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From PPT, Trials to Actual Global Profits: Hard Lessons in Scaling Digital Transformation and AI Adoption in International Companies

From PPT, Trials to Actual Global Profits: Hard Lessons in Scaling Digital Transformation and AI Adoption in International Companies

Sunn, Stephan S.

Paperback

Business GeneralManagementMarketing

ISBN13: 9798253777701
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 26 2026
Pages: 60
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.12 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This book solves a central paradox of modern business: artificial intelligence scales globally, but the work it aims to optimize is stubbornly local. The core thesis of the book is that it is not failing algorithms, but rather successful pilots that fail to scale to operations, that fill the graveyard of failed AI initiatives. The book uniquely frames the problem of adoption not as a technical or marketing challenge, but as a problem of organizational design and human psychology. The core insight is that you can't simply dump a global technology into a series of local contexts, each with different professional identities, cultural fears, and existing workflows, and expect it to take hold.

The book differentiates itself from typical change management advice by providing a strategic framework for systemic redesign. It develops important concepts such as the ARC of Value (Accelerate, Replace, Create) to help leaders sort between optimizing the present and inventing the future, and reinvents the employee-employer social contract to better match accountability with the new reality of shared control with machines. It emphasizes that scaling AI requires an architecture of confidence, transparent policies, data governance, and peer-based champion ecosystems, to overcome fear and resistance with trust and grassroots adoption.

Today, in a world where technology is commoditized, the only lasting competitive advantage is the ability to unlock human potential in concert with AI. For students and young professionals, this book is must-reading because it redefines their relationship with AI as one not of replacement, but of management, where the things they will be hired to do are judgment, strategy, and the one capability that will always remain uniquely human, the ability to find meaning in data. It tells them that their future success depends less on learning to code and more on learning the social and human skills required to make global technology function in a diverse array of local environments.

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