What To Do When Machines Do Everything

Refreshingly thought-provoking The Financial Times The essential playbook for the future of your business What To Do When Machines Do Everything is a guidebook to succeeding in the next generation of the digital economy. When systems running on Artificial Intelligence can drive our cars, diagnose medical patients, and manage our finances more effectively than humans it raises profound questions on the future of work and how companies compete. Illustrated with real-world cases, data, and insight, the authors provide clear strategic guidance and actionable steps to help you and your organization move ahead in a world where exponentially developing new technologies are changing how value is created. Written by a team of business and technology expert practitioners who also authored Code Halos: How the Digital Lives of People, Things, and Organizations are Changing the Rules of Business this book provides a clear path to the future of your work. The first part of the book examines the once in a generation upheaval most every organization will soon face as systems of intelligence go mainstream. The authors argue that contrary to the doom and gloom that surrounds much of IT and business at the moment, we are in fact on the cusp of the biggest wave of opportunity creation since the Industrial Revolution. Next, the authors detail a clear-cut business model to help leaders take part in this coming boom; the AHEAD model outlines five strategic initiatives Automate, Halos, Enhance, Abundance, and Discovery that are central to competing in the next phase of global business by driving new levels of efficiency, customer intimacy and innovation. Business leaders today have two options: be swallowed up by the ongoing technological evolution, or ride the crest of the wave to new profits and better business. This book shows you how to avoid your own extinction event, and will help you; Understand the untold full extent of technology's impact on the way we work and live. Find out where we're headed, and how soon the future will arrive Leverage the new emerging paradigm into a sustainable business advantage Adopt a strategic model for winning in the new economy The digital world is already transforming how we work, live, and shop, how we are governed and entertained, and how we manage our money, health, security, and relationships. Don't let your business or your career get left behind. What To Do When Machines Do Everything is your strategic roadmap to a future full of possibility and success. Or peril.

"Refreshingly thought-provoking..." - The Financial TimesThe essential playbook for the future of your businessWhat To Do When Machines Do Everything is a guidebook to succeeding in the next generation of the digital economy. When systems running on Artificial Intelligence can drive our cars, diagnose medical patients, and manage our finances more effectively than humans it raises profound questions on the future of work and how companies compete. Illustrated with real-world cases, data, and insight, the authors provide clear strategic guidance and actionable steps to help you and your organization move ahead in a world where exponentially developing new technologies are changing how value is created.Written by a team of business and technology expert practitioners--who also authored Code Halos: How the Digital Lives of People, Things, and Organizations are Changing the Rules of Business--this book provides a clear path to the future of your work.The first part of the book examines the once in a generation upheaval most every organization will soon face as systems of intelligence go mainstream. The authors argue that contrary to the doom and gloom that surrounds much of IT and business at the moment, we are in fact on the cusp of the biggest wave of opportunity creation since the Industrial Revolution. Next, the authors detail a clear-cut business model to help leaders take part in this coming boom; the AHEAD model outlines five strategic initiatives--Automate, Halos, Enhance, Abundance, and Discovery--that are central to competing in the next phase of global business by driving new levels of efficiency, customer intimacy and innovation.Business leaders today have two options: be swallowed up by the ongoing technological evolution, or ride the crest of the wave to new profits and better business. This book shows you how to avoid your own extinction event, and will help you;* Understand the untold full extent of technology's impact on the way we work and live.* Find out where we're headed, and how soon the future will arrive* Leverage the new emerging paradigm into a sustainable business advantage* Adopt a strategic model for winning in the new economyThe digital world is already transforming how we work, live, and shop, how we are governed and entertained, and how we manage our money, health, security, and relationships. Don't let your business--or your career--get left behind. What To Do When Machines Do Everything is your strategic roadmap to a future full of possibility and success. Or peril.

Preface ixChapter 1 When Machines Do Everything 1Like It or Not, This Is Happening 3Digital That Matters 4Playing the New Game 6But Will I Be Automated Away? 8Getting AHEAD in the Age of the New Machine 9Chapter 2 From Stall to Boom: We've Been Here Before 13When Machines Do Everything, What Happens to Us? 14But Haven't Our Computers Made Us MoreProductive? 15Carlota's Way 16Riding the Waves 17Three Big Reasons Why a Boom Is About to Occur 21From Stall to Boom, a Time of Optimism 31Chapter 3 There Will Be Blood 33Predictions of Massive Job Losses via AI 33Manual vs. Knowledge Labor: As Goes the Factory, SoGoes the Office? 36Don't Confuse Jobs with Tasks 38Don't Overlook the Job-Growth Story 40The Pace of This Transition 42Getting AHEAD in a Time of Churn 43Chapter 4 The New Machine: Systems of Intelligence 45Defining the New Machine 46Meet the Machine: Anatomy of a System of Intelligence 50Systems of Intelligence in Action 56What Does "Good" Look Like? Attributes of a Successful System of Intelligence 59From Vapor to Value 63Chapter 5 Your New Raw Materials: Data Is Better than Oil 65Turning Data from a Liability into an Asset 66Managing the Data Supply Chain 68Business Analytics: Turning Data into Meaning 70If It Costs More than $5, and You Can't Eat It, Instrument It! 71The Home-Field Advantage of Big Companies 73Data Is Job One 76Chapter 6 Digital Business Models: Your Five Ways to Beat Silicon Valley 77Hybrid Is the New Black 81Avoiding the Four Traps 82Five Ways to Mine Gold from the New Machines 90The Management Opportunity of a Generation 92Chapter 7 Automate: The Robots Aren't Coming; They're Here 95Automation Is Not Optional 96Software Should Be Eating Your Core Operations 102What to Do on Monday? Flick Your Automation-On Switch 107Automation Is a Means, Not an End 113Chapter 8 Halo: Instrument Everything, Change the Game 115Every "Thing" Is Now a Code Generator 116Become a "Know-It-All" 120What to Do on Monday? Capitalize on Code 124Digits over Widgets: The Next Age of Business and Technology 132Chapter 9 Enhance: Amplify Human Performance with the New Machine 133Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age . . . Digital Age 135Enhanced Jobs Will Be Protected Jobs 136Smart Robots Make Smarter Hands 141What to Do on Monday? Partner with Systems of Intelligence 145You + New Tools = Enhancement 151Chapter 10 Abundance: Finding Your 10X Opportunities with the New Machine 153What to Do on Monday? Find Abundance in Your Organization 157Increasing Prosperity by Lowering Prices 165Chapter 11 Discovery: Manage Innovation for the Digital Economy 167R&D Without AI Is No R&D at All 171Discovery Is Hard, but Not as Hard as Being Irrelevant 176What to Do on Monday? Don't Short Human Imagination 176Create Your Own Budding Effect 185Chapter 12 Competing on Code: A Call to Action from the Future 187AI for Pragmatists 188The Digital Build-Out Is Here 189Align the Three M's 190Move AHEAD 191Courage and Faith in the Future 192Acknowledgments 195Photo Credits 197Disclaimers 199Notes 205Index 223