Steering the AI Wheel:

"LLMs are the engine, Prompts are the steering wheel"

This could be the best $18.00investment you make this year.

From Prompting to Agentic AI: Turning AI into Action

AI is moving fast. For many operational managers, the challenge is no longer whether AI matters—it is knowing what to learn, what to trust, where to start, and how to keep up.

Steering the AI Wheel cuts through that uncertainty.

Instead of forcing you to navigate a confusing landscape of AI terminology, technologies and competing opinions, this book brings the essential knowledge together in one practical, easy-to-understand guide.

It takes you from the fundamentals of AI and prompt engineering through AI-powered workflows, decision-making, Agentic AI and Autonomous AI, showing how these capabilities fit together and where they can be applied in operational business.

The objective is not to turn you into an AI specialist. It is to give you the confidence and understanding to engage with AI intelligently, recognise its possibilities and limitations, and identify how it can transform the way work is performed.

You don't need to master everything that AI can do.

You need to understand enough to know what is possible, what is relevant, and what comes next.

One book. One clear pathway. A head start in the AI-powered workplace.

Stop trying to catch up with AI. Leapfrog ahead.

This book takes you from prompting AI to designing AI-powered workflows that can analyse information, use business tools, coordinate multiple steps and execute tasks.

You will discover how to design workflows and determine agentic from autonomous.

You will also explore the critical role of Human-in-the-Loop (HITL). Agentic AI can operate through a workflow while bringing humans into key decision points—particularly where risk, compliance, judgement or accountability matters. At the other end of the spectrum, autonomous systems can execute the entire workflow and act on the outcome within predefined guardrails, policies, permissions and controls.

The key insight is that this is not AI magic or smoke and mirrors. Behind every effective AI workflow are human-designed processes, carefully selected tools, business rules, data sources and governance.

For procurement and supply chain professionals, this represents a fundamental shift:

From asking AI for answers → to directing AI to accomplish outcomes.

The opportunity is not simply to automate today's processes. It is to redesign how work gets done—using AI to augment human expertise, accelerate decisions and create more intelligent, responsive and resilient supply chains.

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Who Is This Book Is For?

Procurement professionals

Supply chain managers

Operational leaders

Business analysts

Innovation teams

Professionals responsible for AI adoption and governance

Managers who need practical AI understanding — not technical jargon.

What Makes This Book Different??

Most AI books teach isolated tools.
This book teaches you how to think, lead, and implement.

  • You will learn how to:

    • Communicate AI initiatives confidently to senior management and executives

    • Build a practical mental model for AI adoption inside your business

    • Use LLMs and augmented AI to improve procurement and supply chain operations

    • Create prompts that produce reliable, repeatable business outcomes

    • Apply advanced techniques including meta-prompting, RAG/RAP, and multimodal prompting

    • Analyse and clean messy operational data into boardroom-ready insights

    • Reduce AI risks through hallucination control, governance, security awareness, and POPI compliance

    • Save, optimise, and reuse prompts to improve operational efficiency over time

    • Know the difference between Prompts, Workflows, Agentic and Automation

    • Discover the Human-in-the-loop

    • Understand when to use APIs, webhooks, or automation tools to connect systems effectively

    • Strengthen supplier negotiations, strategic planning, and risk evaluation using AI-enhanced workflows

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