Advocating for Integrating Business Intelligence in Virtual Communities of Practice
Advocating for Integrating Business Intelligence in Virtual Communities of Practice

Summary/Abstract: In the age of information and technology, Virtual Communities of Practice represent a reachable, cost effective and viable solution. For their advantages, they become more popular between the members of the cluster communities that share the same interest. Virtual Communities of Practice bring together people through online platforms and put them into the collaborative relation, so that they can share, learn, experiment and improve their activity. To this, there is always an informational input came from document resources shared into the community. But the challenge come with the management of this hole information and the use of it in order to go further and use the proper information to obtain knowledge and take decisions. For this, in our paper, we propose a model of using Business Intelligence into Virtual Communities of Practice, focusing on the advantages that this approach brings not only to the virtual community, but also to the local communities, improving their activities and being an innovation accelerator.

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