by Bev Wenger-Trayner | Aug 14, 2016 | All entries, Cultivating CoPs, Reflections, Social learning in organizations, Social learning leadership
Partly out of a sense of drama and partly to make a point I sometimes find myself being dismissive of “collaboration” and “sharing knowledge”. This is why. First, social learning is first and foremost about – well – learning....
by Bev Wenger-Trayner | Feb 19, 2016 | All entries, Reflections, Social learning in organizations, Social media
Yet again I have a client – of 5 years – who has made the technology a centre-piece of their strategy. I cry. It’s a technology that I suggested and helped to create. But I seem powerless to convince them that the proportion of resources they are investing in...
by Team BE | Mar 1, 2012 | All entries, Reflections, Social learning in organizations
We have just spent two days with the social learning team at Deutsche Bank. A dynamic project Banks have had a bad rap of late, so it was a really pleasant surprise to see the work they are doing. It did not seem an obvious home for an ambitious social learning...
by Team BE | Dec 28, 2011 | All entries, FAQ's, Resources, Social learning in organizations
Do we need to change our organizational culture first? Organizational culture can work against communities of practice, if it is individualistic, competitive, and focused on the short term. Changing organizational culture is very difficult. Change initiatives to...
by Team BE | Dec 28, 2011 | All entries, FAQ's, Resources, Social learning in organizations
If knowledge is power, why would anyone want to share it? Knowledge is indeed a source of power; but hoarding knowledge is not necessarily the best way to benefit from its power, especially in the context of communities of practice. Generalized reciprocity. In a...
by Team BE | Dec 28, 2011 | All entries, FAQ's, Resources, Social learning in organizations
What about power? Wouldn’t communities become a threat to the organizational hierarchy? Existing across an organization’s formal structures, communities of practice rarely derive much power directly from positions in formal hierarchies. But communities do not usually...
