The Innovation Ultimatum How six strategic technologies will reshape every business in the 2020s
Prepares leaders for the 2020s—an accessible guide to the key technologies that will reshape business in the coming decade Most businesses identify six key digital technologies—artificial intelligence (AI), distributed ledgers and blockchain, the Internet of Things (IoT), autonomous machines, virtua...
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Wiley
2020
John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated Wiley-Blackwell John Wiley & Sons (US) |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro -- The Innovation Ultimatum -- Contents -- Foreword: Don't Fear the Future . . . Prepare for It -- Introduction: To Survive, Every Company Must Become a Tech Company -- The Innovation Ultimatum -- Automation and Augmentation -- Product, Service, and Business-Model Innovation -- The Innovator's Palette -- Six Technologies Intimately Connect the Digital and Physical Worlds -- Winners Will Wield and Combine These Technologies Like Artists Use Color -- Expect More Change in the Next 10 Years Than the Last 40 -- Should I Be Afraid or Excited? -- Getting the Most Out of This Book -- Don't Panic -- Don't Wait -- Get Help -- Part I: Six Technologies That Will Reshape Business in the Next Decade -- Chapter 1: Artificial Intelligence -- What Is It and Why Is It Important? -- Electricity, Digital Computers, and Artificial Intelligence -- The Next Era of Computing: Traditional Digital versus Artificial Intelligence -- A 1950s Concept and 1980s Algorithms Meet Modern Computing Horsepower -- What Can You Do with It? -- Machine Vision: Computers Open Their Eyes -- Natural Language Processing and Voice Platforms -- Exploration and Discovery -- Better-Informed Decision-Making -- Predicting the Future -- Seeing the World through a New Lens with Super Sensors -- Solving Complex Problems by Learning from Experience -- Creating and Co-Creating Content -- Future Uses of AI -- How AI Works -- Neural Networks, Training, and Models -- Example: A Radiology AI -- Pattern Recognition -- Beyond Deep Learning: The Future of Artificial Intelligence -- Stagnation or Golden Age? -- Narrow, General, and Super Intelligence -- Artificial Narrow Intelligence (ANI) -- Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) -- Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI) -- Strategies to Get You Started -- Make Predictions about Customers, Operations, and Trends
- Key Applications for Blockchain Technology -- Payments, E-Commerce, and Contracts -- Energy Trading -- Sharing Economy Apps -- Media Rights -- Supply Chain -- Forecasting and Hedging -- Insurance -- Decentralized Platforms -- Social Media -- Digital Voting -- Government Services -- Healthcare -- Journalism -- Gift Cards and Loyalty Schemes -- The Future of Blockchain -- Scalability and Speed to Meet the Needs of the 2020s -- Interoperability Enables Rapid Value Creation -- Sustainability: Data Integrity without Killing the Planet -- Beyond Blockchains -- Strategies to Get You Started with Blockchain -- Collaborate in New Ways: Build Open Teams and Reward Up-Front Investment with Tokens -- Understand the Threat to Centralized Power in a Decentralized World -- Create Digital Provenance to Speed Audits, Add Traceability, and Establish Chain of Custody -- Reduce Transaction Friction, Remove Intermediaries, and Offer Competitive Payments -- Chapter 5: Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality -- What Are They and Why Are They Important? -- Understand the Reality Spectrum: Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed -- Augmented Reality Is the New Display -- Gesture and Voice Are the New Keyboard and Mouse -- Hands-Free, Click-Free Computing: Computing for the Other 80% -- What Can You Do with Them? -- Virtual Reality: Beyond Games and Porn -- The True Breakthrough Is Augmented Reality -- Bell's Law Goes through the Looking Glass -- Strategies for Success -- Create Hybrid AR Workers That Blend Human and Machine Intelligence -- Build Enterprise Applications That Aid Collaboration and Speed Decisions -- Context-Sensitive AR: Avoid Turning Our World into a Vegas-Like Assault of the Senses -- Chapter 6: Connecting Everything and Everyone: 5G Networks and Satellite Constellations -- 5G-A Lot More Than Just Faster Phones -- One More G! -- Low Latency Enables New Applications
- Connected Factories, Hospitals, Cities, Vehicles, and People -- Flexible Factories -- Telemedicine and Telesurgery -- Connected Vehicles -- Streaming Media: Games and Augmented Reality Headsets -- The Structure of 5G Networks -- Three Networks in One -- Network Slicing -- When Will We Experience 5G? -- Connected Planet: Reaching the Next 4 Billion People -- Satellite Constellations -- Balloons -- Part II: Key Concepts to Help Your Business Adapt and Thrive -- Chapter 7: Align Your Automation Strategy with Your Corporate Purpose -- Automation Is Inevitable: Make Sure You Get It Right -- Purpose and Profit -- The Recipe for Success -- Examples -- Raise Your Aim: Solve a Higher Class of Business Problems with the Intimacy of IoT -- Hierarchy of Goals -- Get Quick Wins but Keep Your Aim High -- Build Human/Machine Partnerships to Boost Productivity, Improve Quality, and Increase Employee Engagement -- The New Diversity: Teams of Humans and Nonhumans Working Together -- Know When to Use Each of Your Resource Pools: People, Robots, and Artificial Intelligence -- Retail Example: The Semi-Automated Changing Room -- Your CIO and CHRO Just Became Best Friends -- Empower Your Employees, Elevate Their Work, and Maintain the Humanity in Your Brand -- The Importance of a Thoughtful Approach to Automation -- Chapter 8: The Data Ultimatum: Data as Fuel for Business Innovation -- The Strategic Importance of Data: Data-Driven Decisions, Hungry AI, and Frictionless Experiences -- Data-Driven Decision-Making Kills the Gut -- Process Automation Coordinates Human and Machine Resources -- Feed the Voracious Hunger of Your AIs -- Use Data to Deliver What Your Customers Want: Customization versus Personalization -- Create New Value with Data -- Turn Data into Dollars by Monetizing Your Insights -- Elevate Your Offering: Products to Services to Experiences to Transformations
- See More, Understand More, Make Better Decisions -- Build a Comprehensive Digital Voice Strategy -- Understand and Mitigate for Bias -- Gather Data Today to Feed Your AIs of the Future -- Develop New Products and Services -- Final Thoughts -- Chapter 2: Sensors and the Internet of Things (IoT) -- Cheap, Tiny Computers and 100 Trillion Sensors Make Everything Smart and Connected -- Cheap, Tiny Computers Transform the Economics of Connecting Everything -- 100 Trillion Sensors Connect the Digital and Physical Worlds -- What Can You Do with It? -- Get Eyes on Your Business with a Suite of Sensors -- Build Service Portals: Smart Objects Create New Revenue Streams -- New Business Models -- Build Responsive Infrastructure with Control Loops -- Beyond Productivity and Efficiency: Optimize Your Business at a Higher Level -- Make Higher-Quality Decisions with Analytics -- Understand the Four Main Flavors of Analytics -- The Internet of People: Wearables and Hearables -- Strategies to Get Eyes on Your Business and Act on Events in Real Time -- Chapter 3: Autonomous Machines-Robots, Cobots, Drones, and Self-Driving Vehicles -- What Are They and Why Are They Important? -- What Can They Do? -- Robots Escape Their Cages and Safely Share Our World -- Drones Fill Our Skies and Do Real Work -- Autonomous Vehicles Upset the Apple Cart -- Strategies for Success -- Automate, Semi-Automate, and Elevate Human Work -- Chapter 4: Distributed Ledgers and Blockchains -- Beyond Cryptocurrencies: Why Blockchain Is a Big Deal -- Blockchain 101 -- What Is a Blockchain? -- Distributed and Decentralized -- Immutability and Truth -- Cryptocurrencies, Tokens, Smart Contracts, and dApps -- Cryptocurrencies and Tokens -- Smart Contracts -- Distributed Apps (dApps) -- Establishing Truth in a Trustless World -- Shifting Incentives with Token Economics
- Data Spirals: Create Increasing Levels of Value Using Moore's Law of Data -- Chapter 9: The Future of Work: What to Expect and How to Make Yourself "Robot-Proof" -- The History of Work: From the Physical to the Knowledge Era -- The Next Era of Work: Augmented Work -- AI Commoditizes Some Knowledge Work, and More Physical Work, Too -- Automation Armageddon: Plan a "Robot-Proof " Career -- Which Jobs Are at Risk? -- The Sky Isn't Falling . . . Yet -- Becoming "Robot-Proof" -- Complex, Diverse Teams of T-Shaped Individuals -- New Technology Creates New Types of Work -- Keeping the World Spinning in the Postautomation Economy -- Identity, Purpose, and Life 2.0 -- Upskilling and Reskilling Millions -- A New Social Contract -- All Hands on Deck -- Part III: Lessons from Industry, Sector by Sector -- Chapter 10: Keeping Healthcare Healthy: What Every Business Can Learn from Healthcare Tech -- The Challenge: Meeting the Needs of an Aging Population -- Artificial Intelligence Improves Patient Interactions and Outcomes -- The Predictive Capabilities of AI Transform Public Health -- Artificial Intelligence Discovers Drugs and Designs Prosthetics -- Digital Diagnosis Complements Traditional Care -- Artificial Intelligence "Sees" Patients in New Ways with Super-Sensing -- Healthcare Gets Personal with Precision Medicine -- Drones Save Lives -- The Remote-Monitored Patient: Sensors and Wearables Flip the Model -- Blockchain-Based Medical Records Reward Healthy Behavior and Take Us Beyond Accidental Wellness -- Augmented Reality and 5G Transform Telesurgery and Telemedicine -- Chapter 11: Transforming Human Mobility: What Every Business Can Learn from Transport Tech -- The Challenge: Climate, Traffic, and Moving Deathtraps -- Automotive Accidents Claim More Than a Million Lives Each Year -- One Sixth of All Greenhouse Gases Spew from Our Transport Systems
- Traffic Chokes Cities, Slows Economic Activity, and Wastes Time