Critical Appraisal of Definitions on Intelligence within the Organizational Context

Abstract

This article explores the different forms of intelligence in relation to expanding organizational design and enhancing development, and how it entertains the notions of growth and success. Furthermore, it embraces how the amalgamation of the different forms of intelligence contributes to the relevancy and longevity of the organization. Thereafter, leadership is discussed as crucial for organizational success that reflects engagement of decision intelligence, business intelligence, and competitive intelligence as key pillars of strategic decision-making. These concepts are taken to enable leaders in understanding complex problems that lead to developing innovative and creative solutions. The proposition here is transformative intelligence that is taken to combine these three concepts of intelligence that potentially would revolutionize organizational leadership and consequent decision-making. Simultaneously, the five pillars of leadership, or the 5Qs (Cognitive Intelligence, Digital Emotional Intelligence, Moral Intelligence, Innovation Intelligence, and Spiritual Intelligence), also contribute to strategic decision-making, enabling organizations to achieve desired transformation. This spectrum of reviewing intelligence as a combination concept benefits organization through streamlined decision-making, customer-centricity, anticipating disruptive forces, improved innovation, and better organizational culture. This article examines the scopes and potential drawbacks of each type of intelligence and showcases how adopting a business model which utilizes and combines the aforementioned types of intelligence ultimately creates a stronger and more resilient organization.