Название: The Nature of Business Transformation: A Swarm Intelligent Approach to Reinventing Organisations
Автор: Richard Kelly
Издательство: Routledge
Год: 2022
Страниц: 301
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 14.6 MB

This book is a practical guide for business professionals to develop and improve business intelligence and collective decision-making within their organisation. It proposes a progressive reconfiguration of the traditional business operating system using a nature-inspired framework called swarm facilitation that enables and facilitates collective decision-making. Organisations have followed the same rigid formula of problem-solving and decision-making for over 100 years. It is dominated by centralised governance and pyramid decision-making. Such an approach is no longer fit for purpose in an environment of employee disengagement, Artificial Intelligence (AI)/superintelligence.

Machine and Deep Learning are two technologies that have been behind the scenes evolving AI. It is important to be clear about a common misconception: AI, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning are not interchangeable terms. We have seen that AI is about understanding intelligent entities. According to Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google, Machine Learning is transformative and ‘rethinking everything we’re doing’. Vandit Gupta defines Deep Learning as something that ‘imitates the workings of the human brain in processing data and creating patterns for use in decision- making’. It has artificial neural networks (ANN) that connect like a web that can learn unsupervised from unlabelled, nonlinear, and unstructured data.

By the end of this book, readers will be able to:

- solve organisational problems and challenges collectively using Swarm Intelligence;
- upgrade and future-proof business operating systems to reflect a more collective decision-making approach fit for the new connected economy and Industry 4.0;
- embrace mindset quotients that support people working in a more networked, self-organising, and collective environment.

The book is important reading for leaders and managers who are focused on building organisational capital and engagement and gaining value from the emerging technology by evolving their business operating system into a digital ecosystem as part of an ongoing digital transformation strategy. It will also appeal to experts working in the field of organisational change and development, both within the organisation and as consultants.