BEST ARTICLE AWARD 2025

Designing the Intelligent Organization: Six Principles for Human-AI Collaboration

We are pleased to announce that "Designing the Intelligent Organization: Six Principles for Human-AI Collaboration" by Vegard Kolbjørnsrud is the winner of the 2025 Best Article Award.

Each year, California Management Review recognizes the article published during the preceding year that has made the most important contribution to management practice. This article was selected as a finalist based on its performance and distribution, and the final selection was made by members of the California Management Review Editorial Board in April 2025.

This article presents principles and practical guidelines for how managers can succeed in growing the intelligence of their organizations by harnessing the complementary strengths of humans and artificial intelligence (AI). Organizational intelligence is the ability of collectives of intelligent human and digital actors to solve problems and adapt. Six principles for human-AI collaboration in organizations are explored—addition, relevance, substitution, diversity, collaboration, and explanation—and how they play out in leading organizations is discussed. Finally, practical guidelines are outlined for how leaders can enable their organizations to successfully make the change.

Timely and well-written ... this article brings clarity to thinking about AI-human interaction in its different forms in organizations.

Designing the Intelligent Organization: Six Principles for Human-AI Collaboration
This article presents principles and practical guidelines for how managers can succeed in growing the intelligence of their organizations by harnessing the complementary strengths of humans and artificial intelligence (AI).