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Collective intelligence

When different knowledge and perspectives become a shared capacity.

The question we start from

How does what we each know become something we can use together?

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Collective intelligence is a group's capacity to turn people's different knowledge, experience and perspectives into shared understanding, decisions, action and learning.

Knowledge sits distributed between people. It becomes usable when it can be made visible, examined together and integrated into a shared picture.

The capacity grows in how the group works: how it listens, reflects, decides, acts and learns from what happens.

One situation, four perspectives

The perspectives are equal. Together they make the situation clearer.

A group is about to make a decision and notices that each person describes the situation in their own way.

Me: What do I know and see that is not yet in the group's shared picture, and how do I contribute it?
We: How do we examine one another's perspectives, and how do we weave them into something we can use?
The organisation: Which ways of working, forums and decision paths make knowledge available across boundaries in the organisation?
The system: Which knowledge sits with customers, partners and other actors, and how does it enter our shared picture?

Practising the perspective

Here we show how the perspective can be trained and applied in everyday work.

Shared practice

Dragonfly

Collective intelligence is built in a group's shared work. Dragonfly is Katalystra's shared workspace, where a team can make perspectives visible and work on the same question over time.

There the group can gather what each person sees, examine the differences, weave a shared picture, test a next step and learn from what happened. This is our way of applying the perspective in practice.

The environment is described here and becomes available later on.

Individual practice

Instar

Shared work is also carried by each person: noticing your own thinking, articulating what you see and listening to others. Instar is Katalystra's environment for the individual part.

Here attention, reflection and perspective-taking find room in everyday work between shared sessions.

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Collective intelligenceLeadership in complexityStrategyOperational ExcellenceTransformation capacity

Leadership in complexity
Creating direction, collaboration and capacity for action when reality is complex.
Strategy
Creating direction and the capacity to move towards it.
Operational Excellence
Improvement capability that develops and is carried in everyday work.
Transformation capacity
The capacity to develop and renew the organisation over time.