Author(s): Aitana BOGDAN
Publication name: Romanian Intelligence Studies Review
Publisher name: Mihai Viteazul National Intelligence Academy
Publication type: Journal article
Publication date: June 30, 2015
Pagination:
Issue/ Volume: 13/2015
DOI:
Abstract:
To be able to study intelligence organizations, one must first understand the
manner in which organizations have evolved in the last decades in parallel with the
“revolutions” taking place in economy, technology and society. We can, therefore, notice
a shift from the paradigm of the organization as a “machine”, whose functioning can be
understood through a detailed analysis of its inner mechanisms to the paradigm of the
organization as an “intelligence organism”, whose functioning surpasses from a
complexity point of view everything we have previously imaged, limiting the knowledge
we may gather on it. Therefore, this article argues for exploring ways in which
intelligence organizations can stimulate and harness better their potential for
improvisation, creativity and imagination.
Keywords: intelligence organizations, intelligence organism, transformation,
complexity, order
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