Welcome to the Intelligence Age: an examination of intelligence as a complex venture emergent behavior
| Date | 24 October 2008 |
| Pages | 432-444 |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1108/03055720810917697 |
| Published date | 24 October 2008 |
| Author | Linda J. Vandergriff |
| Subject Matter | Information & knowledge management |
Welcome to the Intelligence Age:
an examination of intelligence as
a complex venture emergent
behavior
Linda J. Vandergriff
The Aerospace Corporation, Centreville, Virginia, USA
Abstract
Purpose – Aid knowledge management (KM) and business intelligence (BI) practitioners explore and
exploit the Intelligence Age complex venture model focusing on intelligence as an emergent behavior.
The paper aims to extend the discrete model used by classical system engineering (SE) for a wisdom,
knowledge, information, data, and measurement (WKIDM) pyramid to add a wrapper of emergent
intelligence to support successful decision making and implementation.
Design/methodology/approach – Building on previous theoretical complex venture work, this
research explores the value of extending the WKIDM or “Knowledge Pyramid” model proposed by
classical SE and KM approaches. The resultant IWKIDM model builds on the insights derived from
chaos and complexity theories; KM research; observations of several acquisition successes and
failures; and doctoral research on agile enterprise decision support.
Findings – The paper finds that successful classical SE complicated systems models built with the
closed system assumptions of linearity, predictability, and context independence do not scale to the
needed open system Intelligence Age solutions. It is necessary to build on a Complex Venture model
that guides the engineering solutions that: leverage emergent behavior insights to develop an
improved intelligence model for the interaction of complex venture intellectual capital (i.e.,
self-organizing agents) with the WKIDM pyramid entities and the intelligence products consumer
context; and examine WKIDM pyramid levels of abstraction for detachable and complex
representations (e.g., explicit versus tacit knowledge).
Originality/value – A complex venture conceptual model informs the architecture and systems
engineering acquisition practices for new solution category to empower the venture’s intellectual
capital to produce needed emergent intelligence.
Keywords Systems engineering,Intellectual capital, Intelligence, Knowledgemanagement
Paper type Viewpoint
Introduction
The human race has experienced several cultural ages, each marked by world view
change. As the twenty-first century arrives, the closing of the Industrial Age gives rise
to an era dubbed the Intelligence Age (Tyson, 1997)[1]. Many experts have identified
that the new economy includes new sources of intelligence related wealth generation
and is increasingly reliant on the free flow of intelligence-based products and services
(Vandergriff, 2005; Waltz, 2003; Allee, 1998). Thus, as intelligence becomes a primary
commodity, innovation, creativity, and ongoing learning are the currency of this new
intelligence-based economy. The currency is a prerequisite for maintaining an
organization’s capacity for creating new, and updating the old expertise and core
competencies (Waltz, 2003; Stewart, 2001; Bixler, 2000; Malhorta, 1998).
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VINE: The journal of information and
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Vol. 38 No. 4, 2008
pp. 432-444
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DOI 10.1108/03055720810917697
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