efios     Efios home Weblog     The efios blog: "It's all about people and networks"       27 May 2004 Innovation communities of practice at P&G Coming back from Madrid was reading this month's edition of Fortune Magazine and found myself surprised to see that there is a major article in it devoted to innovation and communities of practice. In the section "innovation special: P&G teaching and old dog new tricks" there is a five-page article on how diversity and cross-BU collaboration using communities (and they are actually called communities of practice in the article) has turned around the innovation process and 'made P&G into a brand-builder and model growth company again'. This emergence is remarkable because P&G is known for it's notoriously rule-bound culture. They describe in brief how their 7,500 R&D scientists acoss nine countries work in communities and how it has been delivering results using innovation reviews. P&G CEO Lafley says that one of the things is that people (in the CoPs) are credited both for giving as well as taking, underlining the P&G uncommon viewpoint for the dominant role of the social dimension. This happened at 9:25:05 AM  Ideas and comments to this [] or trackback [] © Copyright 2005 Erik van Bekkum. May 2004 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat             1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31           Apr   May Blog categories: (All) innovation Social Networks Blogging Blogroll: [Macro error: Could not open the url, "http://www.efios.com/blog/gems/blogroll.opml", because it could not be converted to an outline.] 25 most recent: Intervision and communities of practice Weak ties in communities of practice Corporate SNA in CIO magazine Introduction to UCINET and social network methods The navigational aspects of social networks Blended Learning in KM Supporting Pioneering Leaders as Communities of Pr... WHO uses communities of practice to achieving univ... Communities for Project Offices Power struggle in radical innovation communities Xwiki, the MT of Wikis? Workshop Report on the Theory and Practice of Phys... Inquiry: Learning begins with Questions Deadline for VC2005 on the 30th of May Learning for development (Organizational Learning) ICTs and Social Capital in the Knowledge Society: ... NGMTI communities of practice Communities and change agents Informal learning and communities CITSA 2005 - Information Systems Analysis and I-KN... PhD Seminar in Copenhagen Business School Community of Practice in technology platforms The Encyclopedia of Virtual Communities and Techno... Workflow learning Using virtual communities in marketing APQC's blog on KM and Communities of Practice