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Assessing the Value of Communities of Practice: Developing a Valuation Tool for the FPS of Canada

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Full text (in PDF) of Vicky Carpio Tam's MBA thesis. November 2003.

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Assessing the Value of Communities of Practice: Summary of Findings

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Vicky Carpio Tam is an employee of Fisheries & Oceans Canada currently on education leave, doing her MBA thesis on the value that Communities of Practice bring to federal government organizations. This is a summary of findings from a survey sent to Canadian government agencies in September 2002.

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CoP_Summary_of_Findings.pdf

Cultivating Communities of Practice

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This is Etienne Wenger's presentation on Cultivating Communities of Practice from Day 1 of the Ottawa Workshop.

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03-05-12_IRDC_Etienne_Wenger.ppt

Incentives for Communities

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Matrix submitted by Violeta Fuduric, Communities Specialist, USAID/PPC/DEI/DIS. Based on responses received to a KS incentives question on the KM4dev mailing list.

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INCENTIVES_for_COMMUNITIES_Matrix.doc

Collaborative Planning for Economic Regions

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A regional focus on planning and economic development requires that all sectors work together in partnership to attend to community needs and to capitalize on community opportunities. Public, private, educational, and not-for-profit organizations all have unique capabilities to contribute. Smith Weaver Smith have identified three cultural transformations essential for resource development and economic and educational engagement in the 21st century, which are described in this document

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Collaborative_Regional_Planning_text_only.doc

Measuring the benefits of Knowledge Management at FSA

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This is a paper by Ros Jones of the Financial Services Authority in the UK government which introduces research being undertaken on evaluating KM.

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measuringKM.pdf

Sharing Knowledge: Innovations and Remaining Challenges

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In 1996, the World Bank made a commitment to develop a world-class knowledge management system and to improve and expand the sharing of development knowledge with clients and partners. This independent evaluation finds that while the initiative has allowed staff, clients, and partners to have faster and easier access to Bank knowledge, the new knowledge sharing activities have not been tightly linked to the Bank’s core lending and non-lending processes. As a result, their impact on Bank development effectiveness has been limited. Now entering the seventh year of its knowledge initiative, the Bank needs to move deliberately to embed knowledge sharing processes in its core business processes and manage its knowledge services for results.

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knowledge_evaluation.pdf

World Bank OED Reach Precis

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2-page summary of the World Bank evaluation "Sharing Knowledge: Innovations and Remaining Challenges".

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KSWBprecis.pdf

Advisory Practice from SNV and use of KM

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"In order to provide its partners-clients with relevant, state-of-the-art advice, it is absolutely logical that knowledge management is a key aspect of the SNV organisation." "As an organisation with some 700 professionals worldwide, each involved in networks of relevant knowledge, we are already a warehouse and broker in knowledge. But we have acknowledged in chapter 1 of this document that our performance as a knowledge-based organisation can be improved. And we have concluded that our role with regard to knowledge is changing from an expert transferring knowledge, to an expert facilitat-ing knowledge exchange and enrichment. In general, we agree that knowledge is also power. Knowledge is hardly ever neutral and always tends to serve certain interests or perceptions against others. That is not a problem but it requires our staff to be aware of that." From SNVs Advisory Practice, Emerging Lines, Connecting Peoples Capacities, 31 July 2002

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Key Success Factors for Knowledge Management

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The purpose of this thesis by Kavindra Mathi is to gain a better understanding of how some factors are critical for the successful application of Knowledge Management.

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Knowledge Sharing: Methods, Meetings and Tools

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Handbook produced by CIDA's KM Secretariat.

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outils.en.pdf

Le Partage des connaissances: Méthodes, espaces et outils

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Guide produit par le Secrétariat de la gestion des connaissances de l'ACDI.

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outils.fr.pdf

Sharing Knowledge to Enhance Development Work – Challenges and Limits

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There are different types of knowledge and unfortunately they are often mixed up. For the management of knowledge it is imperative to differentiate and to be clear which kind of knowledge can be managed and which escapes all attempts of being managed. And maybe it is the non-manageable part that is most decisive for development work.

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The Knowledge Management Spectrum - Understanding the KM Landscape

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An interesting framework by Derek Binney to understand the different KM theories, applications and tools.

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Human Resources Practices Related to a Knowledge-Based Workforce

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PowerPoint presentation by Jennifer Smith of the Governance Network.

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HRPractices-JS.ppt

Incentives for Communities

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Matrix submitted by Violeta Fuduric, Communities Specialist, USAID/PPC/DEI/DIS. Based on responses received to a KS incentives question on the KM4dev mailing list.

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INCENTIVES_for_COMMUNITIES_Matrix.doc

Information Technology as a Jealous Mistress: Competition for Knowledge Between Individuals and Orgs

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"Information technology may play the role of a jealous mistress when it comes to the relationship between individual and organizational knowledge creation. Information technology can facilitate the dissemination of knowledge across the organization - even to the point of making virtual groups a viable alternative to face-to-face work. However, unless managed, the combination of information technology and virtual work may serve to change the distribution of tacit versus explicit knowledge within the organization."

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Constructing the knowledge base for knowledge-driven development

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Article by Robin Mansell which deal more with the "digital divide" and knowledge networks than knowledge management.

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mansell.pdf

Focus on Knowledge - Number 7

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SDC's Thematic Service Knowledge and Research produces this newsletter "about initiatives, events, processes, achievements, lessons and new questions" related to KM and development.

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FOCUS_on_KNOWLEDGE_VII_050317_externe.doc

In the Know: Lessons in Knowledge Management

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Article by Nick Wright . In Training Technology & Human Resources , March-April, pp14-15. Lessons learned from Tearfund's Learning and Development Manager.