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Autonomous : Why the Fittest Businesses Embrace AI-First Strategies and Digital Labor.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Afshar, Vala.
Contributor:
King, Henry.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Organizational behavior--Technological innovations.
Organizational behavior.
Success in business.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (239 pages)
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2025.
Summary:
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.
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?
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
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
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
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.
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes index.
Integration
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ISBN:
139435794X
9781394357949
1394357923
9781394357925
OCLC:
1543212615

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