The book answers one core question: how can AI create business value?
Its central idea is the cyber-physical interplay between intelligent data flows and business value streams — the digital space drives optimization of physical operations through an OODA loop; cybernetic circular causality captures the dynamic evolution of business systems; and the algorithmic route combines first-principles industrial models with large language models, gaining both interpretability and generalization.
The L1–L4 Digitalization Framework
- L1 Real-time visibility — what is happening now?
- L2 Rapid root-cause — why did it happen?
- L3 Predictive prevention — what will happen?
- L4 Algorithmic decision & execution — what should be done, decided and executed by algorithms?
