Today's enterprises deploy IT to do their business, which introduces significant complexity. This technical complexity combined with organizational complexity can and does create internal "islands of inefficiency" that are difficult to deal with. The notion of the IE is characterized by the ability of businesses to morph into new forms/entities with some surprising results. We envision that in the future IEs will willingly transform themselves into better forms by becoming "more intelligent". Intelligent enterprises (IE) have broad horizons with long-term perspectives. They will derive efficiencies through the automation of their core business processes, and the exploitation of knowledge. Agility will be improved by one or two orders of magnitude, intelligence density within the enterprise will grow sharply and problem-solving capacities will be dramatically enhanced. They will form dynamic partnerships with other enterprises to create dynamic business ecosystems, which will be self-managed, self-configured and self-optimized. Consequently, they will exploit new forms of business value creation, adjusting their behaviors to the markets.
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