Re: formal definitions?

(1) If this is the case, I would argue that the employees contain the most organisational intelligence but they don't factor in your theory at all. What you are talking about is information. Information is created by programs from data. This is standard Information Theory.

(2) Data Mining involves the study of the creation of new information from existing "data". Your accumulation of "knowledge" is nothing more than an accumulation of data. Interpretation of that data may occur in many different ways and is largely dependant on context. How is it to be measured?

Your terminology is wrong.

"mountain man" <hobbit_at_southern_seaweed.com.op> wrote in message news:FSqhb.144111$bo1.29485_at_news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> The term "organizational intelligence" is not widely used
> in theoretical treatments, yet the term exists.
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> A review of the subject matter available suggests that the
> term may be validly applied. However, here I wish to
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> computing.
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> 1) When computer code is written and used by an organization
> to perform tasks relevant and sometimes critical to their day
> to day activity, then vested in this computer code must exist,
> by definition a specific amount of organizational intelligence.
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> Do you think this 1st statement is valid?
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> 2) Secondly, the gradual assemblage of data in the organization's
> database is also obviously representative (and perhaps to a
> larger degree than the first example) of an accumulation of
> knowledge and intelligence.
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> Do you think this 2nd statement is valid?
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> Thanks for any input in this. OTOH, if there already exists
> in the academic sphere formal definitions relating to the term
> organizational intelligence, pls point me to them.
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> PRF Brown
> Falls Creek
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Received on Mon Oct 13 2003 - 18:59:51 CEST