George is a sociologist and business philosopher who holds
a Visiting Researcher post in the Complexity Research Group at
London School of Economics. He is an advisor to senior management
in large organisations, in matters of increasing value creation
with communities of practice. He is the Founder of Community Intelligence
Labs (California), Co-Founder and Senior Consultant of CommunityIntelligence
Ltd (UK), and Executive Director of the European Collaborative
for Communities of Practice.
He brings the insights and experience of two decades spent in
designing, facilitating and teaching about virtual communities
in business and other organisations. His specialties also include
knowledge ecology, the organic way to knowledge management, and
augmenting collective intelligence in teams and organisations.
He served as Visiting Senior Research Fellow at INSEAD (2001-2002)
where he further developed his "Community Design Architecture"
framework for building successful communities.
His past clients include: Bull SA, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce,
European Foundation for Management Development, Gulf Canada, Hewlett
Packard, Intel, Octel, Procter & Gamble, Sun Microsystems,
Swiss Re and Unilever.
gpor @ CommunityIntelligence.[dot]co[dot]uk