Community of Practice

 

Designed For:

• Organisations that rely on their projects and programmes delivering effectively for their overall success and;
  
• Have significant numbers of people, often widely distributed, leading the organisation's projects and programmes

Organisational Benefits

Imagine identifying what makes your best PMs the best; then consider some of the benefits your organisation could reap from such a discovery:

• Engaging PMs in wanting to develop their PM professionalism inside the organisation
  
• Encourages the cross fertilisation of best PM practise
  
• Saves significant sums in co-ordinating external expert resources (often being unknowingly replicated in different PM pockets)
  
• Lessons learnt can be widely distributed reducing costly mistakes
  
• Rare/expensive or pockets of experience can be identified and accessed to a much wider audience
  
• Mutual support enhances success – individuals identify people they can request for assistance
  
• Motivates senior experienced people to undertake more leadership and mentoring thus distributing the organisation's knowledge
  
• Organisational procedures, processes and culture that could hinder PM success can be more readily challenged
  
• Bids can access previously unknown case studies etc and increase bid/win ratios
  
• Creates a repository for knowledge management

How does a Community of Practice work?

A CoP is a virtual community with a focus on developing the skills, distributing the learning and acting as a repository of knowledge for a group of people involved in a profession.

Our Role

To provide you with the consultancy services to enable your organisation to:

• Discover all the ways your organisation could benefit from a CoP approach
  
• Engage senior PM players to lead the initiatives
  
• Establish the roles and structures

You can access the one page PDF version of Community of Practice here