Networked Improvement Communites

In Doug Engelbart's terms, an improvement community is any group involved in a collective pursuit to improve a given capability. 

An improvement community that puts special attention on how it can be dramatically more effective at solving important problems, boosting its collective IQ, is a networked improvement community (NIC). 

Improvement communities opperate at the C-level activities in an organization (see above). Meaning the group is improving the capabilities of the people working on improving the business as usual-type activities.