Why Should You Pay Attention
to Your Communities of Practice?

Core competences don't reside in the abstractions of management theories.

In the real world of organizations, they reside and grow in communities of practice.

Communities of Practice and their networks can help you:

 a) organize work in ways that makes people grow and be happy
 b) accelerate business cycles
 c) learn faster than the competition

Communities of Practice deliver their value proposition by: 

• Developing and spreading better practices faster

• Connecting "islands of knowledge" into self-organizing, knowledge sharing networks of professional communities

• Feeding and being fed by web-based repositories of both proven solutions and new approaches

• Fostering cross-functional and cross-divisional collaboration

• Increasing your members' ability to initiate and contribute to projects across organizational boundaries