Includes index.

Part one: when steel meets silicon --
The industrial past is prologue --
Digital upstarts vanquished consumer giants --
Industrial giants are striking back --
Four battlegrounds --
Part two: vectors of value --
The battle of brilliant machines --
The race for remarkable services results --
The showdown of smart systems --
The clash of custom solutions --
Part three: conquering the fusion frontier --
Fusion principles and practices.

Tech giants like Facebook, Amazon, and Google can collect real-time data from billions of users. For companies that design and manufacture physical products, that type of fluid, data-rich information used to be a pipe dream. Now, with the rise of cheap and powerful sensors, computing power, and artificial intelligence, things are changing-fast. In Fusion Strategy, world-renowned innovation guru Vijay Govindarajan and digital strategy expert Venkat Venkataraman offer a first-of-a-kind playbook that will help companies combine what they do best-create physical products-with what digitals do best-use algorithms and artificial intelligence to parse ginormous, interconnected datasets-to make strategic connections that would otherwise be impossible. The laws of competitive advantage are changing, rewarding those who have the most robust real-time insights rather than the most valuable assets. To compete in the new digital age, companies need to use real-time data to turbocharge their products, strategies, and customer relationships. Or else they'll fall on the wrong side of the next great digital divide. Fusion Strategy is the way forward.