714 Articles match "Collaboration","Practice"

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• Understanding Communities of Practice
  
  A great series of articles well-worth the time to read if you are interested in Communities of Practice: Communities of Practice (CoPs) CoP Series #4: Practice Makes Perfect CoP Series #5: Is my community a community of practice? CoP Series #2: What the heck is a Domain and why should I care? CoP Series #3: Community - without people?
  Collaborative Thinking - Friday, March 6, 2009
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• Dealing with process and practice around collaboration
  
  I wrote about eating or fishing last week, and about the same time Bill Ives posted Is there Tension in Enterprise Collaboration (referencing Bruce Lewin's detailed thoughts in The Tension in Collaboration ). Now jump to an article from Ross Mayfield on Leadership and Management of Distributed Collaboration . But there is a direct connection The thing that caught me about this idea of Tension is often between those looking for formal process vs. those that want it loose and human.
  Knowledge Musings - Monday, September 15, 2008
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• Profiting from Collaboration
  
  This is terrific example of purposeful collaboration delivering results. The opportunity to collaborate generated many tangible benefits for both companies. And that's not surprising because a collaboration experience can improve the level of conversation, energise teams and have a positive impact on the bottomline. Google and P&G are both known for their innovation capabilities and strict internal policy. Driven by market forces, they made an exception.
  Anecdote - Tuesday, January 20, 2009
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• Communities of Practice
  
  practice communities of practice The idea that learning involves a deepening process of participation in a community of practice has gained significant ground in recent years. Communities of practice have also become an important focus within organizational development and have considerable value when thinking about working with groups. In this article ideas ? thinkers ? Furthermore, we often assume that learning 'has a beginning and an end; that it is best separated from the rest of our activities; and that it is the result of teaching'
  www.infed.org - Thursday, November 19, 2009
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• Emergent practices need practice
  
  Learning as we probe the problem, we gain insight and our practices are emergent (emerging from our interaction with the changing environment and the problem). Training looks backwards, at what worked in the past (good & best practices), and creates a controlled environment to develop knowledge and skills. To deal with increasing complexity, organizations need to support emergent work practices, in addition I think that one of the larger problems of our time, is that we we don’t even know how to think about many of today’s problems. We think that our
  Harold Jarche - Friday, April 24, 2009
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• Getting started with Collaboration tools
  
  One of the things people find most valuable about our Building a Collaborative Workplace workshop is that it gives them a good solid understanding of what makes collaboration possible and some practical ideas on getting started. Here's a list of 9 collaboration tools you can introduce your colleagues. Most people are web 2.0 savvy.
  Anecdote - Monday, November 10, 2008
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• Communities of Practice
  
  I’m reviewing my resources on communities of practice and synthesizing some of the articles I’ve come across and added to my social bookmarks or blogged about on my Communities Thread . One of the best sources of practical knowledge on online community building is Anecdote from Australia. In Building a Collaborative Workplace , they discuss three types of As they say, “ Our purpose is to provide an understanding of the type of culture required to support collaboration. ” 8221;
  Harold Jarche - Friday, March 13, 2009
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• Share Best Practices - Patterns
  
  Interesting post by Jane Bozarth - The Myth of "Best Practices" . A "best practice" is best only in the precise, specific context in which it exists. … What works in my marriage won't necessarily work in -- and may even damage -- yours. Even if moved from one situation to another very close one, the odds of transfer being made with practice intact is nil. How do we address those who pressure us to produce a list of, or abide by, "best" practices? The comments are also interesting but focus primarily on the word "best" vs. "leading"
  elearning Technology - Monday, March 23, 2009
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• How I use social media
  
  knew from that experience that whenever we talked about technology (social media) we needed to also talk about practice and the human beings doing the practicing. This is true of both the technology and the practices. Michele and I built on the foundational work of Lisa Kimball (then of Metanet , now of GroupJazz ) and began to articulate the practice of doing stuff together online.  This afternoon I’m spending a half hour on a Skype video conversation to share a bit of how I use social media. I
  Nancy White's Full Circle Blog - Tuesday, August 4, 2009
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• OpenTeams - Collaborative Innovation for The Entrepreneurial Organization
  
  In addition to project collaboration , blogging , social networking , community building , and knowledge management , OpenTeams is an innovative initiative development solution where employees collaboratively seed and mature new ideas for additional revenue, productivity, and cost-savings. Unlike normal wikis, which suffer from user apathy and confusion, OpenTeams is intuitive for non-techies to learn and use. This dramatically shrinks the learning curve and ensures adoption while ramping up productivity, payback, and employee engagement.
  openteams.com - Thursday, March 5, 2009
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