A better question might be.Can we automate away the jobs of sales people, middle management and strategic directors? Yes, I believe we can.
The real question; Can we automate the job of corporate officer? The cost savings would be enormous...
Thats is a really hard problem. How do we define priorities and goals? There is certainly an argument for a company where the only goal is to make money and there is no overriding authority between divisions but there is so much sociopathic behavior in companies already.
A lot of management time is actually spent "conspiring". But software make a lot of this trivial. (Networking, synchronising, monitoring). software indeed threaten the power foundation of current elites. Just look at the banking industry where gradually, traders, then quants , then programmer (think hft) started taking a greater share of the revenue pie away from traditionnal bankers.