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Tuesday, August 10, 2004

HBS Working Knowledge: Organizations: Seven Principles for Cultivating Communities of Practice:

Seven Principles for Cultivating Communities of Practice


March 25, 2002

Although communities of practice develop organically, a carefully crafted design can drive their evolution. In this excerpt from a new book, the authors detail seven design principles. The payoff? Knowledge management that works.
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by Etienne Wenger, Richard McDermott, and William M. Snyder

Seven principles for cultivating communities of practice
In Silicon Valley, a community of circuit designers meets for a lively debate about the merits of two different designs developed by one of the participants. Huddling together over the circuit diagrams, they analyze possible faults, discuss issues of efficiency, propose alternatives, tease out each other's assumptions, and make the case for their view. In Boston, a group of social "

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