Evan Leybourn shares how Communities of Practice and provide benefit even inside corporations, and makes some suggestions on how to implement them.
Skills sharing, collaboration and cross-silo communication can be difficult in matrix organisations where common business practices may be shared across multiple business units. Additionally this mechanism should support the consistent management, and development, of common skills across the organisation. In a business context, common CoP’s include; operational expertise, project management, information management, business quality, or risk management.
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