Discussion Post: Chevron Texaco's Communities Of Practice
Communities of Practice are teams and groups whose members regularly engage in sharing and learning, based on their common interests. One might think of a community of practice as a group of people playing in a ?eld de?ned by the domain of skills and techniques over which the members of the group interact. Being on the ?eld provides members with a sense of identity --both in the individual sense and in a contextual sense, that is, how the individual relates to the community as a whole.
Lesser and Storck, 2001:831
Within the CoPs framework, you are required to read the ChevronTexaco article and post a 400-word team analysis, answering the following questions:
o How are the CoPs in ChevronTexaco different to an organizational network?
o How have the CoPs been developed?
o How is it developing tacit & explicit knowledge sharing?
The response should include a reference list. One-inch margins, Using Times New Roman 12 pnt font, double-space and APA style of writing and citations.