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Autonomous 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 u...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Afshar, Vala (Author), King, Henry (Innovation leader) (Author)
Corporate Author: Safari, an O'Reilly Media Company
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2025.
Subjects:
Organizational behavior > Technological innovations.
Success in business.
Comportement organisationnel > Innovations.
Succès dans les affaires.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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
  • 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