La part de mystère des communautés de pratique L'institutionnalisation des communautés de pratique est assurément une bonne chose pour leur pérennité. A condition toutefois qu'elles parviennent à préserver ce qui fait leur originalité et leur puissance. Ce qui nécessite de cultiver une part de mystère. Dans un long article publié en mars 2010 dans Harvard Business Review (Harnessing Your Staff's Informal Networks), Richard McDermott et Douglas Archibald observent que ces réseaux internes d'experts sont de plus en plus intégrés dans les structures hiérarchiques officielles des entreprises. Cela se vérifie d'ailleurs dans de nombreuses entreprises françaises. A l'origine entités indépendantes qui choisissaient elles-mêmes leurs thèmes de réflexion, les communautés de pratique sont amenées à se focaliser sur des sujets déterminés par le haut management. Ce n'est pas sans conséquence pour le leader ou l'animateur dont les tâches hors présentiel prennent davantage d'importance. Assumer le côté « boîte noire »
From the Ground Up : Transition Town Kingston From the Ground Up is Kingston's own Award Winning weekly organic veg and fruit food scheme bringing local affordable fresh organic food to the Royal Borough of Kingston. Dissatisfied with the high cost and poor availability of organic food, members of Transition Town Kingston took action and started a not-for-profit, community based food scheme with these principles: Why our prices are so affordable...From the Ground Up offers exceptional prices to you because we don't hire staff - we are a completely volunteer managed food scheme and maintain a minimal infrastructure by asking our customers to pick up their orders rather than delivering them as other schemes do. If we needed to employ people, purchase and insure vans, buy petrol etc prices would climb, climb, climb. And...you do not need to buy a box. Interested? Want to help bring affordable organic food to our communities? Late Pick Up Service Now Available Winner of Time & Leisure Food and Drinks Award - 2013 Online ordering is here!
Virtual community A virtual community is a social network of individuals who interact through specific social media, potentially crossing geographical and political boundaries in order to pursue mutual interests or goals. One of the most pervasive types of virtual community operate under social networking services consisting of various online communities. Virtual communities all encourage interaction, sometimes focusing around a particular interest or just to communicate. Some virtual communities do both. Community members are allowed to interact over a shared passion through various means: message boards, chat rooms, social networking sites, or virtual worlds.[1] Introduction[edit] The traditional definition of a community is of geographically circumscribed entity (neighborhoods, villages, etc.). Purpose of virtual communities[edit] A PLATO V terminal in 1981 displaying RankTrek application. Internet-based virtual communities[edit] Impacts of virtual communities[edit] On health[edit] On communication[edit]
Empowering Leadership and Innovation | ALIA Institute ALIA Europe Intensive The Netherlands • 26-31 March Leadership is a journey without final destination and with few reliable maps. The ALIA Intensive is a place where you can strengthen this kind of leadership while working on your current project. You will leave ready to • step into leadership in a way that is authentic for you • engage uncertainty and change as your allies • bring out the leadership in others • navigate effectively through challenge and complexity • apply new lenses and strategies to your current leadership goal or project ALIA creates the conditions for empowered leadership and innovation. Three streams The Leadership Intensive weaves together three integrated streams: foundations of authentic leadership, skill-building for action, and community dialogue and exchange. Foundations of authentic leadership Each day begins with a session that strengthens presence, alignment, and creativity. Skill-building for action Community dialogue and exchange See also the daily schedule.
Community of Wikipedia The Wikipedia community is the community of contributors to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia. Individual contributors are known as "Wikipedians". The overwhelming majority of Wikipedians are volunteers. Size[edit] Studies of the size of the community of Wikipedia showed an exponential growth rate of the number of Wikipedia contributors during the early years. Motivation[edit] Video which articulates the enthusiasm of the Wikipedia Community Various studies have been done with regard to the motivations of Wikipedia contributors. Oded Nov, in his 2007 paper "What Motivates Wikipedians", related the motivations of volunteers in general to the motivations of people who contribute to Wikipedia.[8] Nov carried out a survey using the six motivations of volunteers, identified in an earlier paper.[9] The six motivations he used were: To these six motivations he also added: The Wikimedia Foundation has carried out several surveys of Wikipedia contributors and users. Media[edit] Socializing[edit]
Who we are | Green Economy Coalition Based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, the Center for Sustainability Studies (GVces) of the Business Administration School of Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV-EAESP) is an open environment for study, learning, insights, innovation and the production of knowledge, made up of personnel with a multidisciplinary and diverse background; these are highly creative people that are engaged, committed, curious and bold, and especially motivated by a genuine desire to change the world. GVces bases its activities in formulating and following-up public policies, in building tools for self-regulation and in the development of strategies and tools for business management towards sustainability, locally, regionally, nationally and internationally.
fablabo Bienvenue sur le wiki Fablabo, animé par l'association PiNG ! Vous trouverez ici les projets partagés par les usagers de Plateforme C et de l'Atelier Partagé du Breil, ainsi que des ressources techniques et documentaires autour des fablabs. Projets à la une Derniers projets modifiés Voir tous les Projets Derniers tutoriels modifiés Voir tous les Tutoriels Ressources Let's do it! World Les communautés de pratique, ou l'émergence d'un management coopératif Depuis une période quasi centenaire, les cycles de modes et modèles managériaux se sont créés et succédés à travers les productions enchevêtrées et imbriquées de grandes familles ou « mondes d'acteurs », dotés d'un capital d'influence conséquent, qui trouvent intérêt au développement et à la diffusion de ce que l'on qualifie, à tort où à raison, d'innovations managériales. Mais depuis les années 1990, les cartes se rebattent progressivement, avec l'apparition d'une nouvelle forme hybride : les communautés de pratique au sein des entreprises. Un nouveau cycle managérial, fondé sur le savoir, atypique, original et prometteur, bénéficiant de surcroît des nouveaux espaces collaboratifs offerts plus récemment par les technologies numériques de type 2.0 (qui transforment plus généralement notre manière de travailler), vient ainsi inévitablement bousculer la posture du manager traditionnel. La construction des cycles, modes et modèles managériaux Jean-Pierre Bouchez Président de Planète Savoir
How might we identify and celebrate businesses that innovate for world benefit – and inspire other companies to do the same? - Inspiration - Going Organic with Morarka Contribution Morarka Foundation based in India has been a pioneer in Organic Farming. Housing 2 retail brands DownToEarthOrganic for organic groceries and BackToBasics for Organic Clothing, it trains100,000 farmers across 250,000 acres of land in organic farming Morarko, pioneering Organic Farming. I have always had the pleasure of consuming vegetables and fruits that were grown without any chemicals in my Uncle's farms whenever he visited us from the village. Contribution submitted by:Soumithra Ramesh
WANTED: High Potential Impact Entrepreneurs In Latin America | Agora Partnerships Date: September 12, 2012 By: Jesse Grainger Comments: One Category: Agora Updates We are currently in search of 30 high-potential early-stage impact entrepreneurs from throughout Latin America to join our growing community of world-changing businesses (Agora’s Class of ’12 is pictured above). Entrepreneurs around the world are joining a growing movement to create positive, sustainable impact through private enterprise. We are in the middle of an ambitious recruitment effort for our 2013 Impact Accelerator. Over the past two years, we have worked with 18 company operating in some of the poorest regions of the Western Hemisphere. Now, we are expanding from our base in Central America and searching for 30 new companies spanning the whole of Latin America to help accelerate impact for the region. If you are an entrepreneur interested in applying to our Accelerator or if you’re interesting in helping us spread the word, please contact Inga Schulte-Bahrenberg at ischulte@agorapartnerships.org.