The Organizational Mind: A Comprehensive Framework for the Intelligent Organization

The paper describes an overall view of the organizational mind concept. Our claim is that this concept may become a sound theoretical basis for the development of an useful framework to assist the study of how collective experience is understood and memorized, highlighting the events and objects that organizations choose to pay attention to. It assists also in understanding the language elements upon which the organizational experience is constructed and what processes enable organizations to reason about that experience. However, this is a very complex concept that cannot be tackled in only one research project but in several multidisciplinary and focussed projects. The first research project is starting at the Information Systems Department of the University of Minho (Portugal) and it focuses on one of the aspects of the organizational mind: the selfand metarepresentation capabilities of the organization.