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About the Book
The Cybernetic Enterprise: How to Build a Future-Ready Organization is your comprehensive operating system for navigating the next era of business transformation. If your company has adopted Agile and DevOps but still struggles to adapt at scale, fast teams, slow enterprise, this book is for you.
This is not another Agile, DevOps, or AI playbook in isolation. Instead, it introduces a unified cybernetic operating model, one designed for continuous learning, AI-augmented intelligence, and fast feedback loops across strategy, product, technology, and operations. You'll learn to sense, learn, and adapt at enterprise scale.
The book equips you with:
- 961 pages of strategic and tactical guidance
- 154 diagrams to clarify complex concepts
- 16 principles and 55 practices across technology, culture, organization, process, and architecture
- 150 page Body of Knowledge, integrating AI, cybernetics, Lean, DevOps, and more
- Concrete transformation tools: assessment rubrics, roadmaps, metrics, and governance patterns
It offers a layered framework, principles, practices, platform, outcomes, that guides you in building an enterprise designed for change, not just coping with it. Whether you are a CTO, CIO, enterprise architect, transformation coach, or team leader, this book offers the models and tools to break silos, align execution with strategy, and embed AI responsibly.
With forewords by Prof. Dr. Oliver Gilbert and Prof. Markus Dobbelfeld, this book bridges academic insight and industry experience, linking vision with execution across leadership, technology, and organizational design.
Why It’s Different
Most transformation efforts bolt new tools onto outdated structures. The Cybernetic Enterprise rebuilds the structure itself. It helps you design a feedback-driven, AI-augmented organization where learning compounds and change becomes a competitive advantage.
Who It’s For
- Executives aligning strategy, investment, and outcomes
- Architects and engineers scaling AI responsibly through platform thinking
- Product managers, designers, coaches, and change agents seeking coherence across initiatives
What You’ll Be Able to Do
- Build feedback loops into every layer of your organization
- Align investment with outcome-based metrics
- Accelerate AI adoption through platform engineering
- Design autonomous, durable product teams
- Create lightweight, principled governance that fosters experimentation
- Assess and steer transformation efforts with structured diagnostics
This Is a Preview Edition
This early release is complete but not final. It’s published now to gather real-world feedback, true to the cybernetic mindset. The final edition will launch in Q4 2025. Early buyers get it free, and the price will increase with the final release.
Build the enterprise you want to work in. Shape the system you want to lead. Become the organization the future demands. Your cybernetic journey starts now.
About the Author
Romano Roth is a pioneering thought leader in cybernetic transformation, enterprise evolution, and platform engineering, with over two decades of experience in the technology sector. As the Global Chief of Cybernetic Transformation at Zühlke, Romano shapes the global strategy and service portfolio for cybernetic enterprises, platform engineering, AI integration, and cloud solutions. His visionary approach redefines how organizations innovate, adapt, and scale in industries such as finance, insurance, cybersecurity, energy, healthcare, and aerospace.
In a world reshaped by Artificial Intelligence (AI), Romano believes the key to resilience and competitiveness lies in the transformation toward the Cybernetic Enterprise, a new operating model driven by feedback loops, AI-augmented workflows, and self-learning systems that place customer success at the center. His work empowers companies to continuously create value by harmonizing people, processes, technology, and AI.
Romano began his journey at Zühlke 23 years ago, evolving from software engineer and architect to trusted consultant, and now to his leadership role in cybernetic transformation. His passion for value creation through automation and quality led him from engineering into the DevOps movement and further into the forefront of enterprise transformation.
He is the organizer of the monthly DevOps Meetup in Zürich and the president of DevOps Days Zürich, an annual conference within the global DevOps movement. Romano shares his insights via his YouTube channel, with over 250 videos, and through more than 30 blog articles focused on DevOps, architecture, leadership, and transformation.
His commitment to thought leadership and education extends to his role as a lecturer in DevOps leadership, agile methodologies, digital transformation, and enterprise architecture at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. omano’s work champions a culture of innovation and agility, helping enterprises evolve into adaptive systems capable of thriving in complex, fast-changing environments.