Intelligent Enterprise

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The term "Intelligent Enterprise" refers to a management approach that applies technology and new service paradigms to the challenge of improving business performance. The concept, as articulated in James Brian Quinn's seminal book Intelligent Enterprise (Free Press, 1992) posits that intellect is the core resource in producing and delivering services. The book describes the management approach and computing infrastructure needed to harness that intellect effectively. This approach is referred to in business jargon as Knowledge Management, of which Quinn is an important proponent. Quinn is the William and Josephine Buchanan Professor of Management at the Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College.

Intelligent Enterprise (CMP Media, LLC) is also the title of a magazine for business and IT executives who develop and manage their companies' strategic enterprise systems. This magazine expanded on earlier intelligent enterprise concepts, focusing on analytical software tools and underlying technologies for organizing both intellectual assets and transactional data. Doug Henschen is editor in chief and Antone Gonsalves is web editor.

Founded at Miller Freeman, Inc. (San Francisco) in 1998 by David M. Kalman, the magazine merged two titles, Database Programming and Design magazine and DBMS magazine. Founding editor/editorial director was David Stodder, who left the magazine in early 2007, with founding Editor-in-Chief Justin Kestelyn, Senior Editor Jeanette Burriesci, and Design Director Jim Shinnick. In 1999, Miller Freeman merged into CMP Media (Manhasset, NY), a division of United Business Media plc.