Research on intelligence of medium sized enterprises

At the end of the nineties of the 20th century the concept of intelligent organization was introduced to the theory of management as a result of the development of the concept of a learning organization. Numerous studies confirm that improving the intelligence organizations can be achieved when an organization has the ability to learn quickly and accurately. The ability to learn is necessary condition of intelligence of organization. The company that accumulates knowledge is a learning organization. If' however' it is able to use the resource' which knowledge is' for its own benefit and intentionally develop it to suit the ongoing and anticipated changes in the environment' then it is an intelligent organization. In this paper the result of investigation on the relationship between Knowledge Based Economy (KBE) and changes of enterprises, intelligence is presented. To identify the relationship the Knowledge Based Methodology (KAM) was used to assess the changes occurring in the environment. They were treated as independent variables. Next' using a questioner' the changes of intelligence of enterprises were identified. The changes were interpreted as dependent variables. The correlation between independent and dependent variables has shown that Polish medium sized enterprises improved their intelligence however the improvement was disproportional to the development of KBE. In this paper the drivers and barriers of the development of intelligence are presented.