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Communities of Practice Implementation Guide

Do your communities of practice (CoPs) accelerate They require well-designed processes, measures, and roles
knowledge flow across the value chain of your organization? and responsibilities to be successful. The most effective
community strategies and approaches consider the business
APQC’s CoP implementation guide can help any organization
goals and the natural flow of knowledge in the organization.
design successful communities in the short term while helping
to create a replicable methodology for faster deployment of CoPs are the most comprehensive approach to your
community knowledge sharing in the future. knowledge management program. APQC’s CoP
implementation guide will enable your organization to achieve
CoPs nurture and harness the raw material of this
its objectives and achieve business results by using a variety of
millennium—knowledge—in the service of your organization.
best practices, templates, and tools.

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What Does My License Include? What Can Licensing Do for Me?


Your CoP implementation guide will include the following: Knowledge needs never go away. They continue to grow as
• Tools / Templates / Best Practices organizations become more global. APQC’s implementation
• Methodology / Roadmap guides are strategic road maps that help you deploy a robust
• Case Studies / Whitepapers / Data and steadfast enterprise KM program and successful KM
• Advisory Service Support from APQC approaches. Licensing provides a way to build internal skills
and competencies while advancing your KM efforts in a
What Are the Benefits of Licensing APQC’s
focused and efficient manner.
CoP implementation guide?
• Integrate CoPs with existing business processes Why APQC?
• Assess the performance and success of a community • Licensing content based on best practices and lessons
• Proven practices for designing, implementing, and sustaining learned from more than 450 organizations world-wide
successful CoPs • Recognized for Outstanding Performance by the MAKE
• Design roles and support structures that are crucial for Award Organization
CoPs to be successful • Listed by KM World as one of the top 100 companies
that matter in knowledge management
• Led more than 145 consortium benchmarking studies to
identify best practices in KM

visit www.apqc.org • call (800) 776-9676 or +1 (713) 681-4020 • e-mail implementationguides@apqc.org

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