AI Without Illusions

A Manager's Field Guide to Implementing AI in the Organization

von Dimitar Chizmarov

168 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Most AI projects fail. Not for the reasons you've been told.About 95% of enterprise AI pilots deliver no measurable impact on the bottom line, despite tens of billions spent. The cause is almost never the technology. It is a series of comfortable management illusions that sound like good judgment right up until the budget arrives.AI Without Illusions is the field guide for the manager who has to make these decisions and answer for them - not the technologist, and not the futurist. It refuses both the hype ("AI changes everything") and the cynicism ("AI is a bubble"), and does something more useful: it gives you the arithmetic, the criteria, and the working tools to implement AI without setting money on fire.What's inside- The Loaded-Cost Test - what AI actually costs once you price the human reviewer, the rework, and a vendor price increase. Most business cases compare tokens to salaries and stop there.- A ten-criteria scoring matrix for project feasibility, and a four-point organizational readiness check - so you know before you build, not after.- A gated decision path - cloud APIs, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), fine-tuning, self-hosting - and the volume and sensitivity thresholds that justify each step.- Local AI on every desk - the sanctioned answer to shadow AI, with three hardware tiers and what each realistically runs.- Governance and risk - a working risk register, EU AI Act obligations, and the change management that decides whether a pilot survives contact with an organization.- A 90-day roadmap, plus copy-ready worksheets and budget models.Worked examples run a composite mid-size insurer through the entire decision chain - candidate selection, readiness scoring, infrastructure, and the people affected - because the decisions compound, and what you choose in step one constrains step four.No illusions. Just the disciplines that survive contact with a budget.For managers, directors, and executives who have been told to "do something with AI" and intend to do it without the wishful thinking. No prior technical depth assumed.This paperback edition is printed in black and white. A full-colour hardcover edition is also available.

• ISBN: 9798188660475
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 23.07.2026
• Größe: 254 x 178 mm
• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp