Your AI Survival Guide

Sol Rashidi

• 30 april 2024
• 9781394272631

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Practical and proven AI deployment strategies for non-technical business leaders and C-suite executives

In Your AI Survival Guide, business executive and technologist Sol Rashidi delivers invaluable lessons she’s learned as an early adopter of artificial intelligence. The author walks you through how to overcome the most common obstacles that stand in the way of effective AI deployment and shows you how to get executive buy-in for your most ambitious AI plans.

The book contains real-world use cases that span ten different industries, including retail, insurance, agriculture, healthcare, energy, and more. It explains a new way of thinking about AI based on Rashidi’s first-hand experience working with some of the world’s leading companies.

Your AI Survival Guide demystifies the topic of artificial intelligence in a way that business leaders and C-suite professionals without a technical background will find easy to understand and apply. It uncomplicates a seemingly complicated topic, offering jargon-free language and accessible storytelling that everyone can understand. It’s perfect for managers, executives, directors, entrepreneurs, founders, and other business leaders hoping to better understand this important technology.

Practical and proven AI deployment strategies for non-technical business leaders

In Your AI Survival Guide: Scraped Knees, Bruised Elbows, and Lessons Learned from Real-World AI Deployments, business executive and technologist Sol Rashidi delivers an insightful and practical discussion of how to deploy artificial intelligence in your company. Having helped IBM launch Watson in 2011, Sol has first-hand knowledge of the ups, downs, and change management intricacies that can help you with a successful deployment beyond all the AI hype. She walks you through various frameworks for how to establish your AI strategy, pick your use cases, prepare your non-technology teams, and overcome the most common obstacles standing in the way of successfully implementing AI in your business, based on her many years of deploying AI projects in businesses, which few can claim.

Sol demystifies the topic of artificial intelligence in a way that business leaders and business owners—and those who want to be more business minded—can easily understand. The book also offers:

• Real-world use cases from ten different industries, including retail, healthcare, energy, insurance, agriculture, and more; ten different functions, including supply chain, manufacturing, procurement, legal, and more; and personal stories, anecdotes, and insights gained from implementations
• Techniques for facilitating executive-level buy-in for your most ambitious and promising AI strategies
• Jargon-free and accessible language that simplifies a seemingly complicated topic
• And practical advice that’s not based on AI hype

Perfect for executives, managers, directors, founders, entrepreneurs, practitioners and other non-technical business leaders, Your AI Survival Guide is the ideal guide to help you deploy artificial intelligence in your business and increase your chances of success whether your business goal is top-line growth, increased productivity, or efficiency gains without having to add headcount as the go-to answer.