Booktopia’s Tracey Mills handpicks six books to help lead people through technology disruption.
Human + Machine
By James Wilson
Explores how AI is changing the rules of how companies operate. Explains how this requires transformation of all business processes within an organisation; whether related to breakthrough innovation, everyday customer service or personal productivity habits.
The AI Economy
By Roger Bootle
Tackles the implications of AI on growth, productivity, inflation and the distribution of wealth and power. Also examines coming changes to the way we educate, work and spend our leisure time.
Reinventing Jobs
By Ravin Jesuthasan and John Boudreau
An original, structured approach and a set of tools for applying automation and AI in an organisation. Includes practical four-step framework (deconstruct, optimise, automate, and reconfigure) to proactively and continuously reconstruct work and create optimal human-machine combinations.
How AI is Transforming the Organization
By MIT Sloan Management Review
Avoids utopian hype and alarmist doomsaying, providing instead a clear-eyed look at how AI can complement (rather than eliminate) human jobs, with real-world examples from companies that range from Netflix to Walmart.
Artificial Intelligence in Practice
By Bernard Marr with Matt Ward
Reveals how machine-learning technology is transforming the way companies conduct business. Also looks at real companies, describing specific problems and how AI overcame them.
HBR’s 10 Must Reads on AI, Analytics, and the New Machine Age
By Harvard Business Review
Reveals the business potential and implications of a range of technologies including data science, blockchain, drones, driverless vehicles, 3D printing, augmented reality, smart speakers and automation.
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