Masoud Pour Kiani - Department of Management, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Islamic Azad University, Kerman, Iran
Maryam Pourjafari Jozam - Department of Management, policy and health economics, Faculty of Management and Information, University of Medical Science, Kerman, Iran
Mina Pourjafari Jozam - Department of Industrial Management, Faculty of Management and Accounting, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

Nowadays, numerous factors affect survival of service and industrial units; these factors change rapidly. Organizations should always adapt themselves to changes occurred in environment and their surrounding and should move with them. An organization should not only change its status once in a while, but it should realize that the change phenomenon is permanent and its survival will depend on having such a procedure in the competitive world. Therefore, they are forced to use their resources such as organizational intelligence in the best way to survive. One of the most important abilities of an organization is organizational intelligence that increases the variability capacity of the organization. To do this, organizational intelligence, environmental changes at present and the role of intelligence in survival of organizations with regards to environmental changes are respectively studied in this article.

Organizational Intelligence, Environmental changes, survival of the organization and competitive advantage