The AI Strategy Success Playbook

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Book Content

Part One: Foundations of AI in Business Strategy

0. Start Here

1. I Spy AI with my Little I

2. How do Businesses Decide What (IT) to Pursue?

Part Two: Conceptualizing AI Solutions for Business Impact

3. What does this Rob do?

4. Who Wants What?

Part Three: Risk and Evaluation Strategies for AI Initiatives

5. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

6. Inside this Blackbox, What Does Success Look Like?

Part Four: Architecting and Deploying AI Solutions

7. This is my Rubik’s Cube

8. This MVP Doesn’t Dunk

9. Duct Tape that Floats

Part Five: AI Transformation and Strategic Change Management

10. Now That We Found (Tool) What Are We Gonna Do?

11. Ready? Go! Get Set

Part Six: Phrontiers and Filosophy

12. Why, Mr. Anderson? Why? Why do you persist?

13. Driverless Corporations and Automated Governments

14. I’m Wishing on a Star

Acknowledgements and Errata

IS 4495 Schedule, Upcoming Summer 2026 [Japan]

Basic Labs

Lab A: AI Communities

Lab B: Process Mapping

Lab C: Stakeholder Analysis

Lab D: Risk Assessment

Lab E: Human in the Loop Evaluation

Lab F: Working with an LLM Locally

Lab G: Cloud-Based Access

Lab H: Smart Prompting

Lab I: Vibe Coding an App

Lab J: Model Building & Management

Lab K: Version Control with Git

Lab L: Developing an AI Readiness Assessment

Lab M: FinOps & Cost Estimation

Lab N: Agentic AI

Case Studies

I. Netflix

II. Robo-Advisors

III. AI Backlash

IV. AI in Medicine

V. AI Automation in Retail

VI. AI Automation in the Supply Chain

VII. AI in the Developing World

VIII. AI & The Future of Work

IX. AI in Recruiting

X. Regulating the Future

XI. Consulting Companies and AI

Advanced Resources

Software and Services

Advanced Labs (Python)

[Reference] AI Automation in [*]

Inquiries, Comments and Suggestions

Author: David Agogo PhD FRSA Contact: [email protected]

SFEBB 6161 Operations and Information Systems Department David Eccles School of Business University of Utah

Available for Consulting as: Carter Consulting Ltd www.carterltd.com

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