Jimmy: I would urge you to contact Juanita Brown to obtain a copy of her recent dissertation for the Fielding Institute: THE WORLD CAFE - LIVING KNOWLEDGE...
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matthew_simpson@...
Oct 1, 2001 6:33 pm
Ed Swanstrom shared the Call for CoP Standards with us, which contained... "We immediately need standards on soft technologies such as communities of practice,...
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Roy Greenhalgh
rgreenh@...
Oct 1, 2001 7:04 pm
In reply to Ed Swanstrom's call for CoP Standards Matthew Simpson made the following assertions:- ... I agree with Matthew on point 1). Re 2), I need to know...
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John D. Smith
smithjd@...
Oct 1, 2001 7:48 pm
Jim Palmer passed on a recommendation for this book, which I've gotten and started reading: Richard Donkin, Blood, Sweat and Tears (New York, NY: TEXERE,...
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Joe Eichel
flatbeat101@...
Oct 1, 2001 10:11 pm
Many of you might have read Hagel and Armstrong's "Net Gain". Nice book, but many examples that are being mentioned in the book are not really reasonable. The...
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John D. Smith
smithjd@...
Oct 1, 2001 10:34 pm
RE: [cp] Need your advice and recommend!! Jimmy, One distinction that may be helpful is between a practitioner's and a researcher's perspective. Although in...
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Scott Allen
scott.allen@...
Oct 2, 2001 6:19 am
Matthew: You have a misunderstanding of the word "technology". In the context Ed used, "technology" does not refer to the current colloquial "high ...
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Roy Greenhalgh
rgreenh@...
Oct 2, 2001 8:26 am
Scott Thanks for your attempt at clarifying two words. You are right to do this. W Edwards Deming was constantly trying to get people agree "operational ...
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alasdair honeyman
alasdair.honeyman@...
Oct 2, 2001 12:11 pm
Scott Great points Semantic reification, may do a disservice to language or may be not. I have been struggling with this one +++. Would the word architecture...
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Lilly3653@...
Oct 2, 2001 12:46 pm
Dear all, I have been following this conversation with great interest. I stopped myself from jumping in straight away as I am new to this cyber-group and was ...
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Fourth Wave Group, Inc.
laramie@...
Oct 2, 2001 2:06 pm
Joe, The "Net Gain" concept is good, in principle. I, too, was entranced at one time by the vision. The reality of human nature, or at least "business nature,"...
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drjmpirone@...
Oct 2, 2001 7:39 pm
A rose a snapdargon is not. But, gee they are flowers. Thar's safety in making non finite de finite a la definition. -Ification. JMP ... From: alasdair...
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alasdair honeyman
alasdair.honeyman@...
Oct 3, 2001 11:11 am
Saw this and thought of us all..... The Blind Men and the Elephant It was six men of Indostan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though...
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drjmpirone@...
Oct 3, 2001 11:34 am
Is it an elephant anyway?Nabokov said"Nuance is everything". The hues and aromas of all but the most techie languages are not processable, unless we make...
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Fourth Wave Group, Inc.
laramie@...
Oct 3, 2001 1:53 pm
My street (pragmatic) definition for technology is "Anything that has been invented since you personally reached puberty." Hey, it works! For my Mother of 89...
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nickols@...
Oct 3, 2001 8:22 pm
Gee, I thought Ed Swanstrom's call for CoP standards was positively scary; actually, "frightening" is probably a better word. Moreover, it was a call not just...
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Edward Swanstrom
edward-swanstrom@...
Oct 3, 2001 9:33 pm
Nickols, "The call for standards, then, is a thinly disguised call for control, something Ed seems to have been after with respect to KM for many years now." I...
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John D. Smith
smithjd@...
Oct 3, 2001 10:14 pm
Nancy White ran across this: Community of Practice: Starter Kit - The Department of Navy has invested significant resources developing their online...
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John D. Smith
smithjd@...
Oct 3, 2001 10:49 pm
Thanks to Ed, Matthew, Scott, Roy, Lilly, Laramie, and others for the views about standards. It seems to me that standards are pretty far off, given that we...
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Wright, Linda
l.wright@...
Oct 5, 2001 12:24 pm
Hello Everyone, I thought it was time that I introduced myself as I joined the group recently. My name is Linda Wright and I am a researcher at TU Delft...
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cbiber@...
Oct 5, 2001 5:44 pm
Linda: I have recently come across this handy comparison of CoP vs. teams (source: Department of the Navy). Hope this helps. Chris Biber Tomoye www.tomoye.com...
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Melissiecr@...
Oct 5, 2001 6:13 pm
Linda, Etienne Wenger and Bill Snyder wrote an article in the Jan-Feb, 2000 issue of HBR. This article includes a chart giving differences between teams, work...
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Richard McDermott
richard@...
Oct 6, 2001 2:36 pm
Linda, Welcome to com-prac. Another resource for you. I wrote an article in the Knowledge Management Review about the relative roles of communities and teams...
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Daniel D. Yiu
dianyu@...
Oct 7, 2001 1:00 am
Hi: I am a MA studnet in Organizational Psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University and also work as a research assistant at J.M. Huber Institute for ...
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Erat, Pablo
info@...
Oct 8, 2001 11:38 am
hello everyone, i was happy to find this community last week. please allow me to briefly introduce myself. i have been studying and working with CoP related...
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Steve Song
ssong@...
Oct 8, 2001 11:51 am
The following is a story of my recent experience at a KM workshop. Hope it may be of interest here. I have just left a workshop for KM focal points within the...
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matthew_simpson@...
Oct 8, 2001 2:17 pm
Here's the URL for Richard's article. Learning Across Teams: The Role of Communities of Practice in Team Organizations ...
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margmci@...
Oct 10, 2001 10:53 pm
Steve, I particularly liked your notes on the shift in thinking at the recent KM conference you attended. If you don't mind, I'd like to share the insights...
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Steve Song
ssong@...
Oct 11, 2001 7:03 am
Thanks Margaret, You and anyone else in com-prac may reproduce it with pleasure. Regards... Steve...
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Erat, Pablo
info@...
Oct 15, 2001 12:45 pm
thank you margaret, i believe that this example demonstrates what we all are experiencing when discussing about knowledge management with professionals. there...
