The Executive's How-To Guide to Automation Mastering AI and Algorithm-Driven Business /

• Main Author: Danner, George E. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Business.; Big data.; Management.; Industrial management.; Popular Science in Business and Management.; Big Data/Analytics.; Innovation/Technology Management.

From driverless cars to pilotless planes, many functions that have previously required human labor can now be performed using artificial intelligence. For businesses, this use of AI results in reduced labor costs and, even more important, creating a competitive advantage. How does one look at any or...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Automation is Here
• 2. The Economic Case for Automation
• 3. The Molecules of Automation: Algorithms
• 4. What is Automat-able and What is Not?
• 5. Diagrammatic Decomposition of Corporate Functions
• 6. The Technology Suite of Automation
• 7. Building an Automaton From A Diagram Blueprint
• 8. Testing and Validation: Dear Rubber, Meet Road
• 9. Automation as a Business Strategy
• 10. Automating an Entire Corporation: Baby steps on a long road
• 11. Where do we put the humans?
• 12. Automation Sandboxes
• 13. The Corporation as an Algorithm Factory
• 14. Monetizing a Tapestry of Algorithms
• 15. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
• 16. Your Turn.