Part I: BUILDING NETWORKS FOR COLLABORATION AND COMMUNITY

The four chapters in this section start from the premise that truly worthwhile collaboration creates tangible value for an organization.

Angelique Finan and Grady Bryant describe VeriSign's ongoing experience of bringing together the technical professionals across this geographically dispersed company into a knowledge-sharing community. The technical community, which holds an annual symposium and maintains a robust online presence, grew out of an earlier initiative to establish a network of the company's elite engineers. The message: as you consider network building in your organization, look at what's already going on that could be leveraged into a more comprehensive approach to knowledge ...

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