The Mathematical Corporation: Where Machine Intelligence and Human Ingenuity Achieve the Impossible
The most powerful weapon in business today is the alliance between the mathematical smarts of machines and the imaginative human intellect of great leaders. Together they make the mathematical corporation, the business model of the future.

We are at a once-in-a-decade breaking point similar to the quality revolution of the 1980s and the dawn of the internet age in the 1990s: leaders must transform how they run their organizations, or competitors will bring them crashing to earth — often overnight.

Mathematical corporations — the organizations that will master the future — will outcompete high-flying rivals by merging the best of human ingenuity with machine intelligence. While smart machines are weapon number one for organizations, leaders are still the drivers of breakthroughs. Only they can ask crucial questions to capitalize on business opportunities newly discovered in oceans of data.

This dynamic combination will make possible the fulfillment of missions that once seemed out of reach, even impossible to attain. Josh Sullivan and Angela Zutavern's extraordinary examples include the entrepreneur who upended preventive health care, the oceanographer who transformed fisheries management, and the pharmaceutical company that used algorithm-driven optimization to boost vaccine yields.

Together they offer a profoundly optimistic vision for a dazzling new phase in business, and a playbook for how smart companies can manage the essential combination of human and machine.
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The Mathematical Corporation: Where Machine Intelligence and Human Ingenuity Achieve the Impossible
The most powerful weapon in business today is the alliance between the mathematical smarts of machines and the imaginative human intellect of great leaders. Together they make the mathematical corporation, the business model of the future.

We are at a once-in-a-decade breaking point similar to the quality revolution of the 1980s and the dawn of the internet age in the 1990s: leaders must transform how they run their organizations, or competitors will bring them crashing to earth — often overnight.

Mathematical corporations — the organizations that will master the future — will outcompete high-flying rivals by merging the best of human ingenuity with machine intelligence. While smart machines are weapon number one for organizations, leaders are still the drivers of breakthroughs. Only they can ask crucial questions to capitalize on business opportunities newly discovered in oceans of data.

This dynamic combination will make possible the fulfillment of missions that once seemed out of reach, even impossible to attain. Josh Sullivan and Angela Zutavern's extraordinary examples include the entrepreneur who upended preventive health care, the oceanographer who transformed fisheries management, and the pharmaceutical company that used algorithm-driven optimization to boost vaccine yields.

Together they offer a profoundly optimistic vision for a dazzling new phase in business, and a playbook for how smart companies can manage the essential combination of human and machine.
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The Mathematical Corporation: Where Machine Intelligence and Human Ingenuity Achieve the Impossible

The Mathematical Corporation: Where Machine Intelligence and Human Ingenuity Achieve the Impossible

The Mathematical Corporation: Where Machine Intelligence and Human Ingenuity Achieve the Impossible

The Mathematical Corporation: Where Machine Intelligence and Human Ingenuity Achieve the Impossible

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Overview

The most powerful weapon in business today is the alliance between the mathematical smarts of machines and the imaginative human intellect of great leaders. Together they make the mathematical corporation, the business model of the future.

We are at a once-in-a-decade breaking point similar to the quality revolution of the 1980s and the dawn of the internet age in the 1990s: leaders must transform how they run their organizations, or competitors will bring them crashing to earth — often overnight.

Mathematical corporations — the organizations that will master the future — will outcompete high-flying rivals by merging the best of human ingenuity with machine intelligence. While smart machines are weapon number one for organizations, leaders are still the drivers of breakthroughs. Only they can ask crucial questions to capitalize on business opportunities newly discovered in oceans of data.

This dynamic combination will make possible the fulfillment of missions that once seemed out of reach, even impossible to attain. Josh Sullivan and Angela Zutavern's extraordinary examples include the entrepreneur who upended preventive health care, the oceanographer who transformed fisheries management, and the pharmaceutical company that used algorithm-driven optimization to boost vaccine yields.

Together they offer a profoundly optimistic vision for a dazzling new phase in business, and a playbook for how smart companies can manage the essential combination of human and machine.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781610397889
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Publication date: 06/06/2017
Pages: 304
Sales rank: 408,793
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Dr. Josh Sullivan is senior vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton and one of the world's leading experts in data science and machine intelligence.

Angela Zutavern is vice president of Booz Allen Hamilton and pioneered the application of machine intelligence to leadership and strategy.

Together, they're radically transforming how Fortune 500 companies, nonprofits, and major government agencies perform by helping leaders shatter long-held constraints and reveal hidden truths about their organizations.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Big Mind of the Mathematical Corporation 1

1 The Hidden World: Mastering the Untold Details 17

2 The Extraordinary Alliance: Merging Digital and Gray Matter 43

3 Impossible Questions: You Thought You Had Constraints. You Don't 77

4 Impossible Technology: Not Your Father's Hot Machine 103

5 Impossible Strategy: Birthing the New Big Thing 135

6 Spreading the Power: Time to Make It Real 161

7 Good, Bad, Breaking Out: Ethical Handling of Impossible Strategies 189

8 Impossible Solutions: Answering Society's Biggest Questions 223

Afterword: Talking Counterintuitive 251

Acknowledgments 257

Notes 261

Index 279

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