Want to know about an organisation at a collective level? Measure its OQ.
OQ or Organisational InQuisitiveness is about the organisation at a collective level, says IT consultant Kapil Dev Singh in his book "Looking Inward".
"It reflects the purpose, practices, people and IT aspects of the organisation in terms of ability to think critically. While at an individual level it is about people, at the organisational level, it needs other elements to institutionalise it as a bigger phenomenon," he writes.
According to the author, four elements - purpose, practices, people and IT - reflect the cultural, structural, behavioural and the technological dimensions of OQ.
"A high OQ would allow the organisation to leverage its big data more fruitfully than when the OQ is low. A high OQ would also mean that the adoption of analysis or big data will be leveraged through active participation of organisational members," he writes.
The book, published by Zorba, is the result of Singh's interaction with CEOs, CIOs and other CXOs of large and medium enterprises. He has presented important perspectives in strategy, structure, leadership and culture, with the aim of enabling organisations to look inward, to ensure that it does not "remain a mere rhetoric".
