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why the fittest businesses embrace AI-first strategies and digital labor
A compelling roadmap to building an autonomous business, best positioned to win, using digital labor powered by Agentic and physical AI An autonomous business is designed to be AI-first in its strategies and operations to maximize value and minimize time to value, and when it is done right it will unlock unprecedented speed, scale and shared...
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Seven Key Insights -- What's in This Book? -- Autonomous Company: Organization, Machine, or Organism? -- Who Is This Book for? -- Chapter 1 What Is a Fit Company? -- Introduction -- The AI Boom of 2022 -- Business Adoption Soars -- Why Understanding AI's Evolution Is Crucial -- Implications of AI -- Enter the Autonomous Business -- Chapter 2 Blockages Kill Companies -- Introduction -- Blockages Cause Disease and Death -- Machine Health Is Also Dependent on Flow -- Blockages Slow Down and Even Threaten to Kill Companies
Leadership Blockages -- Operational Blockages -- Cultural Blockages -- Knowledge Management Blockages -- Decision-Making Process Blockages -- External Relationship Blockages -- Technical Debt Blockages -- Change Management Blockages -- Resource Allocation Blockages -- Innovation Blockages -- Psychological Blockages -- Crisis and Resilience Blockages -- Moving Forward: From Identification to Action -- Waste Versus Cost -- Externalities -- From Cost Center to Service Engine: The Rise of the Minimum Viable Cost Center -- To Become Healthy, Remove Your Blockages -- Using AI to Help
Chapter 3 A New Autonomous Operating Model -- Introduction -- Introducing the Autonomous Operating Model -- From OODA to mSUDA -- Sense, Understand, Decide, Act (SUDA) -- Introducing mSUDA: Machine-Scale SUDA for the Autonomous Business -- AI-Powered Sensing -- AI-Powered Understanding -- AI-Powered Decision-Making -- AI-Powered Action -- Chapter 4 Relational Intelligence for Digital Labor -- Introduction -- What Is Digital Labor? -- The Importance of Relationships -- Our People Are the Difference -- Commitment -- The Human Edge: Curiosity and Imagination in the Age of AI
Cognitive Downloads Versus Cognitive Upgrades: A Deliberate Balancing Act -- CHROs Forecast for Adoption of Digital Labor -- The Future of Work Is Hybrid -- Reskilling and Redeploying Talent -- Taking a Team Approach to Agents -- What Happens Next -- Chapter 5 AI-First Design and Nonlinearity -- Introduction -- Performance and Stability -- Reimagining Organizational Design -- Transforming Business Models -- Evolving Leadership Approaches -- Reimagining Product and Service Design -- Redefining Competitive Strategy -- Why Planes and Automobiles? -- The Culture of Effort
Experience: The Diminishing Requirement of Time -- AI-First Strategies -- Autofacturing: Manufacturing Intelligence and Work in the Age of Autonomous Intelligence -- The Digital Twin of the Business: A By-Product of AI-First Design -- Chapter 6 Autonomy and Boundless Principles -- Introduction -- The World Central Kitchen Approach -- Lesson 1: Shared Success -- Lesson 2: Scale Through Connection, Distribution, and Integration -- Lesson 3: Speed Through Flow and Designing for Movement -- Chefs Versus Cooks -- The Boundless Mindset -- Guiding Principle: Shared Success -- Connection -- Distribution
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