Wanted to let you know that Pam Essley (with a little help from me) has gathered up links to great IT resources and an extensive set of links to Electronic...
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Paul Ford
pmford3@...
May 2, 2000 1:39 am
... eGroups got me again! The link above was wrapped by the eGroups posting software and so the full address was lost. Here's the correct link for the Best of...
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John D. Smith
smithjd@...
May 2, 2000 10:33 pm
A few weeks ago I sat in on the weekly meeting of an interesting community of practice. I think many of you might also be interested in this little case study...
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Dori Digenti
digenti@...
May 4, 2000 10:54 am
Colleagues, First, John thanks for providing the field notes as a "collaborative object" that we can discuss. I find a focused interchange like this useful and...
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John D. Smith
smithjd@...
May 4, 2000 9:32 pm
Dori, Thanks for your valuable comments (e.g., about RH/LH column approach) and ... an inverted community of practice? It seems that they all do share a ...
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John D. Smith
smithjd@...
May 7, 2000 7:00 pm
Cleaning out the cupboard, here on a beautiful, sunny afternoon in Portland. This book review several months ago caught my eye as suggesting a simple framework...
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Fred Nickols
nickols@...
May 7, 2000 9:30 pm
Thanks for the tip, John. I think I'll follow up on it. If I read your extracts correctly, the "stationary bandit" approach is what you're saying has promise...
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John D. Smith
smithjd@...
May 8, 2000 5:24 pm
Fred, I think you are correct in pointing out that tearing up the employment contract is a move BACK toward a "roving bandit" approach -- at least at some...
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Fred Nickols
nickols@...
May 8, 2000 9:58 pm
No, I didn't know about the patent. Thanks for the tip. I'll check it out. ... Fred Nickols The Distance Consulting Company "Assistance at A Distance" ...
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Chris Reid
chrisreid@...
May 9, 2000 1:06 am
Speaking of tearing up the old employment contract, has anyone seen any thoughtful writing on the so-called new one? I think it's not new at all, and ...
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matthew_simpson@...
May 9, 2000 12:41 pm
On the invitation to imagine... Here's one way to look at it. Plug and play employees (just in time workers) are not necessarily antithetical to healthy...
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Fourth Wave Group, Inc.
laramie@...
May 9, 2000 1:22 pm
Charles Handy, the British business philosopher addressed this issue very well in his 1996 book entitled "Beyond Certainty." Specifically, see Chapter 2, "The...
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Chris Reid
chrisreid@...
May 9, 2000 2:01 pm
Laramie, Thanks for responding. I now must go to the library to see the reading you recommend. Would you say more on the feudal system? I want to understand...
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Chris Reid
chrisreid@...
May 9, 2000 4:03 pm
Thanks for the thoughtful contribution to this conversation. I especially like, "It is not the responsibility of the individual worker to find survival skills...
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Fourth Wave Group, Inc.
laramie@...
May 9, 2000 4:40 pm
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Fourth Wave Group, Inc.
laramie@...
May 9, 2000 4:48 pm
Chris, I have no specific reference that compares modern business organizations to feudal systems. I'm sure there are some, but I expect they would not be ...
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matthew_simpson@...
May 9, 2000 5:37 pm
I like the idea of a swarm. For me it's a useful construct to explain a type of social system. In new science jargon, it would act as a natural attractor,...
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Fred Nickols
nickols@...
May 9, 2000 9:38 pm
The latest issue of Harvard Business Review (May-June 2000) carries an article about CoPs and knowledge sharing by two long-time collaborators, John Seely...
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Fourth Wave Group, Inc.
laramie@...
May 9, 2000 11:23 pm
All, For your consideration, I have posted my recent article on the relationship between communities of practice and knowledge management to my Web site. The...
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Dori Digenti
digenti@...
May 10, 2000 9:16 am
Dear Colleagues, ... While I agree with Handy that there is evidence of these new types of organizational cooperation are emerging ( and I see my efforts and...
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Fourth Wave Group, Inc.
laramie@...
May 10, 2000 12:11 pm
Good points, Dori, and I concur. As I remember from the personal Dark Ages of my education in World History, the serfs had to get rich (or at least better off)...
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Chris Reid
chrisreid@...
May 10, 2000 1:37 pm
Hi, I am not a consultant, but am very interested in CoP. Here are some thoughts which may hit you as "been there, done that," or perhaps they may add a...
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John D. Smith
smithjd@...
May 10, 2000 6:41 pm
Friends, I just wanted to invite comments about the the "field notes" I wrote up. They're located at ...
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Louis de Merode
ldemerode@...
May 12, 2000 2:46 pm
Hi, John, I enjoyed reading your case, and it does produce a few puzzles. I ran it against Etienne's short definitions, and it did meet the test at some level:...
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eric raimy
eraimy@...
May 16, 2000 10:26 pm
I'm a freelance writer specializing in workplace issues. A couple of years ago, I wrote an article for Human Resource Executive magazine explaining what CoPs...
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John D. Smith
smithjd@...
May 17, 2000 6:01 pm
I was shamelessly hussling Chris Reid for comments on the Referral Development Network case and she asked some good questions, which I thought I'd pass along...
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Chris Reid
chrisreid@...
May 17, 2000 11:12 pm
... thought > I'd pass along together with my response... ... I just wrote a post that I worked on for a long time, went back a screen, and it disappeared....
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Chris Reid
chrisreid@...
May 18, 2000 2:31 am
Greetings John and all, The subtitle of this post probably should be "Why is there air?" ... (from CHRIS) John, could you provide us with a list of the needs...
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John D. Smith
smithjd@...
May 18, 2000 10:56 pm
Louis, Thanks for those thought-provoking comments last week. I agree that using both the results of a "gut test" and Etienne's criteria is necessary for us to...
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Chris Reid
chrisreid@...
May 19, 2000 2:22 am
John, I am also interested in seeing how communities work outside the work place. Mostly, what I think I must do is simply appreciate the ones that already...
