This intensive new program is designed to help managers understand how to create competitive advantage by harnessing new organizational approaches made possible by the latest wide-ranging communications technologies. It will illustrate how people and computers can be connected in new, creative ways so that—collectively—they act more intelligently than any person, group, or computer has ever done before.

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Drawing on real-world examples of Wikipedia, YouTube, InnoCentive, Google, and eBay, participants will learn to identify opportunities for using crowd intelligence, loose hierarchies, and other innovative ways of organizing work to apply to various business environments. Participants will acquire an entirely new perspective on organizational success by getting a better understanding of:

• Why management is changing in profound ways, and what managerial skills are required for success in these new organizations
• The significant shift in organizational market share from traditionally large, hierarchical corporations to new and more nimble, networked companies
• When traditional hierarchies are useful and when they are not
• How and when “crowd intelligence” can create knowledge and solve problems more effectively
• How contests can often find the best solutions even when no one knows in advance where they are
• How prediction markets work
• Determining the key dimensions of all successful organizational designs
• How to move from command-and-control to coordinate-and-cultivate leadership

This program will be most beneficial to CEOs, senior executives, and managers at all levels who are in a position to make significant changes in the ways work is organized in their units. Specifically:

• Executives in knowledge-centric or information-centric industries, like publishing, entertainment, education, software development, and financial services
• Executives in products and services industries, like high-tech or pharmaceutical companies, or medical device manufacturers
• Managers in IT, HR, strategy, research, and other functions whose job responsibilities include implementing new organizational structures, processes, and tools
• Entrepreneurs who want to understand new business opportunities in this space
• Anyone in business or non-profit organizations who has an opportunity to influence organizational innovation in their organizations and wants to understand how work is changing

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  An excellent program, thank you! Tom guided us through an appreciation of why this is subject is important, what we can do about it and how we can use key principles to deliver competitive advantage to our organisations. Relevant use cases and reference points provided clear insights. Thought provoking and incredibly useful. Perhaps we should be submitting feedback collectively ;) Thanks

  
  
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  I enjoyed the Intelligent Organizations programs This program enhanced my understanding about the power of collaborative Intelligence. Professor Thomas W. Malone in just two days explained masterfully, a material that could have taken a semester to explain. I think i am now better prepared for a world that is in the beginning stages of a completely new way of organization and interactions. In which concepts such as Autonomy, Flexibility, Motivation, Creativity and Freedom, will determine the business organization, societies, governments, and the world as a whole. Ricardo Viloria

  
  
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  I came in with preconceptions and left with new intelligence. This seemed like class that would have little to add in terms of actual knowledge, but I’m happy to admit I was wrong.

  
  
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  I am a person in the middle of a very sucessful career who has spent the last 15 years working in large corporation. Sometimes , under these circumstance you get so caught up in doing, achieving and delivering, you forget to raise your head and look what is actually happening around you. This course opened my eyes and mind to just how much the nature of how work gets done has changed and to the incredible opprotunites that exist for doing work in a different way that delivers vast benefits. The course is a great combinition of theory, proof through science, action learning and real life examples. I believe it is essential for all leaders to look outside their bubbles and understand where the future of work is headed. It is exciting and opens all kinds of opprotunites, but if you are not aware of these opprotunites you can't take advantage of them. I highly recomend the course, the content, and the investment of your time,