Servant Leadership Styles as a Challenge to Develop Innovation in Resilient Environments

The current challenge for the survival and growth of companies is the appropriation of innovation in all its senses, the generation of propitiate resilient environments, the innovation philosophy acquisition into action, and improve internal dynamics and cohesion through a comparison of leadership styles oriented by the motivation to serve as a servant leadership. This chapter analyses the relevance of the culturally intelligent organizations to carry out innovation. Likewise, the styles of servant leadership and administration that generate a collective consciousness tend to create innovation and more resilient environments.

The Promises and Pitfalls of the Data Imperative

This chapter charts the future developments of data-driven businesses and digitalization. The chapter first elaborates a vision of the artificially intelligent organizations that utilize AI technologies, such as natural language processing, to capture the skills and knowledge of their employees. This will allow corporations to automatically orchestrate expert tasks to increase productivity and, hopefully, meaningfulness of knowledge work. Looking at the potential risks of ongoing digitalization, the chapter examines ‘optimization traps’, a set of organizational myopias that may arise from increasing reliance on algorithmic processing and smart automation. The chapter concludes by examining the new skills and attitudes managers and professionals are likely to need to remain relevant in the digital workplace, arguing that current use of data to create ‘insights’ may soon be outdated.

La interoperabilidad tecnológica para una universidad inteligente

In this work of diagnostic nature, addresses aspects of the With the advent of the knowledge society, intelligent organizations are changing human activities. The university is no stranger to its transformation. The smart university will provide higher education services with higher coverage and therefore at lower cost. This work proposes a model for interoperability in information systems and information technologies in an intelligent university.

Educational Competiotion as a Moderating variable of the relationship between electronic management and intelligent organizations

The research aims to determine the modified role of Educational Competiotion to enhance the impact of electronic management in intelligent organizations. The research started from several questions to know the interactive role of Educational Competiotion in enhancing electronic management and its impact on activating intelligent organizations. The research aimed to reach the essence of theoretical philosophy and the intellectual basis of these variables as one of the important issues in modern administrative thought. And its relationship and its direct and indirect effects were diagnosed through the modified role. The research sample consisted of a number of employees in Asia-Cell Company in the city of Karbala. Their number reached (129), and the questionnaire was used to collect data and a number of statistical methods were used to prove the validity of the hypotheses. The results were identical to the main hypothesis. On this basis, a number of conclusions were drawn, the most important of which was that Educational Competiotion modifies the positive relationship between electronic management and intelligent organizations. There should also be awareness-raising sessions on the importance of Educational Competiotion to take advantage of opportunities and explore new opportunities.

The role of corporate communication in intelligent organizations

Intelligent organizations are characterized for having a high learning capacity, innovation, response and competitivity within its action center. However, corporate communication is also seen as a basic component of such organizations; being considered a pillar of effectivity in management within the organizational mark. The following article makes a reflexion around corporate communication and it’s underlying elements, perceiving it as an indispensable piece of management in the intelligent organizations that find success and are able to maintain themselves in high uncertain environments, competitivity, client’s demand and under a high volume of information that characterize the actual knowledge society. It emphasizes the necessity of the communication role value in this context and it poses a net mode from the effective management of corporate communication allowing development of organization intelligence.

Hypertext Organization as a Model of Organization Improving the Flow of Knowledge

The article refers to a non-classic model of an organization, which is a hypertext organization. The hypertext organization combines a highly hierarchical organizational structure with the flexibility of management solutions supporting the conversion of various types of knowledge. It is considered to be a one of the most adequate models for managing the organization of the 21st century. Thereby, it contains in its assumptions solutions corresponding to challenges of the knowledge age and management of knowledge workers. The hypertext organization is able to successfully meet difficult requirements of the modern market and needs of an evolving society of different generations. It is important to show that the hypertext organization, being able to switch between “contexts” of knowledge creation, enables an efficient response to changing internal and external knowledge requirements. The article is a theoretical discourse, the aim of which is to outline a concise characterization of a new solution in the subject of organizational structures, present the essence of hypertext solutions and show chances and capabilities of knowledge management in such organizations, that finally allow a transformation of institutions in intelligent organizations. Special attention will be paid to strongly hierarchical organizations such as uniformed services, especially the armed forces.

Knowledge Management in Intelligent Organizations

The aim of the paper was to present the specificity of knowledge management in courier companies as an example of intelligent organizations. Knowledge management is a modern concept that emphasizes using the most valuable resources of enterprises such as employees and it offers conditions for development of knowledge, sharing it, and thinking creatively. The paper presents courier companies as an example of intelligent organizations that use knowledge management in the implementation of courier services. The article presents the results of a survey that identified the use of knowledge in courier companies and analysed the factors that made the surveyed companies become intelligent organizations. The solutions implemented in enterprises that influenced the emergence of a competitive advantage were evaluated. Furthermore, the benefits achieved by the companies surveyed due to knowledge management and the growth of their intelligence were analysed.