Download or read book Communities of Practice to Actively Manage Best Practices written by Stefano Borzillo and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-11-18 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stefan Borzillo examines a large variety of CoPs by means of six success factors and identifies three basic types: innovating strategic, operational excellence, and social and productive space CoPs. He shows that innovating strategic CoPs are strongly sponsored by management, that operational excellence CoPs are used to multiply technical and operational practices throughout an organization, and that social and productive space CoPs owe their success to their members’ sense of security.