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Designing Effective Knowledge Networks

by Laurence Prusak, Katrina Pugh
October 2013
Intermediate to advanced
10 pages
33m
English
MIT Sloan Management Review
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Designing Effective Knowledge Networks

In today’s interconnected world, networks for sharing knowledge are increasingly important. By paying careful attention to eight dimensions of network design, leaders of knowledge networks can facilitate desired behaviors and outcomes.

BY KATRINA PUGH AND LAURENCE PRUSAK

“KNOWLEDGE NETWORKS” are collections of individuals and teams who come together across organizational, spatial and disciplinary boundaries to invent and share a body of knowledge. The focus of such networks is usually on developing, distributing and applying knowledge. For-profit and nonprofit organizations of all sizes are seizing on this model to learn more quickly and collaborate productively. However, for every successful network, others ...

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