Business organizations more now than ever before operate in a larger number of markets and increasingly ‘organic growth’ is the key to strategic and operational successes. In pursuance to that success professional managers at all levels are progressively recognizing the inherent need to explore more innovative inroads in enhancing their own individual performance role and that of their respective teams/colleagues. Very seldom are innovative thought and their application a Eureka Moment, they are, in the main highly dependent upon a broadening of the intellectual capital maintained and encouraged within the structure of the firm. Whilst advanced technologies have over the last four decades provided tremendous opportunities for growth in market share for those organizations willing to grasp the IT phenomenon, as we now approach the second decade of the new millennium increased global ‘immediate’ access to advanced technologies has by steady tread somewhat leveled the playing

field in search of that market share and most importantly competitive advantage. Innovation has fast become and is increasingly being seen as the very lifeblood of the business organization, however without due intelligence applied, that is the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience, ‘the best laid plans of mice and men are doomed to failure.

The objective of this special edition is to provide academic theorists, practitioners and respective overlap between the two a meaningful opportunity to present new and significant insights into the concepts of innovation and the intelligence ‘building’ required to underpin the innovative process.

In tandem with our associations’ forthcoming international conference www.ipmc2010.my this special edition invites prospective contributors an opportunity to consider the existing orthodoxies and extend current understanding of innovation and intelligence in the field of professional management.