Enabling Knowledge-workers Commitment to Organizational Intelligence Activities

Organizational intelligence refers to the process of turning data into knowledge and knowledge into action for organizational gain. Technology makes information sharing almost limitless, but human ability to take in and process information have not developed in pace with the amount of information available. One important obstacle for cognitive individual development is the increasing lack of attention. This paper proposes that effective and efficient organizational intelligence has its roots in individual attention, and that this attention can be managed. All environmental scanning builds on individual attention. This research aims at investigating factors that motivates ordinary knowledge workers to focus attention to signals in the organizational environment, signals to be interpreted in organizational intelligence processes.