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Kimbal Wheatley
3/8/2010 7:08:54 AM Practice Areas for HR Professional CoP Forum: About CoP > HR CoP Pilot Project background Update of Practice Areas As of 22 March, the likely Practice Areas for focus by the first flight of workshops in April are nearing selection. Madame Ho has put together the "HCS CoP Network" to finalise and refine the first four PAs. Following is extracted from an email fr...
Kimbal Wheatley
3/8/2010 6:45:19 AM Intellectual foundation for CoP Forum: About CoP > CoP theory and background The intellectual foundation for the project is the CoP theories of Wenger, where participation in an enterprise is central to creating practical knowledge (in our case, the enterprise is HR). In his 1999 book Communities of Practice, he begins with four premises: “We are social beings. ...
Kimbal Wheatley
3/8/2010 6:43:15 AM The logic behind Professional CoP Singapore Forum: About CoP > CoP theory and background Communities of Practice (called CoPs) represent a practical extension of the fairly recent learning theories of Etienne Wenger (Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity, 1999). Wenger’s background is in the world of computer science (his Ph.D. is in artificial intellige...
Kimbal Wheatley
2/14/2010 5:17:29 AM CoP must pursue an engaging problem set Forum: Delivering CoP Value to Members > The CoP must deliver value The CoP must pursue an engaging problem set. An important way CoP is distinguished from other pedagogy schemes is its focus on learning and knowledge generation through doing practice-related things together. In the HCS case, “doing things” involves working to understand and refi...
Kimbal Wheatley
2/14/2010 4:20:48 AM CoP must deliver tangible outcomes Forum: Delivering CoP Value to Members > The CoP must deliver value Etienne Wenger, the theorist behind the CoP movement, says the odds of a Community’s success increase if a compelling business case for its purpose can be made, which means it needs to deliver tangible outcomes. The business case for the 2010 Professional CoP pilot project has three ba...