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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

USAID Community of Practice Pilots Project

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This is an executive summary of a recently completed USAID pilot project with Communities of Practice which took place from March 2003 through August 2003.

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Exec_Summary_USAID_CoP_Pilotsv2.0.1.doc

2002 Thematic Group Leader Survey

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This report, written by the World Bank Institute, examines the state of TGs today and complements the work of the Operations Evaluation Dept.

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KS_2002_TGLeaderSurvey.pdf

Thematic Group Survey

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This report on the World Bank's communities of practice - Thematic Groups - was written by the Operations Evaluation Department.

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TG_Leader_Survey_Findings_7-12-02.doc

Communities of Practice: Lessons from Latin America

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INTRAC Praxis Note no. 16, by Brenda Bucheli and Gabriela Romo.

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Experiences with Communities of Practice in India

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This Working Paper is the outcome of a short study commissioned by Intercooperation on existing communities of practice (CoPs) in the development sector in India. CoPs have come to prominence amongst many organisations in the context of Knowledge Management. This paper explores a number of pertinent experiences from the private sector, but focuses on experiences in the development sector in India.

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ic-india-wp-1-CoPs.pdf

SDC Thematic Service Knowledge and Research: Focus on Knowledge, number 10

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SDC's Thematic Service Knowledge and Research FOCUS on KNOWLEDGE is about initiatives, events, processes, achievements, lessons and new questions. Special Issue no. 10 is on Communities of Practice.

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FOCUS on KNOWLEDGE X final version extern2.doc

Communities of Practice (COP) - from Own to Shared Knowledge

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SDC has published a flyer that provides in a nutshell a good understanding of what a Community of Practice is and what its main characteristics are. The flyer is available in English, French, Spanish and German. It can be downloaded from the SDC COP website.

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COP_Flyer_CoP_english.pdf

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