CHiLD CoP Playbook - Investors
Community of PracticeCoP Playbook   NVESTORS
Level One: Quick Guide to kickstart Your CoP
CoP SKILL Level: 
Sponsor / Mentor / Subject Matter Experts / Young Leaders.
ACTIVITIES
Recommended Actions
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 Identify Key Players
Identify potential sponsors, SMEs, mentors and young leaders for the CoP.
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 Secure Support
Get support from top management as the sponsor & to suggest useful executive action for young leaders. Officially appoint SMEs and mentors for advice and guidance.
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 Leverage Expertise
SMEs are the backbone bringing specialized knowledge. Senior professionals as mentors serve as beacons for newer members. Young leaders offer a unique vantage point at the crossroads of strategy and execution.
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Level Two: Add these DEI Strategies and Enhance with a Success Wheel Methodology
- By Kian Ping Chng
- April, 2025
CoP SKILL Level: 
Strategies
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Strategies
SPONSOR / MENTOR / SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS / YOUNG LEADERS
Role of Subject Matter Experts
SMEs are the backbone of any CoP. They bring specialized knowledge that is often pivotal in addressing and resolving intricate challenges .
 
Importance of Mentors
Senior professionals, with their years of experience, play an indispensable role in a CoP. Their accumulated industry insights and hard-won experience serve not just as valuable reservoirs of knowledge, but also as beacons for newer members.
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Leaders of tomorrow
Middle managers play a pivotal role in the success of CoPs. Positioned at the crossroads of strategy and execution, they offer a unique vantage point .
 
CoP Visual Board 3: Leadership
The components of community leadership are twofold: (1) leadership from inside the community of practice and (2) support, investment and participation from senior and middle management, the sponsor and the alliance of sponsors in the field of your community of practice In our understanding of community leadership, everyone is a leader when they take initiative, bring people together and take responsibility. A core group of community members taking the lead and steering the community has been identified as a key element for success in our research. The community appreciates and values their input. Identify your community leaders and seek strong leadership participation. This section is very much linked to vision and community management and is about identifying the core group, the community leaders and other sponsors and influencers with authority in the practice. The members of the core group together work out how they will steer the community towards its vision and agree on what the community will commit to through the set governance processes.
 how to identify your core group, leadership and sponsorship;
how to map and situate community leadership stakeholders in your community ecosystem;
how to form responsive and inclusive leadership structures.
CoP Visual Board 3: Leadership
Level Three: Align Your Business Functions and Experts Using the CoP Constellation Framework
- By Kian Ping Chng
- April, 2025
CoP SKILL Level: 
Framework
Akin to the Great Dipper Constellation, which actually is an Asterism of stars creating a Ladle extending to to the handle which remains relatively consistence in formation as they shifted positions over time serving as a key navigational guide in the sky. The tip of the ladle Dubhe which is the brightest represent our CoP.
Akin to the Great Dipper Constellation, which actually is an Asterism of stars created a Ladle extending to to the handle which remains relatively consistence in formation as they shifted positions over time serving as a key navigational guide in the sky. The tip of the ladle Dubhe which is the brightest represent our CoP.
With clarity in direction, consistence alignment of business support and experts role, this framework attempt to create a self-supporting holistic ecosystem to ensure consistent results, self-renewal and sustenance, for any CoPs.
CoP Participating Level
Business Function
Healthcare Governance
Stewardship and Resources
[Sponsor/Mentor/Subject Matter Experts/Young Leaders] Identify potential sponsors, SMEs, mentors and young leaders for the CoP. Get support from top management as the sponsor & to suggest useful executive action for young leaders. Officially appoint SMEs and mentors for advices and guidance. SMEs are the backbone bringing specialized knowledge often pivotal in addressing and resolving intricate challenges. Senior professionals as mentor, with their years of experience serve as beacons for newer members. Young leaders positioned at the crossroads of strategy and execution, often offer an unique vantage point.
EXPERT Persona
The Influencers & Funders
Senior Management, Mentors, SME & Innovation Grants
CoP Participating Level: Active
EXPERT Roles:
Usually belonging to the senior management arm of the organization exploring for worthy projects to steer, sponsor and fund. Example may includes Ministries, Agencies, Statutory Boards , GIC, private institutions or auxiliary partners such as ALPs, Synapxe, ITO, etc.
• Drive governance & commitment for the community
• Exploring for worthy innovation projects to support
• Exploring for worthy innovation projects to fund
CoP Influences:
• Top management, peers, partners and wider stakeholders across healthcare clusters
• Healthcare innovation community at large
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