ICAS

The Intelligent Complex Adaptive System model for organizations

The ICAS model is the subject of the Bennt's 2004 book: Organizational Survival in the New World: The Intelligent Complex Adaptive System (Elsevier, 2004). Go to Amazon to purchase the hard copy or downloadable and searchable eBook.

See the research area on ICAS for additional thoughts and materials. See also related concepts in ICAL (Leadership), ICAP (Professional), and ICAT (Team).

Associative Patterning: The Unconscious Life of an Organization. Introduces associative patterning in the mind/brain and provides a brief discussion of basic concepts related to the unconscious life of an organization. then addresses specific aspects of knowledge, learning and memory, providing a language and framework for comprehending their application to organizations. these aspects of knowledge are then related to organizational memory and ideas and actions leaders can consider to enhance and sustain organizational memory are introduced. (PDF, 23 pages)

Evolution of Organizations: From Bureaucracy to Intelligent Complex Adaptive Systems by Alex and David Bennet. Historical evolution and structure of organizations. Shows relationships of organizations to the environment in which they exist. (PDF, 21 pages)

The Intelligent Complex Adaptive System Model. Introduction of the theory of the ICAS as a living organization. (PDF, 21 pages)

Exploring Relationships Among the Emergent Characteristics and Creating an Emergent Culture in the Intelligent Complex Adaptive System. Compares the eight top-level emergent characteristics of the ICAS: organizational intelligence, unity and shared purpose, optimum complexity, selectivity, knowledge centricity, flow, permeable boundaries and multidimensionality. (PDF, 16 pages)

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Comparison of Classical and ICAS Management Approaches graphic. (Single PowerPoint graphic)

Major Characteristics of the ICAS graphic. (PDF, 1 page)

Factors Driving Emergence graphic. (Single PowerPoint graphic)

The Knowledge Organization of the Future: Survival and Performance. Lengthy presentation on the ICAS organization. (PDF, 36 slides)

Organizational Health in an Uncertain World. Introduces CUCA (increasing Change, Uncertainty, Complexity and Anxiety) and provides tools to look at organization's external environment, then introduces health factors. (PDF, 14 pages)

Mobilizing Knowledge for Sustainable Optimum Performance. Extensive treatment of ICAS, Sustainability (Organizational Health) and introduces Knowledge Mobilization. (PDF, 61 pages)