The Intelligent Complex Adaptive System

As we begin to understand and hopefully anticipate the behavior of the current and future environment, it becomes clear that neither the classic bureaucratic nor the current popular matrix and flat organizations will provide the unity, complexity, and selectivity necessary for survival. A different approach is needed to create an organizational system that can enter into a symbiotic relationship with other organizations within its enterprise and with the external environment while retaining its own unity of purpose and selectivity of incoming threats and opportunities, i.e., turning the living system metaphor into a reality. This organization builds on the currently anticipated knowledge organization to become a living system composed of living subsystems that combine, interact, and co-evolve to provide the capabilities of an advanced, intelligent technosociological adaptive enterprise. The system we propose can best be described as an intelligent complex adaptive system (ICAS).