Competing in the Age of AI

 

Preface

Colliding Worlds

This book defines the age of AI by the emergence of a different kind of organization, structured for a business environment shaped by digital networks, analytics, and artificial intelligence. Its defining characteristic is a distinct kind of operating architecture—one that is horizontally connected, designed to leverage an integrated foundation of data and to drive the rapid deployment of AI-powered applications, enabling exponential growth in scale, scope, and learning. The architecture departs from the traditional, siloed structure of firms, which limits growth and responsiveness, prevents agile communication and coordination, localizes decision making, and traps technology and data in isolated pockets. The new ...