Organization intelligence designates a special form of intelligence: an individual is not regarded regarding its behavior and different abilities, but a community and/or a collective as Gesamtheit.Der German term is is uncommon, more usually also in the German linguistic area the English terms organizational intelligence and organizational IQ.

Term and ranges of application

As stated in the article intelligence, is not present a generally accepted definition for the term intelligence. Rather equal most handy definitions provide restrictive attributes, by referring to rational intelligence, emotional intelligence, success intelligence etc. With all definitions however abilities and activities of the spirit are the center of attention - as for instance understanding, thinking, understanding - and it seems therefore obvious to attribute these to functions of the individual brain.

As soon as one applies however the term of intelligence to organizations, it becomes clear that it concerns a emergentes phenomenon: all sufficiently complex systems are characterized by the fact that the whole is more than the sum of the components: the behavior and the abilities of the whole cannot be predicted and understood alone due to a sufficient knowledge their constituent Komponenten.Das behavior of the overall system retroact on its components and affect these substantially (nonlinear reciprocal effects, superposition principle not applicably).

Entirenesses in the above sense, which can be regarded regarding their organization intelligence, are:

Biological systems:

• State State of insects, about ants, termites, bees (are differentiated social and show a swarm intelligence)
• Herds to differentiate (: anonymous herds (swarm), herds (the individuals recognize each other) trusted, clan, Pac)
• Biotopes (behavior of the Habitat as a function of changes in the abiotischen surrounding field)

All human community forms, which are socially structured:

• Family, horde/hurdle, group, village, city, society

Forms of organized co-operation under predominantly technical/social/economic aspects:

• Enterprise (company, group of firms, company) - profit-oriented
• Institution (citizens' initiative, donation, authority, state) - job oriented

Applied to this third group of the enterprises and institutions will in practice the term organization intelligence most frequently, in order to evaluate the ability of the organization to become efficiently fair their tasks posed and the requirements from their surrounding field. This mostly happens in the context of a consultation, a supervision or the continuous systemic Coaching, internal mutual (even -) coachings.

The style of leadership of an organization is with decisive for it into which degree collective organization intelligence steps in relation to the individual behavior of its representatives into feature - therefore there are naturally many combinations and gradations. In the available article excluding the collective aspects are described.

Methodology

In view of the methodical difficulties described above it lies near to select a pragmatic beginning with which intelligent behavior becomes recordable at individuals and collectives equally. Therefore intelligent behavior depends on the following observable abilities:

• Curiosity: Constant attention and is awake acceptance
• Receptiveness, also complex information from the external world rapidly take up and appropriately evaluate
• (RH) Capable of actionness on these information appropriately fast and meaningfully (purposefully) react
• Adaptability: from experiences additional action options derive (extension of the repertoire of suitable action samples, requisite variety): Stupidity consists not of making errors to repeat but it

Organization behavior in the public perception

In the public perception individual enterprises and institutions often appear as stupid in the sense of mentally slow-acting with necessary adjustment processes. This is usually the case if the organization because of their tasks or economic situation is located in (current) the focus of the interest of medium and inappropriate reacted to it. This task public of the relation of an organization corresponds transferred to the individual psychology persona.

The authorities competent for this public work must be able to access over the knowledge management and information management rapidly relevant knowing and wanting of the organization. They use increasingly methods of the pattern recognition, in order to derive from the analysis of the attack samples adequate statements and other publicly effective measures.

Apart from this official public relation the picture (image) of the organization can be affected also by the occurrence of individual members, why a Corporate Behaviour is increasingly often cultivated and called in.

Goals and motivation as a condition for intelligent behavior

Intelligent acting is purposeful. Knowledge of the goals of an organization and additionally the motivation of their members of achieving these goals are therefore a primary condition for intelligent behavior example from the individual sphere: A IQ-test can measure only then rational intelligence correctly, if the rehearsing and is motivated, the test to exist and not goals pursued, whose reaching by an existed test were made more difficult.

Effective consent over the best way to the goal presupposes that there is a common goal of the organization. Example: The Richtungslosigkeit of the current debate over the education politics is to be attributed (with) to the fact that the primary goal is discussed only vaguely: Is education to be promoted primarily as means to the personal liberty or primarily as competition factor in the increasing

Concluding remark

From the mental concept of the term organization intelligence it results that one can describe sufficiently complex) individual in this regard each (as organization and on the other hand each organization than organism (in the long run than individual) applicable: both views are converted into one another, since they depend in the long run only on the choice of the observation level.

This becomes perhaps particularly clear, if one applies the concept to artificial intelligence: as stated in this article, is the demarcation of human intelligence (the intelligence of the team, which the AI system programmed and to algorithms developed in many generations before by other identical teams falls back) and the adaptability of the developed algorithms themselves extremely with difficulty and in the long run arbitrarily. See in addition for example: Deep Blue, Jabberwacky (and many other articles). Biological swarm intelligence is copied in algorithms like the ant algorithm, one speaks then of distributed artificial intelligence.

See also:

• community
• Arbitrariness in the sense of contrary to "“nature will"”
• Knowledge
• Intelligence
• Decision under uncertainty
• Konnektionismus
• Learning organization
• Organizational development
• Sol
• Emergentes organization network
• Sequence organisation
• Organizational structure
• Matrix organization
• Family tree
• Gustave_Le_Bon

Related links:

• http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~rxv/kmoi/orgint.htm
• http://www.utdallas.edu/dept/socsci/Fourth.htm

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