Radically Human: How New Technology Is Transforming Business and Shaping Our Future

Technology  advances are making tech more . . . human. This changes everything you  thought you knew about innovation and strategy.

In their groundbreaking book, Human + Machine,  Accenture technology leaders Paul R. Daugherty and H. James Wilson  showed how leading organizations use the power of human-machine  collaboration to transform their processes and their bottom lines. Now,  as new AI powered technologies like the metaverse, natural language  processing, and digital twins begin to rapidly impact both life and  work, those companies and other pioneers across industries are tipping  the balance even more strikingly toward the human side with  technology-led strategy that is reshaping the very nature of innovation.

In Radically Human,  Daugherty and Wilson show this profound shift, fast-forwarded by the  pandemic, toward more human—and more humane—technology. Artificial  intelligence is becoming less artificial and more intelligent. Instead  of data-hungry approaches to AI, innovators are pursuing data-efficient  approaches that enable machines to learn as humans do. Instead of  replacing workers with machines, they're unleashing human expertise to  create human-centered AI. In place of lumbering legacy IT systems,  they're building cloud-first IT architectures able to continuously adapt  to a world of billions of connected devices. And they're pursuing  strategies that will take their place alongside classic, winning  business formulas like disruptive innovation.

These  against-the-grain approaches to the basic building blocks of  business—Intelligence, Data, Expertise, Architecture, and Strategy  (IDEAS)—are transforming competition. Industrial giants and startups  alike are drawing on this radically human IDEAS framework to create new  business models, optimize post-pandemic approaches to work and talent,  rebuild trust with their stakeholders, and show the way toward a  sustainable future.

With compelling insights and fresh  examples from a variety of industries, Radically Human will forever  change the way you think about, practice, and win with innovation.