Intelligence systems methodology: a systemic approach to the organizational intelligence function

Christian Ganzert, Dante P Martinelli and Ivete Delai

Knowledge Management Research & Practice, 2012, vol. 10, issue 2, 141-152

Abstract: Organizational intelligence can be seen as a function of the viable structure of an organization. With the integration of the Viable System Model and Soft Systems Methodology (systemic approaches of organizational management) focused on the role of the intelligence function, it is possible to elaborate a model of action with a structured methodology to prospect, select, treat and distribute information to the entire organization that improves the efficacy and efficiency of all processes. This combination of methodologies is called Intelligence Systems Methodology (ISM) whose assumptions and dynamics are delimited in this paper. The ISM is composed of two simultaneous activities: the Active Environmental Mapping and the Stimulated Action Cycle. The elaboration of the formal ISM description opens opportunities for applications of the methodology on real situations, offering a new path for this specific issue of systems thinking: the intelligence systems.

Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1057/kmrp.2011.44

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