Our perspective, or why we need to understand more about Collective Intelligence

Our perspective, or why we need to understand more about Collective Intelligence

The underlying forces behind what we claim is an increasing interest in Collective Intelligence are specialization and knowledge distribution. As society becomes more specialized and more knowledge distributed, it also becomes more complex. Specialization and knowledge distribution help us develop knowledge, but only at the prize of complexity. To deal with increasing complexity, we will need more intelligence, and under the conditions of specialization, the value of more knowledge can only be realized by integration and coordination. So, what we will need more of is: Collective Intelligence. The fundamental question of our research is therefore how organizations can work systematically to support the everyday knowledge integration, and Collective Intelligence created, by people working together.

Author

Philip Runsten

philip.runsten@hhs.se

Researcher
PhD, Stockholm School of Economics

Senior Consultant, Founder
Influence