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The AI Operations Playbook

A practical operator's guide to finding the first valuable AI workflows across departments, scoring readiness, and building a 90-day rollout that survives real business constraints.

EUR 47

Price

Online

Format

80+ pages

Pages

The AI Operations Playbook cover

10 department playbooks

90-day roadmap

Readiness scoring model

Who It Is For

Built for people making business decisions.

Business owners, operators, department leaders, and consultants who need a clear AI implementation path without building a full engineering team

Practical Use

Use the book as an operating manual for planning AI automation, selecting the right workflows, governing risk, measuring ROI, and moving from isolated pilots to a managed automation portfolio.

Business Outcomes

Score AI readiness before spending money

Prioritize the first pilots by business impact

Build a department rollout plan with owners, metrics, and review points

Reader Signal

Built for operators who need more than AI hype.

The book is positioned for executives and implementation teams who need a practical path from pilot activity to managed automation capability.

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The useful part is the operating model. It does not sell AI as a tool purchase; it shows how to make ownership, governance, and ROI clear enough for leadership to act.

COO, mid-market services firm

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The value map and stage-gate model make the book practical. It gives teams a way to decide what should be automated first and what should be killed before it wastes budget.

Transformation lead, B2B operations

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This reads like a field manual for executives. The strongest sections are governance, operations, and measurement because they address what usually breaks after the demo.

CIO advisor, enterprise AI programs

Inside the Website Reader

Chapter preview.

80+ pages
01

Why AI Is a Business Problem, Not a Tech Problem

Breaks the topic into practical department workflows, owners, metrics, and rollout considerations.

02

The AI Readiness Framework

Breaks the topic into practical department workflows, owners, metrics, and rollout considerations.

03

AI for Sales

Identifies the sales workflows where AI can improve research, follow-up, proposals, pipeline quality, and forecasting.

04

AI for Marketing

Shows how AI changes content, segmentation, campaign testing, and conversion workflows when tied to a real strategy.

05

AI for Finance and Operations

Focuses on close, forecasting, reporting, reconciliation, and the finance workflows where accuracy and controls matter.

06

AI for Customer Success

Covers churn signals, customer health, onboarding, renewal risk, expansion opportunities, and account intelligence.

07

AI for Executive Leadership

Breaks the topic into practical department workflows, owners, metrics, and rollout considerations.

08

AI for Legal, HR, and Compliance

Defines the controls, review points, ownership, and evidence needed to use AI without creating unmanaged exposure.

09

Your 90-Day AI Roadmap

Breaks the topic into practical department workflows, owners, metrics, and rollout considerations.

10

The Future: 2026-2030

Separates durable operating principles from short-term AI hype so the system can evolve as technology changes.

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Start with the operating model before another AI pilot.

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