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Published in: Public Organization Review 2/2017

02-12-2015

Intelligent Public Organisations

Authors: Jari Stenvall, Petri Virtanen

Published in: Public Organization Review | Issue 2/2017

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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.
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Metadata
Title
Intelligent Public Organisations
Authors
Jari Stenvall
Petri Virtanen
Publication date
02-12-2015
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Public Organization Review / Issue 2/2017
Print ISSN: 1566-7170
Electronic ISSN: 1573-7098
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11115-015-0331-1

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