The problem of the study focuses on the main questions about having a correlation effect between two variables: “Early Warning System” and “Smart Organization”. Our research results can be summarized in three points. First, there are the principles of smart organization in those organizations that adopt elements of an early warning system. Second, an early warning system is linked to the significant and positive correlation relationship with all of the principles of smart organization. There are also significant effects of the early warning system in each of the principles of smart organization. Third, the researched organizations tend to be in the present time to adopt all three principles of smart organization. The adoption depends on the availability of the components of the early warning system. © 2021, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.