Competing in the Age of AI: Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World

Competing in the Age of AI: Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World by Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani is a landmark work from two of Harvard Business School's foremost authorities on digital strategy and technology management. This book makes a powerful and carefully argued case that artificial intelligence is not merely a new tool for existing businesses — it is fundamentally restructuring the nature of the firm itself, and the rules of competition along with it.

Iansiti and Lakhani show how AI-powered companies like Amazon, Ant Financial, Alibaba, and Google operate in ways that are qualitatively different from traditional businesses: their scale is unlimited by human capacity, their scope can extend across industries at near-zero marginal cost, and their ability to learn and improve continuously is built into their core operating model. The result is not just superior efficiency but an entirely new competitive dynamic that traditional firms are poorly equipped to navigate.

The book provides a rigorous strategic framework — grounded in extensive original research — for how established companies can respond: how to reimagine operations, how to build the AI factory, how to navigate the ethical and regulatory dimensions, and how to lead organisations through genuinely transformational change. Scholarly but accessible, visionary but practical, Competing in the Age of AI is the most important strategy book of the current era for any serious business leader.

Product Details

Author: Marco Iansiti & Karim R. Lakhani
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
Dimensions: Approx. 23 × 15 × 2 cm
Weight: Approx. 0.35 kg
Delivery Time: 3–5 Business Days