Transform: Delivering AI transformation when most fail

By Sotiris Spyrou

Most AI transformations fail. Not on the technology - on everything around it.

MD Anderson spent a reported $62 million on IBM's Watson and shelved it. Zillow let an algorithm price homes, then wrote down more than half a billion dollars and cut a quarter of its staff. The technology worked. The transformation did not.

If you are accountable for an AI initiative, this is the book that explains why most fail, and how the few that succeed actually do it.

TRANSFORM is a nine-step framework for delivering AI transformation that aims at business results, not impressive demonstrations. It is written for the executive who has to make the call on Tuesday and answer for it at the next board meeting, not for the data-science team.

Inside:

The patterns that sink most AI programmes, and how to spot yours earlyThe nine steps, from setting the target to scaling what works (the TRANSFORM framework)How to lead the change through your organisation, where most transformations actually dieThe metrics that prove business value, not just technical activityA 90-day plan you can start on Monday

Written by Sotiris Spyrou, who has spent more than twenty-five years taking complex systems apart to find out how they really work. Part of the Executive AI Mastery series, alongside Ethical AI and AI Moats.

The technology is the easy part. This is the rest.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H59D1RXL
• ISBN13: 9798181570283
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"