Reinventing Jobs

Reinventing JobsUnlock the future of work with 'Reinventing Jobs', a groundbreaking book by experts Ravin Jesuthasan and John Boudreau. This essential guide delves into how automation and artificial intelligence (AI) can transform your organization's workforce dynamics. As businesses navigate the complexities of integrating smart technologies, leaders are faced with pressing questions: How can we effectively implement automation? What roles should humans play

Unlock the future of work with 'Reinventing Jobs', a groundbreaking book by experts Ravin Jesuthasan and John Boudreau. This essential guide delves into how automation and artificial intelligence (AI) can transform your organization's workforce dynamics. As businesses navigate the complexities of integrating smart technologies, leaders are faced with pressing questions: How can we effectively implement automation? What roles should humans play alongside machines? This book addresses these challenges head-on, providing a fresh perspective that transcends the traditional 'humans versus machines' debate. Instead, Jesuthasan and Boudreau empower leaders to view automation as an opportunity to optimize human-automation combinations for maximum efficiency and productivity.

Drawing on innovative primary research, 'Reinventing Jobs' introduces a practical four-step framework: deconstruct, optimize, automate, and reconfigure. This structured approach equips organizations with the tools to redefine jobs and adapt to ever-changing technological landscapes. By reconstructing tasks into new combinations, businesses can enhance performance and achieve higher returns on investment.

Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781633694071
Format: Cloth over boards
Year: 2018
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press

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Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781633694071
Format: Cloth over boards
Year: 2018
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press


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Once the decision has been made to adopt automation and artificial intelligence technologies, leaders face difficult and stubborn questions about how to implement that decision: How, when, and where should we apply automation in our organizations? Is it a stark choice between humans versus machines? How do we stay on top of these technological trends as work and automation continue to evolve?

Work and human capital experts Ravin Jesuthasan and John Boudreau argue that leaders need a new set of tools to answer these daunting questions. Going beyond traditional concepts like a "job," Jesuthasan and Boudreau show leaders that automation calls for a reexamination of what a job really is and show how to determine variations of tasks within jobs and then reconstruct those elements into new and different combinations. Furthermore, transcending the endless debate about humans being replaced by machines, the authors show how smart leaders instead are optimizing human-automation combinations that are not only more efficient but generate higher returns on improved performance.

Based on groundbreaking primary research, this book provides an original, structured approach and a new set of tools for applying automation and artificial intelligence in your organization. Jesuthasan and Boudreau provide a practical four-step framework--deconstruct, optimize, automate, and reconfigure--through which you and others throughout your organization can collaborate to proactively and continuously "reconstruct" work and create optimal human-machine combinations.

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