Since some of you study psychology, it might be interesting to know the origins of the Social Cognition. Russian psychologists Lev Vygotsky discovered something which can be seen as a sci-fi plot. Every child has so called zone of proximal development (ZPD) as ability to solve problems for particular age. For example, there are problems that a 3-year old cannot solve but a 4-year old can. Then he placed a bunch of kids of a certain age in a situation when they actively socialize (like in a collective game). Then he gave then a problem outside of their ZPD, but they were able to solve it. Once separated, their problem solving ability went down again to the one corresponding to their ZPD and not beyond. He called this phenomenon “Mind of Society,” which means that some higher intelligence arises from collective interactions that is bigger than anyone’s in that group, and that exists only when the group exists.
Today, when there are no more ways to compete by simply using more resources, the Collective Intelligence (CI) is becoming an extremely hot issue. The task is in finding such method of connecting group members and such forms of interactions that allow creating higher organizational intelligence without hiring more people, or seeking much smarter people. This is the edge of competition by using all technologies that we study in our course and some others. As a result of this course you will not only know about systems and IS, but also about ways of creating Enterprise 2.0 that uses these new forms of resources (CI and its variations).
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