Objectives

For all companies large and small, the competitive landscape is now global in nature, the responses they make to the marketplace will determine their ability to survive and thrive. By analogy with biological organisms, for example a virus, human organisations will have to be adaptive to be able to persist and survive, this has a direct impact on the design of organisation, its people and their information systems.

What we are now faced with is the need for new methods and techniques for the design of enterprise. The enterprise is a people based “Complex Adaptive System” responding to marketplace patterns and signals, the response that the enterprise makes determines its quality of life and continued survival. The economic health of National and Regional economies is clearly affected by the inductive interactions of these generators of economic goods by the value generated and taxes paid. Human creativity facilitated by technology is fundamental to enterprise in the global marketplace. In the same manner that we have explored product development during the 19th and 20th centuries using our sciences, in the 21st century we now have to embark on an exploration of human organisation for enterprise and value to business and society.

The objective of IJCEnt is to bring together a selection of new perspectives that, focusing on intellect as a core resource in producing and delivering value, analyse the new strategies and the organisations that support them.

Readership

Interested readers include:

• Chief Executive Officers, their advisors and strategy teams
• Corporate leaders with bottom-line responsibilities
• Management consultants
• Business and industry managers
• Academic researchers
• Company presidents
• Libraries and information centres serving the needs of the above

Contents

IJCEnt publishes high-quality original papers and is double blind peer-reviewed. It presents strategies, resources, methodologies, tools and techniques aimed at unlocking key aspects related to intellect and service technologies, relevant for research and practice. Both theoretical and empirical papers are welcome as well as qualitative and quantitative studies. Special Issues devoted to important topics within the aims and scopes of the journal are also considered.