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The Adaptive Organization by Patrick Mcgarry

Sure. The Bowkerserves a different purpose than the back cover. It needs to be more detailed and informational since it’s what booksellers, librarians, and online retailers use for discovery. Up to 350 words, plain text, no markup. Here’s a version that expands on our back cover copy:Organizations across every sector face the same challenge: turning data and artificial intelligence ambition into operational reality. Leaders declare themselves “data-driven” while decisions still rely on intuition. Boards approve AI initiatives while the underlying data remains fragmented and ungoverned. Transformation programs launch with fanfare but stall when they encounter legacy systems, siloed teams, and cultures resistant to change.The Adaptive Organization: Leading Change in the AI Era is written for the leaders responsible for closing that gap. Chief Data Officers, Chief Analytics Officers, Chief AI Officers, technology executives, and mission operators will find a comprehensive guide to building organizational readiness for data and AI transformation in government, defense, healthcare, financial services, and commercial enterprise settings.At the center of the book is the CATALOG Framework, a model built around seven interdependent domains: Culture and Talent, Analytics and AI, Technology and Architecture, Alignment, Leadership and Governance, Operations and Delivery, and Growth and Measurement. McGarry argues that lasting transformation is not a technology problem to be solved through software purchases and pilot programs. It is a human challenge requiring intentional organizational design, embedded governance, and leadership that bridges the technical and the strategic.The book covers the full lifecycle of data and AI leadership, from understanding the strategic landscape through building capabilities and deploying them at scale. Topics include organizational design and change leadership, data governance and policy alignment, technology modernization and architecture, AI and analytics strategy, metrics and mission integration, innovation ecosystems, and deployment playbooks with practical tools for immediate use.Throughout, the book draws on real examples and confronts uncomfortable truths about why transformation efforts fail and what separates the organizations that succeed. This is not a technical manual. It is a practitioner’s guide to the harder problems of readiness, resistance, sequencing, and sustained momentum.