Digital Transformation Shaping the Subconscious Minds of Organizations

This book offers a new framework for conceptualizing, managing and generally using new information and communication technologies, for example in decision support and artificial intelligence in organizations. The book supports managers to actively guide t

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Digital Transformation Shaping the Subconscious Minds of Organizations Innovative Organizations and Hybrid Intelligences

Digital Transformation Shaping the Subconscious Minds of Organizations

Werner Leodolter

Digital Transformation Shaping the Subconscious Minds of Organizations Innovative Organizations and Hybrid Intelligences

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Werner Leodolter Center of Entrepreneurship and Applied Business Studies University of Graz Graz Austria

ISBN 978-3-319-53617-0 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-53618-7

ISBN 978-3-319-53618-7

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To Konstantin, my grandson

Foreword

Evolution has equipped humans with specific abilities that reside in our brains and which give us dominion over land, sea, and earth including all other species. With the intelligence provided by this brain, mankind has developed speech, technology, and complex social organizations with each generation building upon the achievements of prior generations. In all those developments also subconscious processes play important roles— especially when it comes to perceiving, recognizing, evaluating, deciding, or acting. This also applies when humans make decisions in organizations—the efficient “thinking fast” with all its biases and prejudices evoking the laborious “thinking slow” when it comes to complex issues. Organizations are complex social structures where humans are essential elements and which are controlled by them. In recent years, new technologies have not just changed many parameters in organizations, but also influenced the way how decisions