Determinants of Intellectual Management and Sustainable Development as a Challenge and Way of Forward: an Exploratory Investigation

Intellectual Management (IM) and Sustainable Development (SD) has been studied to investigate the influence and relationship between them. To reach the purposes, 283 relevant collected data from 30 organizations were utilized for result analysis while a self-administered survey instrument on IM and SD were distributed through simple random sampling technique by selected representatives. A perfect positive relationship between IM & SD and a strong positive influence of IM on SD in the different universities and banking organizations have been found in the findings from the analysis of descriptive and inferential statistics. The findings and future directions definitely proposed to think for taking tactful decisions, initiatives with intellectual strategies to face 21^st century's challenges and obstacles by the concerned academical and managerial authorities at the educational and banking sector in Bangladesh. The real observations & experiences suggests that an ‘emergent intellectual problem solving team’ is recommended to reduce problems of bureaucracy, system-loss, session-jam, biasness of concerned authorities, religious & localization discrimination and solve any kind of problem without wasting valuable times of students at educational sector and customers or clients at financial institutions of Bangladesh. The paper has minimum limitations but a great theoretical implication in the field of literatures and practical implications for the academicians, bankers, entrepreneurs, professional and other business holders or industrialists.