Many companies are gaining a competitive business advantage through the use of internal open source projects and the advent of communities of practices to harness collective intelligence
Our story begins with a very successful community of practice-based Knowledge Management program on SharePoint
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Whether we are collaborating face to face, on a conference call, or in a community of practice discussion thread, the additive input from others adds to the knowledge we have and we create new knowledge
“Knowledge networks (or Communities of Practice) are collections of people who harness the power of social platforms to do great things.”
My early years were spent implementing a Communities of Practice methodology using Livelink and automating business processes using the basic workflow tools
You decide to add knowledge to the repository, or update your SME profile, or attend a community of practice meeting, or mentor a colleague, or attend a company function, or network at a conference
That's the bartering system of contacts, pointers, and project experience known in consulting circles as a community of practice -- crowdsourcing with clearly defined markers: a deal in need of closing chased by a fast-approaching deadline
And of course, because every piece of content and comment is attributed to its author, you are able to see who within the organisation is knowledgeable subject or interested in a particular, providing a platform for building communities of practice or interest
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Imagine an outfit with benchmarks to compare and targets to hit around content quality, metadata mapping, and expanding (let alone preserving) communities of practice? Imagine a new co. where my IP is your IP and we’re not just building the future together but doing it in an operationally coherent way
Repurpose your community of practice postings and attachments as searchable discussion scopes
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