What’s the best article or book that will show me how to include AI in my business?
That was the question I asked Perplexity.ai this morning and here’s the answer I got
The single best starting point for most business leaders right now is “The AI Advantage: How to Put the Artificial Intelligence Revolution to Work” by Thomas H. Davenport; it is explicitly written to show managers how to identify use cases and implement AI in existing organizations. For a shorter, highly practical “do this first” guide, pair it with a recent step‑by‑step AI implementation article targeted at businesses, such as Upwork’s “A Practical Guide to AI Implementation for Business Leaders.”
Best book to start with
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The AI Advantage (Thomas H. Davenport)
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Focuses on where AI actually creates business value, with many concrete examples of deployment in real companies.
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Walks through selecting use cases, organizing data, building a portfolio of AI projects, and managing change, which is exactly what most owners/executives need to operationalize AI rather than just understand the technology.
- If you only read one book to help you implement AI in your existing business, this is the most directly applicable, execution‑oriented option.
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- To buy it, click here.
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Best short article / playbook
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“A Practical Guide to AI Implementation for Business Leaders” (Upwork)
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Lays out a phased roadmap: set business goals for AI, assess readiness (data, infrastructure, culture), prioritize high‑impact use cases, then integrate and deploy into real workflows.
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Emphasizes avoiding “toy pilots” by tying AI to specific processes like routing customer tickets, generating recommendations, or automating invoice processing, which makes it very actionable as a first implementation checklist.
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If you prefer something even more tactical for small or mid‑sized businesses, you could also skim “Implement AI in Small Business: A Practical Guide,” which focuses on concrete areas like customer service, marketing, and operations and how to get started cheaply with off‑the‑shelf tools.
An AI Apology from NYSEG
This morning an idiot driver hit a NYSEG electricity pole and actually broke it in half.
Later, NYSEG called me to apologize for my electricity outage.
On my voice mail, Apple AI translated the company’s name to “nice egg” —
Which is accurate.
Sort of funny
TACO rides again
This is NASDAQ Composite Index over the last five days — covering up to 1:50 PM EST when I posted this.
Good news
The Australian Tennis Open is playing. And there’s some really good tennis.
My injured calf muscle is recovering. I figure I’ll be back playing next week.
Google, Amazon META, Nvidia and Apple are bouncing today. And so are gold, silver and uranium, but not copper.
Go figure.
TACO stands for Trump Always Chickens Out.
See you tomorrow. Harry Newton
