What to do When Machines do Everything by authors Ben Pring, Malcolm Frank, and Paul Roehrig is a book about exactly what its title says. Written in 2017, the authors spent three years prior to publication conversing with the top minds from companies and universities in order to make greater sense of the imminent technological change. To summarize their findings, they offer their personal roadmap to the future with their acronym, AHEAD.
The concept of digital transformation is rapidly becoming a part of our society and not only changing the way we live and think, but changing the way we do business. On a macro scale, digital transformation describes the changes in society revolving around technology and its everyday uses. Successful and efficient leadership in this new digital era must be one that understands the push towards absolute computerization and adapts their teams’ methods to ensure the vision is still in sight and can be reasonably obtained.
No Ordinary Disruption by Richard Dobbs, James Manyika, and Jonathan Woetzel explores four global forces that are “breaking all the trends”. The authors explain how the forces of emerging markets, accelerating technological impact, an aging world population, and globalization will shape our modern economy, providing opportunity for some and great risk for others.
What To Do When Machines Do Everything, written by authors Malcolm Frank, Paul Roehrig, and Ben Pring, is a pragmatic approach to the way that digital transformation, automation, and artificial intelligence will possibly impact the fast approaching reality, known as the future. They give way to many different possibilities that could be foreseen happening and how these different possibilities will impact the workforce of tomorrow. Resiliency is a very prevalent topic within the book as they encourage readers to take action as soon as possible, for this will be the greatest chance the have to succeed.