What to Do When Machines Do Everything: How to Get Ahead in a World of AI, Algorithms, Bots, and Big Data; Contents; Preface; 1: When Machines Do Everything; Like It or Not, This Is Happening; Digital That Matters; Playing the New Game; But Will I Be Automated Away?; Getting AHEAD in the Age of the New Machine; 2: From Stall to Boom: We've Been Here Before; When Machines Do Everything, What Happens to Us?; But Haven't Our Computers Made Us More Productive?; Carlota's Way; Riding the Waves; The Burst of Innovation (1980-2000); The Stall (2000-2015); The Build-Out (2015-2040).
Three Big Reasons Why a Boom Is About to Occur``Ubiquitech-́́Technology Embedded into Everything; By 2030 Standards, We Stink; Becoming Digital: Mastering the Three M's; New Business Models Take Shape in the Stall Zone; From Stall to Boom, a Time of Optimism; 3: There Will Be Blood; Predictions of Massive Job Losses via AI; Manual vs. Knowledge Labor: As Goes the Factory, So Goes the Office?; Don't Confuse Jobs with Tasks; Don't Overlook the Job-Growth Story; The Pace of This Transition; Getting AHEAD in a Time of Churn; 4: The New Machine: Systems of Intelligence; Defining the New Machine.
Artificial Intelligence: Why a Narrow View Is BestMeet the Machine: Anatomy of a System of Intelligence; Users, Customers, and Employees; The App Interface; The AI ``Innards;́́ Data from Things and Systems of Record; Infrastructure; Systems of Intelligence in Action; The Machine That Is Netflix (Thanks to AI); What Does ``Good ́́Look Like? Attributes of a Successful System of Intelligence; From Vapor to Value; 5: Your New Raw Materials: Data Is Better than Oil; Turning Data from a Liability into an Asset; Managing the Data Supply Chain; Business Analytics: Turning Data into Meaning.
If It Costs More than 5, and You Can't Eat It, Instrument It!Table for Two? Or Two Thousand?; The Home-Field Advantage of Big Companies; Data Is Job One; 6: Digital Business Models: Your Five Ways to Beat Silicon Valley; Hybrid Is the New Black; Avoiding the Four Traps; Trap 1: Taking the Easy Way Out of ``Doing Digital ́́vs. ``Being Digital;́́ Trap 2: The FANG Trap; Trap 3: Boiling the Ocean; Trap 4: The Digital Denial Trap; Five Ways to Mine Gold from the New Machines; The Management Opportunity of a Generation; 7: Automate: The Robots Aren't Coming; They're Here.
Automation Is Not OptionalWe Have Been Automating with Digital for Some Time; Software Should Be Eating Your Core Operations; What to Do on Monday? Flick Your Automation-On Switch; Set Your 25%-25% Automation Imperative; Find Your Process-Automation Targets; Break Through the ``Brass Wall;́́ Build a Repeatable Process to Obliterate Work; Automation Is a Means, Not an End; 8: Halo: Instrument Everything, Change the Game; Every ``Thing ́́Is Now a Code Generator; Three New Rules of Competition; Become a ``Know-It-All;́́ Know Your Back Office Too!; What to Do on Monday? Capitalize on Code.
