Books on AI & Data Strategy

Practical guides for organizations navigating the AI transformation and building data-driven competitive advantage.

Staying Competitive: Harnessing the Power of Data and AI by John A. Eisenhauer Latest Release

Staying Competitive: Harnessing the Power of Data and AI

The bar for “competitive” just moved.

In 2025, fewer than 5% of enterprise applications embedded task-specific AI agents. By the end of 2026, Gartner projects that number will hit 40%. That is the bar for competitive being redrawn in less than eighteen months, and most leaders are still operating against last year’s playbook.

Staying Competitive is a clear-eyed roadmap for executives who refuse to let their organizations be the slow ones. Drawing on twenty-five years of Fortune 500 transformation work, it cuts through the hype, the doom, and the half-implemented pilots to lay out what actually works. Inside, you will learn how to:

  • Build the data foundations that make AI deployments scale beyond pilots
  • Diagnose where your organization sits on the AI-readiness curve
  • Lead a workforce through a transformation few leaders dare to name
  • Navigate the ethical and regulatory landscape across the EU and US
  • Avoid the costly mistakes that have turned AI rollouts into public lessons
“If you are not competing with AI, you are undoubtedly losing to someone who is.”

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Earlier Books

Co-authored with Steven B. Strout

The Elephant in the Room: Data by John A. Eisenhauer and Steven B. Strout

The Elephant in the Room: Data

What you need to know to best govern and manage your enterprise data

“The business owns the data.” It’s the rehearsed answer at every IT kickoff, and it’s the elephant nobody wants to address. This book tackles the question most organizations avoid: who really governs and manages enterprise data, and how to do it well.

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Heads Up! The Data Tsunami Survival Guide by John A. Eisenhauer and Steven B. Strout

Heads Up! The Data Tsunami Survival Guide

Data governance and data management

Smartphones, social media, and connected devices are driving data volume, complexity, and velocity up at an exponential pace. This survival guide lays out the changes, methodologies, and technologies enterprises need to govern and manage master, metadata, reference, transactional, and unstructured data, and to prepare for the tsunami ahead.

The Transformative Impact of Technological Disruption

A Perspective on AI

This in-depth article explores how AI is reshaping competitive dynamics across industries. Drawing on the frameworks of Clayton Christensen and Thomas Davenport, it examines the implications of AI-driven disruption and provides strategic guidance for organizations navigating this transformation.

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Originally published February 2025. Also available on the blog.

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