Agentic AI by Sector: Deep-Dive Transformation Playbooks for Financial Services, Healthcare, Retail, and Manufacturing - An APAC Executive Edition (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798257882142)

Most agentic AI playbooks are written for any enterprise. This one is written for yours.

Agentic AI by Sector is the definitive APAC executive guide for senior leaders in financial services, healthcare, retail, and manufacturing who are done with universal frameworks and ready for the precise, sector-specific strategy their deployment actually requires. It answers the question every COO, CDO, and sector head is now asking: not whether to deploy agentic AI, but exactly how - given their regulatory ceiling, their data architecture, their talent landscape, and the competitive clock that is already running.

What makes this book different from every AI strategy book you have already read:

It is sector-specific, not sector-adjacent. Each sector chapter delivers a complete Sector Transformation Blueprint: the highest-value use cases ranked by APAC deployment evidence, the failure modes that have killed programmes identical to yours, the regulatory compliance path for your market, and a 90-Day Blueprint calibrated to your industry's actual data infrastructure and governance constraints.

It is APAC-first, not APAC-adapted. The regulatory defaults are not GDPR. The benchmark data is not from North American pilots. This book is grounded in the IMDA Model AI Governance Framework for Agentic AI - the world's first, published January 2026 - MAS FEAT, AIHGle 2.0, HKMA Fintech 2030, APRA CPS 230, Japan's AI Promotion Act, and Australia's AI6 Framework. If you are deploying in Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, or Japan, this is the map of your territory.

It closes the pilot-to-production gap. Research shows 43% of health system executives are piloting agentic AI. Only 3% have deployed agents in live clinical workflows. The same pattern plays out across every sector in this book. The gap is not a technology problem. It is a sequencing problem, a governance problem, and a sector-context problem. Every chapter is engineered to close it.

Inside: the Four Dimensions of Sector Context framework and Sector Readiness Diagnostic; deep-dive playbooks for financial services, healthcare, retail, and manufacturing; market-specific regulatory engagement paths for Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, and Japan; and a 12-month roadmap from first production deployment to enterprise agentic operating model.

This book is for C-suite executives - COO, CDO, CTO, or sector head - operating in or across Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, or Japan. You have read the universal AI playbooks. You understand the frameworks. What you need now is the sector-specific, market-specific intelligence to translate those frameworks into a deployment that works in your regulatory environment, on your data infrastructure, against your competitors.

Book 3 of the Agentic AI Leadership Series. Builds directly on Book 2: The Enterprise Playbook. Can be read standalone. Rewards reading in sequence.

The compounding advantage is real. The window is open. The map is in your hands.