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Artificial Intelligence – The Insights You Need From Harvard Business Review – hbr Insights
Companies that don’t use AI will soon be obsolete.
From making faster, better decisions to automating rote work to enabling robots to respond to emotions, AI and machine learning are already reshaping business and society. What should you and your company be doing today to ensure that you’re poised for success and keeping up with your competitors in the age of AI?
Artificial Intelligence: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review brings you today’s most essential thinking on AI and explains how to launch the right initiatives at your company to capitalize on the opportunity of the machine intelligence revolution.
Business is changing. Will you adapt or be left behind?
Get up to speed and deepen your understanding of the topics that are shaping your company’s future with the Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review series. Featuring HBR’s smartest thinking on fast-moving issues–blockchain, cybersecurity, AI, and more–each book provides the foundational introduction and practical case studies your organization needs to compete today and collects the best research, interviews, and analysis to get it ready for tomorrow. You can’t afford to ignore how these issues will transform the landscape of business and society. The Insights You Need series will help you grasp these critical ideas–and prepare you and your company for the future
Being a relative newbie in the world of AI, I have immersed myself with as many articles / books and writings outside of the Microsoft view, so that when I use the AI tools built into Azure I have a better contextual understanding of them.
This Harvard Business Review of AI is a very good overview of some fundamental concepts, aimed at the tech savvy professional looking to understand what AI means to their business.
This book starts off by outlining the current state of AI in the relation to business before it then splits into 4 sections that look at the fundamental concepts and principles of AI:
Understanding AI and Machine Learning
Adopting AI
AI and the Future of Work
The Future of AI
The book is a conglomerate of articles and chapters filed into one of the above 4 sections written by 18 contributors. You get a broad view of AI in the workplace, what big tech use AI for and how they implement and develop with AI. The book describes and poses a series of questions that are insightful for non technical business owners to ask themselves in order to grasp how AI can benefit.
The writers move into the realms of assessing how to choose your first AI project and what to look for in terms of success before philosophising over the impact AI will have on businesses in the immediate short term, before posing a very intereting thought experiment around how AI may change a business model in the terms of what it might mean for Amazon as its example.
A compelling read from start to finish that gives a great overview and understanding of the questions any business should be posing to itself to understand what potential AI has within your business.
I got through the books 170+ pages in around 2 hours and read this in one sitting but for a few interruptions from the kids!! Highly recommended read if you are in the early stages of trying to properly understand AI in the context of business.
This book suggests that ‘Companies that don’t use AI will soon be obsol
