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The Adaptive Enterprise

A Practical Playbook for AI-Led Transformation

AI is not a technology problem. It is a governance, culture, and leadership problem. And most organizations are moving too slowly.

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About the book

This is not a book about what AI is. It is a book about what to do with it.

The Adaptive Enterprise is a field guide for technology leaders and the executives who work alongside them: the CEOs, CFOs, COOs, and board members who must fund, govern, and answer for AI transformation across the enterprise. It covers the frameworks, the governance models, the access architecture, and the organizational structures that separate AI programs that deliver from those that generate activity without outcomes.

Built from thirty years of enterprise technology experience and the hard-won lessons of building complete AI-driven systems from scratch. Not sprinting barefoot. Speed walking in comfortable shoes.

The question is no longer whether your organization will be transformed by AI. It is whether you will be the one driving the transformation, or managing the consequences of someone else's.

ISBN 9798182172165

About the author

Michael MacDonald has spent thirty years at the intersection of enterprise technology and business transformation, from early IP networking and AI research to leading technology programs across multiple industries and markets. He has built systems at enterprise scale and businesses from scratch. He has seen AI transformation from both ends of the spectrum.

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