Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World
by Marco Iansiti
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See customer reviews on Amazon →Competing in the Age of AI lays out how data and AI change firm boundaries and operating logic, trading technical detail for managerial analysis and corporate examples. Reading feels like a series of executive briefings: chapters provide vocabulary and limitations useful when arguing reorganizations, governance choices, and platform economics. The most usable sections are the firm-level reasoning and the case comparisons that show where AI alters processes, decision rights, and scale. Friction sets in when long managerial analyses repeat similar lessons without concrete operational steps. It offers little engineering-level how-to.
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In industry after industry, data, analytics, and AIdriven processes are transforming the nature of work. While we often still treat AI as the domain of a specific skill, business function, or sector, we have entered a new era in which AI is challenging the very concept of the firm. AIcentric organizations exhibit a new operating Architecture,, red...
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