The Competitive Enterprise in the Intelligent Age: Mastering Strategy, Speed, and Survival
What if your biggest competitor isn’t faster, cheaper, or bigger, but smarter ?
What if it’s already using intelligence to think, decide, and act faster than your organization can respond ?
The shift to the Intelligent Age is fundamentally changing how companies compete. Advantage is no longer defined by digital transformation or scale but by how deeply intelligence is embedded into every decision, workflow, and operating model.
The Competitive Enterprise in the Intelligent Age is a practical leadership playbook for building organizations that can compete in that reality.
Inside, you will learn how to :
- Redefine competitive advantage in the Intelligent Age by identifying where intelligence creates real business value.
- Pinpoint and redesign high-impact workflows to improve speed, efficiency, and decision quality.
- Expand AI from isolated pilots into enterprise-wide capability and measurable business impact.
- Build human–machine operating models that improve how decisions are made and executed.
- Create an organization that adapts continuously through aligned leadership, culture, and talent systems.
- Turn governance, risk, and compliance into enablers of innovation rather than barriers.
- Leverage ecosystems and partnerships to accelerate capability, speed, and growth.
Drawing on real-world enterprise examples and executive-level insights, this book shows how leading organizations move beyond isolated AI experiments to redesign how the entire business operates. The result is an enterprise that can sense change faster, decide better, execute consistently across functions, and continuously learn.
It connects strategy to execution across operating models, customer experience, data, technology, talent, governance, and ecosystems, making transformation measurable rather than theoretical.
Written in a clear, business-focused style, the book avoids technical jargon and academic abstraction, focusing on practical, actionable guidance for leaders.
The core message is simple: most enterprises are still optimized for the digital era, while competition has already moved into the Intelligent Age.
Organizations that understand and act on this shift early will define the next decade. Those that do not risk losing relevance faster than expected.
Professor Klaus Schwab (1938, Ravensburg, Germany) is the Founder of the World Economic Forum.
In 1971, he published Modern Enterprise Management in Mechanical Engineering. He argues in that book that a company must serve not only shareholders but all stakeholders to achieve long-term growth and prosperity. To promote the stakeholder concept, he founded the World Economic Forum the same year. Professor Schwab holds doctorates in Economics (University of Fribourg) and in Engineering (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) and obtained a master’s degree in Public Administration (MPA) from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
In 1972, in addition to his leadership role at the Forum, he became a professor at the University of Geneva. He has received numerous international and national honors, including 20 honorary doctorates. His books include The Fourth Industrial Revolution (2016), a worldwide bestseller translated into 30 languages, Shaping the Future of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (2018), The Great Reset (2020), and Stakeholder Capitalism (2021).
- Publication date : June 30, 2026
- Author : Klaus Schwab
- Publisher : Schwab Academy
- Language : English
- Print length : 156 pages
- Format : Kindle, Hardcover, Paperback, Audio
- ISBN-13 : 978-2940857012