AI on Your Org Chart

Join me in the next month or so, as we look at how recent breakthroughs in AI will shape the digital transformation that is occurring all around us and how businesses need to transform to take advantage of it. AI was first implemented at scale in financial companies, following the great recession. It is now expanding into every industry, as new breakthroughs in AI, sensors and robotics increasingly bind the physical and virtual world.

Companies are investing heavily, but for many companies, these digital transformations aren’t working. Why? It’s because we are changing organizational processes without changing organizations: their architecture or culture.

The companies that are thriving in transformation are becoming what we call Software-Defined Business, using new information and communication technologies to completely rewrite the rules HR, finance, supply chain, and go-to-market, and enable massive leaps in productivity. Many of these businesses are already emerging, in unexpected pockets all around the world.

While no one can predict the future, we can sure know a lot about it. In this case we have a significant historical record to draw on as a guide as well as highly reliable data about sociological and economic trends to understand not only what will happen next, but why.?

Process changes like this have occurred before, primarily in the 19th and early 20th century, resulting in the current corporate form...the org chart. Th current hierarchy that is used by all major organizations was designed to work with old technologies that had fixed lines of communication: the telephone and telegraph, the rail road.

But we are in a world where data moves instantaneously between solos and AI makes it possible to make adjustments just as quickly. As the fall of tech giants like GE and HP suggests, the old ways of doing business aren’t competitive anymore.

For the companies that make the needed organizational and cultural changes, it will allow them to become agile at scale. In this book, we profile companies that are leading the way: linking organizational, process and cultural transformation. In the process, we lay out the specific changes you will have to make to respond.

The need to change isn’t just driven by technology and it is inevitable. Major economic, sociological and political shifts are propelling it...and propelling it quickly.

In the process, we'll profile companies around the world that are already ahead of the curve in reinventing their organizations. In so doing, we'll draw a blueprint, showing how any organization can make internal changes that leave it adaptable enough to weather the coming storms, and turn upheaval into opportunity.

Stick around. You'll get a detailed tour of this future and gain the tools you need to prepare for it. The world is changing. Are you ready?

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