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A Formal Department

• Does the group deliver a product or service?
• Does everyone in the group report to the same
  manager?
• Are there job requirements and common goals?
• Are the boundaries clear?
• Does the group last untildisbanded or
  reorganized?

Adapted from Cultivating Communities of Practice
by Etienne Wenger, Richard McDermott and Bill
Snyder.
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Project Team

• Is it designed to accomplish a specific task?
• Do team members have a clear role in
  accomplishing the task?
• Does the group have project milestones and
  goals?
• Are the boundaries clear?
• Does the group last for a predetermined amount
  of time?
• Do you measure success by completion of a task?

Adapted from Cultivating Communities of Practice
by Etienne Wenger, Richard McDermott and Bill
Snyder.
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Knowledge Sharing across Boundaries
Business Unit 1
BU2 BU3
Community of practice
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3 Important Dimensions

• Domain
• A domain of common knowledge gives people a
  sense of joint enterprise that emerges from
  their shared understanding.

• Community
• They function as a community through
  relationships of mutual engagement that build
  relationship and trust.

• Practice
• They build capacityby building a shared
  repertoire of resources, tools, and artifacts
  that support future learning.

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Question for you

• Think of your company as a tree or organism in a
  larger ecosystem
• What kind of tree are you now?
• What kind of tree do you need to be?

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• Aspen Grove
• Looks like separate trees but is all one
  organism.
• Connected by unseen but powerful root
  system.
• Interdependent what affects one tree
  affects the whole grove.

• Oak Tree
• Massive and strong.
• Slow growing.
• Long lived.
• Can break in a storm.
• Susceptible to internal decay.

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The Leadership Challenge
Good questions outrank easy answers. -Paul A.
Samuelson