Intelligent Public Organisations

Jari Stenvall () and Petri Virtanen ()
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Jari Stenvall: University of Tampere
Petri Virtanen: University of Tampere

Public Organization Review, 2017, vol. 17, issue 2, No 2, 195-209

Abstract: Abstract The article explores the nature of the intelligence and organisational learning of public sector organisations with regard to both individual organisations and multiple organisational ecosystems. The main ideas behind modern systems theory (MST) and the logic developed by the MST theorists in the domain of organisational intelligence are pinpointed in the paper. The article presupposes that the basic structure of the organisational features of intelligence consists of leadership, strategy and foresight, people, partnerships and resources, and organisational processes, and the intelligence builds on these features. The article concludes with an explicit definition of the organisational activities that generate organisational intelligence, putting forward best practice examples with regard to these activities while also presenting scientific evidence to back up these claims.

Keywords: Organisational intelligence; Organisational ecosystem; Modern systems theory; Open systems; Complexity theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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