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100 _aHinton, Brad
245 _aKnowledge management and communities of practice: an experience from Rabobank Australia and New Zealand
260 _c2005
300 _ap.57-68.
362 _aDec
520 _aKnowledge and information transfer have become important ingredients for an organization's competitive advantage. Knowledge management has emerged as an overarching strategy to enhance knowledge creation, information transfer, utilization, and retgiculation in order to generate innovation and improve organizational performance. Part of this strategy involves the creation of Communities of Practice. These are networks of individuals with a common, shared purpose grouped together to facilitate knowledge building, idea creation and information exchange. The experience establishing Communities of Practice at Rabobank Australia and New Zealand is examined. - reproduced.
650 _aKnowledge management - New Zealand
650 _aKnowledge management - Australia
650 _aKnowledge management
773 _aThe ICFAI Journal of Knowledge Management
909 _a67948
999 _c67948
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