Survival of the fittest: Intelligent organizations as intelligent complex adaptive systems

Abstract

In a complex, unknown, uncertain future, the organizations has to take some serious measures to survive. The first step for an organization to be taken is to be intelligent; the use of the intelligence to see, to act, to unite and to adapt. In the multi-variable equationed world of today, this paper argues the organizational intelligence as a part of intelligent complex adaptive systems. While arguing, the organizational intelligence is integrated into the intelligent complex adaptive systems in terms of using creativity, problem solving, decision making and application for enhancing the shared purpose, multi-dimensionality, knowledge flow and optimal complexity. In addition to these, the factors that force the organizations to be intelligent and adaptive for survival are opened to debate. This paper is intended to offer the organizations to get equipped with the speed to act and react, adaptation for the changing environment and the conditions, flexibility to operate as well as power to be the fittest to survive.