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Intelligent Enterprises are not well differentiated from Enterprises with KM in the current article. In reality, KM focuses on the infrastructure for sharing knowledge possessed by agents within the enterprise. IE focuses on the enterprise itself as an organism capable of having knowledge and responding to it. The end goal of IE is to create organizations which, like cultures, can evolve and adapt to changing environments without the oversight of a single executive. In other words intelligent enterprises are characterized, as Ring (2004) stated, by "the ability to self-adapt to changes - in [its] context, internal capabilities, and stakeholder interests."
[edit] Historical Approach to IE
IE has come from mainstream Facilities Management [FM], as well as automation of record keeping. Though Facilities Management has now branched out into FMIT, it is important to know that Facilities Management - as a term - originally came from "Buildings & Grounds" [B & G] - which was widely used by many types of industries, institutions, and the military.
As B&G expanded to include "campuses" - with a host of new responsibilities & services, the degree of complexity increased. When size, number of locations, and variety of operations, personnel required began to grow -especially for public, non-profit organizations, certain "aspects", "properties of identification",
began to change. "Facilities" began to be used where "buildings" was not an exact fit - such as refineries, clinics, labs, production plants, etc.
As B&G gave way to FM, the increase in services meant
that formerly ordinary or "plain" functions now involved additional services as: Transportation between locations, In-house cafeterias, News-stands and other "amenities" . . . Air conditioning, Elevators, Telephones - for instance.
As these new "improvements" increased, Operations
Capabilities became more of a Management, Design & Architecture problem. But, in the business/government world, these new "co-ordinated, systematic" functions meant that these new "features" were also "crossing over" into domains which had their own profit identities - and SIC codes - with very specific and and very important differences in Key Ratio Management from the primary purpose.
As computerization, automated buildings, telecommunications and Internet activity came into the picture, these "complexes" [Industrial Parks, Hospital Campuses, Research Parks, Advanced Military Facilities, Mobile Operations Centers, etc.] . . .
were more and more becoming "Enterprises" with many business-smart leaders. Universities with Government ties - and other Global "Reaches" - as well as International Corporations - such as DuPont - became "Global Enterprises".
As Artificial Intelligence [AI] became more accessible, with its high-speed calculations, multi-dimensional capabilities, virtual reality, expert systems, machine vision, robotics, neural networks, and more, the "Enterprises" became "smarter".
Executive Information systems [EIS], SCADA [Supervisory Control & Data Acquisition], on the intermediary level, and FIELDBUS [called "revolution on the factory floor"] controlled formerly "dumb" devices" with "networking", "embedded chips" [smart, AI], which could "learn" and "communicate" without reporting to EIS.
As MIS [Management Information Systems] grew out of
OR [Operations Research], and began to be "enhanced" by AI, Meditation, and other Global Expansion, such as Feng Shui, it, too, has become "hybridized" with Genetic Programming, Morphing, Evolutionary Programming, Artificial Life Simulations, Multi-core processing, Firmware - and more!
The "Intelligence" of the "Enterprise" has grown so phenomenonaly - during this period of "Acceleration",
and "Information Explosions" that it is more & more difficult for any one individual to encompass all its ramifications - another sign of the necessity of "Teamwork" in 24x7 "worlds" which is a hallmark of "Third Wave Societies". 4.239.192.75 (talk) 21:06, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
