Your AI Survival Guide: Scraped Knees, Bruised Elbows, and Lessons Learned from Real-World AI Deployments - Hardcover

by Sol Rashidi (Author)

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.

Front Jacket

Artificial intelligence is one of the most promising new developments in technology since the advent of the Internet. But standing in the way of widespread business adoption is a lot of hype and a formidable learning curve and technical pre-requisites to understanding this exciting new technology. How is an everyday businessperson supposed to wrap their heads around such a complicated subject?

Your AI Survival Guide is an insightful and practical take on how to deploy AI in your organization and how to get executives to sign off on your most ambitious--and potentially profitable--AI strategies. Business executive and technologist Sol Rashidi explains exactly how real-world businesses, spanning ten different industries and sectors, have used AI to great effect. She also demonstrates a new and exciting way of thinking about and explaining AI, relying on her first-hand experience as an early adopter of the technology working with some of the world's leading artificial intelligence companies.

Rashidi demystifies the subject of AI in a way that non-technical business leaders and C-suite executives can better comprehend and apply the technology in their own companies. Mercifully free of "tech-speak," Your AI Survival Guide uncomplicates a complex topic with narratives and stories that anyone can understand.

An essential resource for executives, managers, directors, founders, entrepreneurs, and business leaders, this book will earn a prominent place in the libraries of technical and non-technical professionals alike. It's a can't-miss guide for everyone who hopes to understand one of the most exciting new technologies to come along since the world wide web.

Back Jacket

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.

Author Biography

With awards like "Top 100 AI Thought Leaders", "50 Most Powerful Women in Tech", "Top 75 Innovators", "Global 100 Power List", and many more, SOL RASHIDI is a technologist and business executive in the artificial intelligence and data space, who's helped launch some of the earliest business applications, including IBM Watson. She's a keynote speaker, presenter, and strategist who has held several C-suite positions at Fortune 500 companies.