Organizational intelligence: theory of collectively intelligent behaviors and engineering of effective information systems in the complex organizations

The concept of organizational intelligence originates from a naive analogy with the human individual intelligence: namely, as each human individual is supposed to possess a unique intelligence (intellectual faculty), so may each organization as a whole be assumed to have a characteristic collectivity of its members´ intelligence. Now that each organization as well as its environment is highly information-sophisticated, the role of machine or artifact intelligence collectively employed in each organization is quite remarkable. Therefore, one may provisionally define organizational intelligence as: an interactive aggregative-coordinative complex of human intelligence and artifact intelligence in the organization