Book contents
- The Poverty of Strategy
- The Poverty of Strategy
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Table
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Strategy as the Basic Question of Organization?
- Part I Authenticity
- Part II The Three Epochs of Strategy
- 4 Technē: Creating Organizational Forms from the Earth
- 5 Technology, Machinery and Giving Over to the General in Strategic Practice
- 6 Strategy as World Picture
- 7 Who or What Is Running Strategy?
- 8 Machine Intelligence and the Rhythms of Predictability
- 9 Strategy No Longer Thinks in Terms of Human Beings
- Part III The Open
- Index
8 - Machine Intelligence and the Rhythms of Predictability
from Part II - The Three Epochs of Strategy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 July 2023
- The Poverty of Strategy
- The Poverty of Strategy
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Table
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Strategy as the Basic Question of Organization?
- Part I Authenticity
- Part II The Three Epochs of Strategy
- 4 Technē: Creating Organizational Forms from the Earth
- 5 Technology, Machinery and Giving Over to the General in Strategic Practice
- 6 Strategy as World Picture
- 7 Who or What Is Running Strategy?
- 8 Machine Intelligence and the Rhythms of Predictability
- 9 Strategy No Longer Thinks in Terms of Human Beings
- Part III The Open
- Index
Summary
Chapter 8 broaches our understanding of communication systems and their intimacy with strategic practice. Beginning with the general (strategist) Napoleon’s forms of communication–technological warfare and the subsequent reliance on innovation in communication devices, especially those of coding and decoding communications in military conflicts, we consider the workings and implications of electronic, digital computing systems for strategy. Via Alan Turing’s Imitation Game, we introduce the debate on the nature of intelligence, consciousness and conscience (self-awareness), setting the scene for an elaboration on the development from cybernetics to contemporary machine-learning algorithms in the subsequent chapter.
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- The Poverty of StrategyOrganization in the Shadows of Technology, pp. 244 - 275Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023