Collective Intelligence

A few posts back I was struggling to find a term for the phenomenon of what I called then "macro intelligence". Turns out (credit where credit is due), there has already been coined a term for that: collective intelligence

Diagram courtesy of Wikipedia.com - Author: Olga Generozova. The diagram is based on the types and examples of collective intelligence discussed in the books 'The wisdom of crowds' and 'Smart mobs'

The momentum in the media for this phenomenon only came from the proliferation of what we call "social networks" on the internet now. But in a way, the trend has been there all along, just the media has become more efficient and finally put the potential of high-velocity collaboration into the lime light.

Collective Intelligence was the concept I so ardently tried to wrap my head around, when I aspired to integrate Business Intelligence with a more holistic approach to approach broad solutions toward complex problems.