AI Agents at Work by Scott Burk
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From strategy to sprint, AI Agents at Work shows you how enterprises move beyond demos to durable outcomes: an end-to-end blueprint starting from planning and readiness, progressing to agentic architecture patterns, and finally to the orchestration of multi-agent systems (MAS). Supercharge your organization with a practical, battle-tested playbook for deploying agentic AI, which are multi-agent systems that boost ROI, harden compliance, and turn everyday workflows into resilient, data-driven automation. Learn from actual case studies spanning finance, healthcare, retail, supply chain, and cybersecurity, along with executive decision trees and implementation checklists from actual production deployments. The authors map the full agentic stack: agent taxonomy (reactive, deliberative, utility-based, learning, and generative), reasoning frameworks (BDI, chain-of-thought, and optimization), and integration patterns for agent-to-system and agent-to-agent coordination.