Integration of CoP’s to Form “Clusters”

The model on the preceding page describes the formation of a CoP from an inward perspective, but to serve an economic purpose a CoP must have the perspective of how the organization unites the Knowledge `Infrastructure (everything known by and about the organization) with the Operational Infrastructure (everything the organization does or can do).

The same model then can be applied to relate nodes of specific organizational focus with the economic purpose that will sustain them.

So for example if you were to view the model from a 3-D perspective, the Sales Node would link to Customers. The Logistics and Support nodes to the coordination of Supply and Demand and the Tools node would be linked to providing the organizational stakeholders with the reports that summarize the data accumulating within the framework of the economic purpose of the organization.

This is a very abstract model to be sure, but in the following pages we try to put some context to the model that will show how such a model can scale as a vehicle for transforming the organization into an Era 4 enterprise.