Paul Hildreth

Dr. Paul Michael Hildreth received his PhD from University of York in 2001. His research interests focused on knowledge management and how knowledge is shared in distributed international environments. Dr. Hildreth is currently working as a Knowledge Management and Information Technology consultant. He has published numerous book chapters in the area of knowledge management and journal articles reporting his research findings have been published in the Journal of Knowledge Management and Information Research. Dr. Hildreth has been a presenter at conferences throughout Europe and the United States.

Publications

Virtual Communities of Practice
Virtual Communities of Practice
Chris Kimble, Paul Hildreth. © 2009. 5 pages.
When knowledge management (KM) began to emerge in the 1990s it was seen as an innovative solution to the problems of managing knowledge in a competitive and increasingly...
Limits of Communities of Practice
Limits of Communities of Practice
Chris Kimble, Paul Hildreth. © 2006. 8 pages.
When knowledge management (KM) began to emerge in the late 1980s, it was seen as an innovative solution to the problems of managing knowledge in a competitive and increasingly...
Virtual Communities of Practice
Virtual Communities of Practice
Chris Kimble, Paul Hildreth. © 2005. 5 pages.
When knowledge management (KM) began to emerge in the 1990s it was seen as an innovative solution to the problems of managing knowledge in a competitive and increasingly...
Going Virtual: Distributed Communities of Practice
Going Virtual: Distributed Communities of Practice
Paul Hildreth. © 2004. 265 pages.
Going Virtual: Distributed Communities of Practice contributes to the understanding of how more subtle kinds of knowledge can be managed in a distributed international...
Knowledge Networks: Innovation Through Communities of Practice
Knowledge Networks: Innovation Through Communities of Practice
Paul Hildreth, Chris Kimble. © 2004. 354 pages.
Knowledge Networks: Innovations Through Communities of Practice draws on the experience of people who have worked with CoPs in the real world and presents their combined wisdom...
Knowledge in the Modern Organisation
Knowledge in the Modern Organisation
Paul Hildreth. © 2004. 6 pages.
The case study features a distributed international Community of Practice (CoP). CoPs are currently playing a major role in Knowledge Management (KM), and as organisations need...
Knowledge Management
Knowledge Management
Paul Hildreth. © 2004. 18 pages.
In this chapter, we will explore the field of KM in order to set the context for the study. We will examine the tools and techniques for the management of knowledge from a...
What is Soft Knowledge?
What is Soft Knowledge?
Paul Hildreth. © 2004. 41 pages.
In order to further inform the notion of soft knowledge, in this chapter we will explore three areas of literature with different views of how work is supported by knowledge...
Going Virtual
Going Virtual
Paul Hildreth. © 2004. 11 pages.
Before meeting our CoP we take the opportunity to explore issues which may affect a CoP which needs to function in a distributed international environment.
Living with the CoP-Stage One
Living with the CoP-Stage One
Paul Hildreth. © 2004. 39 pages.
This chapter describes Stage One of the case study, which is designed to obtain an inside view of how a distributed CoP works, how the softer aspects of knowledge are shared, and...
Stage Two-Visiting the American Core
Stage Two-Visiting the American Core
Paul Hildreth. © 2004. 25 pages.
Chapter VI describes Stage Two of the case study. Here we participate in a visit made by the UK core of the CoP to visit its peers in the US. In Stage Two, we want to focus on...
A Look at Other CoPs
A Look at Other CoPs
Paul Hildreth. © 2004. 17 pages.
In this chapter we aim to take the issues that have been raised in the main study and explore them in the context of other CoPs. As we now have a much tighter focus, we do not...
Lessons Learned
Lessons Learned
Paul Hildreth. © 2004. 14 pages.
In this final chapter we summarise briefly our journey from KM to our CoP and draw out lessons that can be learned from the issues that have arisen and the insights we have...
Communities of Practice: Going Virtual
Communities of Practice: Going Virtual
Chris Kimble, Paul Hildreth, Peter Wright. © 2001. 15 pages.
With the current trends towards downsizing, outsourcing and globalisation, modern organisations are reducing the numbers of people they employ. In addition, organisations now...