Fusion Strategy: How Real-Time Data and AI Will Power the Industrial Future

Vijay Govindarajan · Venkat Venkatraman

Apr 2024 · Gildan Media · Narrated by Tom Parks

About this audiobook

Tech giants like Facebook, Amazon, and Google can collect real-time data from billions of users. For companies that design and manufacture physical products, that type of fluid, data-rich information used to be a pipe dream. Now, with the rise of cheap and powerful sensors, supercomputing, and artificial intelligence, things are changing-fast. In Fusion Strategy, world-renowned innovation guru Vijay Govindarajan and digital strategy expert Venkat Venkataraman offer a first-of-its-kind playbook that will help industrial companies combine what they do best-create physical products-with what digitals do best-use algorithms and AI to parse expansive, interconnected datasets-to make strategic connections that would otherwise be impossible. The laws of competitive advantage are changing, rewarding those who have the most robust, data-driven insights rather than the most valuable assets. To compete in the new digital age, companies need to use real-time data to turbocharge their products, strategies, and customer relationships. Those that don't risk falling on the wrong side of the next great digital divide. Fusion Strategy is the way forward.

About the author

Vijay Govindarajan is widely regarded as one of the world's leading experts on strategy and innovation. He is the Coxe Distinguished Professor at Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and a former Marvin Bower Fellow at Harvard Business School. His books include Reverse Innovation and The Three-Box Solution.

Venkat Venkatraman is the David J. McGrath Jr. Professor in Information Systems at the Questrom School of Business, Boston University. He is considered one of the foremost authorities on how companies develop strategies to win with digital technologies.

Since recording his first book for the Kansas Audio Reader Network in 1985, Tom Parks has enjoyed giving voice to stories. He has been nominated for Audie Awards and has received several AudioFile Earphones Awards, and reviewers have described his performances as "conversational," "energetic," and "sincere."