Identify community launch opportunities
Leading a community of practice and expertise

A community of practice is a group of people whose objectives are generally to :

• build and represent a function, a profession, skills and expertise ;

• support cross-functional management activities (e.g. coordinating experts across several organizational units);

• enable people in different locations (on several continents, for example) to meet and share ideas;

• enable collaborative problem-solving and innovation;

• develop, disseminate skills and share experience.

The players to consider are :

• community members: experts, experienced people, representatives of operational activities... ;

• the "leader",...