Cultivating Communities of Practice
Wenger, E., McDermott, R., and Snyder, W. (2002) Cultivating Communities of Practice: A guide to managing knowledge, Boston, MA, Harvard Business School Press.
This book followed Wenger’s 1998 book about communities of practice. The former book focused more on theory, while this book outlines ways in which communities of practice can be cultivated.
My reading notes
Ch. 1: Communities of practice and their value to organizations
Ch. 2: Communities of practice and their structural elements
Ch. 3: Seven principles for cultivating communities of practice
Ch. 4: The early stages of development
Ch. 5: The mature stages of development
Ch. 6: The challenge of distributed communities
Ch. 7: The downside of communities of practice
Ch. 8: Measuring and managing value creation
Ch. 9: Community-based knowledge initiatives
Ch. 10: Reweaving the world