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  title info:
    title: Autonomous
    sub title: why the fittest businesses embrace AI-first strategies and digital labor
  name:
    name part: Afshar, Vala
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: King, Henry
    name part: (Innovation leader)
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Safari, an O'Reilly Media Company
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nju
    place:
      place term: Newark
    publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
    date issued: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (239 p.)
  abstract: 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...
  table of contents: 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
  table of contents: 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
  table of contents: 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
  table of contents: 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
  table of contents: 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
  note: Vala Afshar, Henry King.
  note: Description based upon print version of record.
  note: Includes index.
  note: Integration
  subject:
    topic: Organizational behavior
    topic: Technological innovations
  subject:
    topic: Success in business
  subject:
    topic: Comportement organisationnel
    topic: Innovations
  subject:
    topic: Succès dans les affaires
  classification: HD58.7
  classification: 658
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Autonomous
    name:
      name part: Afshar, Vala
    origin info:
      publisher: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,c2025
  identifier: 9781394357949
  identifier: 139435794X
  identifier: 9781394357925 O'Reilly Media
  identifier: https://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: EBLCP
    record creation date: 251018
    record change date: 20260128151803.5
    record identifier: in00005672178
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng