Information Systems

To contact with others, telegraphs, telephones, electronic mails or postal services are necessary systems, which transmit information from point to point. There are also other systems in this group that can transmit information from point to many such as radio, newspaper and World Wide Web.
             The old corporate model, which comprises of exclusivity, hierarchy and solitude, was no longer competitive in a globally interconnected world. Thus, business process re-engineering (BPR) emerged in the late of 1980's, followed by Knowledge Management a while later, was a new fashion in business information system to achieve improvements.
             This essay explores how Network of practice', which are the method to transfer and sharing knowledge between individuals in Knowledge Management and Business process re-engineering (BPR), work in term of changing the way people collaborate. .
             Network of Practice.
             Community of Practice (CoP) are groups of people that share a common interest, a concern, a set of problems or a passion about a topic (Wenger 1998; Wenger et al.2002), for example, people that working on the same project who share knowledge on a problem while pursuing joint solutions. These are normally face-to-face informed dialogues, regular meetings with decision makers in a same location and time that assist to lead to better outcomes along with more effectively works. Community of practice is different from a work team or any network that concentrate on one topic, it is defined by knowledge rather than by an individual task. A work team is held together by a task and it will split up when the task is completed, yet people in a CoP can work in different organization structures; they just bring the knowledge that they develop in CoP into other tasks. Network of Practice (NoP) or virtual community of practice is similar to community of practice, which is a group share the same interest but it uses networked technology, especially the Internet to establish collaboration, exchange ideas and works across geographical barriers and time zones.