Communities of Practice: A Guide For Your Journey to Knowledge Management Best Practices (Passport to Success, 1) - Softcover

American Productivity & Quality Center

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1928593488 ISBN 13: 9781928593485

Publisher: Amer Productivity Center, 2002

Synopsis

As one of the titles in the American Productivity & Quality Center's Passport to Success series, Communities of Practice: A Guide For Your Journey to Knowledge Management Best Practices guides readers in their efforts to build, support, and sustain communities of practice (CoPs).

Learn how to create communities that provide value to their members and to the organization, using insights from APQC's KM specialists. Supported by examples of best practices and tips from actual practitioners, this book details CoP cultivation, strategy, distinctions, support structures, funding models, measures, and development approaches.

About this title

About the Author

For more than two decades the American Productivity & Quality Center has remained steadfast in its mission of working with people and organizations around the world to improve productivity and quality. A nonprofit organization supported by nearly 500 companies, government organizations, and educational institutions, we:

--discover, research, and understand emerging and effective methods of both individual and organizational improvement;
--broadly disseminate our findings through education, advisory, and information services; and
--connect individuals with one another and with the knowledge, resources, and tools they need to successfully manage improvement and change.

APQC has become a world-renowned resource for process and performance improvement for organizations of all sizes across all industries. We provide the tools, information, expertise, and support needed to discover and implement best practices in a variety of areas.

Edition details

• Publisher: Amer Productivity Center
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1928593488
• ISBN 13: 9781928593485
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 75