts to commercial innovation. It seeks to answer the question why some firms are able to benefit from relations to their consumers. It proposes that (some) firms can improve their product development by organizing consumer communities and by relying on a critical mass of dedicated consumers. It shows how convergence between new technology ...

Recalling communities of practice.

Virtual Communities of Practice

When knowledge management (KM) began to emerge in the 1990s it was seen as an innovative solution to the problems of managing knowledge in a competitive and increasingly internationalised business environment. However, in practice it was often little more than information management re-badged (Wilson, 2002). More recently, there has been recognition of the importance of more subtle, softer type...

HPC Communities of Practice

Writing software for HPC systems is a task fraught with many challenges. We argue when developed in an open community of practice, many of these challenges can be captured and solved benefiting many. Additionally we call to the well established rule that software for a larger community is as a guide for building better tools.

Cultivating Communities of Practice

Cultivating Communities of Practice is one of the most important books to be published in the KM field in the last few years. It is both catching and defining a trend. In some ways the arguments that are put forward in this book have been knocking around the KM industry for a number of years-ever since Wenger wrote his seminal book in 1998 on Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning and Ident...