There's an Evidence-Based Management Collaborative that meets twice yearly at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They describe themselves as a "community-of-practice to make evidence-informed management a reality". Their mission is "to close the gap between management research and the ways practitioners make managerial and organizational decisions and educators teach organizational behavior, theory, strategy and human resources management. The Collaborative’s primary task is to design the architecture and support practices for on-line access to best evidence summarized in ways practitioners and educators can readily use."

Now they've got a new Listserv, which will make it easier to follow their activities. You can join the list here (if you have problems signing up, email david.denyer [@] cranfield.ac.uk for help).

The collaborative met for the third time in June. I recapped their efforts on EvidenceSoup.com in May (here) and last August (here). They're making good progress — some recent sessions have included topics like this, which I support wholeheartedly:

PRIMING THE PUMP: Existing Syntheses We Can Use as Basis for Practitioner Summaries

• DESIGNING Products Practitioners Can Put To Use

DESIGNING Synthesis: A Common User Friendly Format

• What types of information are critical in summaries for practitioners?

LAUNCHING "Science You Can Use"

• Content/Format/Review Process/Scholar & Practitioner Partnering

I look forward to seeing what comes next, and am hopeful I can incorporate some of the collaborative's approach to practitioner summaries into my own work in evidence-based management.