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Steven Zachary Director| Alberta Health Services Calgary, Alberta, Canada
What is your experience with Centers of Excellence and Centers of Practice?

Do you have a preference? Do you think they are effective?
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Suhail Iqbal Suhail Iqbal PMIATP CIPM FAAPM MPM MQM CLC CPRM SCT AEC SDC SMC SPOC PRINCE2 MCT| PM Training School Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan
CoE is a level above CoPs and it provides necessary governance mechanism for CoP (if they exist mutually). Otherwise CoE and CoPs may also exist in isolation. I would differentiate CoE and CoP as Governance vs Management respectively.
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Dec 30, 2015 10:52 PM
Steven Zachary
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Interesting. I've always seen this relationship two ways.

1) A group of practitioners come together informally to form a CoP. This may lead to a CoE in time if supported by management.

2) A CoE is abandoned bu the members keep the practice going through a CoP.

CoE = Center of Excellence
CoP - Center of Practice

CoE = Cost centre, formal support, centralized
CoP = self-organized, informal, community specific
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Steven Zachary Director| Alberta Health Services Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Dec 30, 2015 5:56 PM
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CoE is a level above CoPs and it provides necessary governance mechanism for CoP (if they exist mutually). Otherwise CoE and CoPs may also exist in isolation. I would differentiate CoE and CoP as Governance vs Management respectively.
Interesting. I've always seen this relationship two ways.

1) A group of practitioners come together informally to form a CoP. This may lead to a CoE in time if supported by management.

2) A CoE is abandoned bu the members keep the practice going through a CoP.

CoE = Center of Excellence
CoP - Center of Practice

CoE = Cost centre, formal support, centralized
CoP = self-organized, informal, community specific

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