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Friday, November 17, 2006
Communities of Practice - David Snowden, Cognitive Edge
I was an observer in a debate recently on the question of whether a community of practice had to be self-organising, or if it could be directed. My own view is that communities can evolve, but cannot be designed top down. Of course you can stimulate and direct evolution. However a CoP "Roll out" plan always gets me worried. The original work on this was done by Wenger and in the debate he was being criticised for basing his theory on the endpoint of a process that had taken years to evolve.
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