Leveraging Ai For Business Innovation: 10 (Digital Transformation: Accelerating Organizational Intelligence)

This book offers a comprehensive, up-to-date guide for business leaders and professionals looking to leverage AI effectively in their organizations. It addresses the growing demand for practical knowledge on AI implementation in business contexts, filling a gap between purely technical AI literature and general business strategy books.

Dr Jay Liebowitz is the Professor of Business Innovation and Industry Transformation and Director of a new AI-EDGE Center in the Crummer Graduate School of Business at Rollins College, as of August 2024. He has recently served as the inaugural Executive-in-Residence for Public Service at Columbia University's Data Science Institute. He was previously a Visiting Professor in the Stillman School of Business and the MS-Business Analytics Capstone & Co-Program Director (External Relations) at Seton Hall University. He previously served as the Distinguished Chair of Applied Business and Finance at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology. Before HU, he was the Orkand Endowed Chair of Management and Technology in the Graduate School at the University of Maryland University College (UMUC). He served as a Full Professor in the Carey Business School at Johns Hopkins University. He was ranked one of the top 10 knowledge management researchers/practitioners out of 11,000 worldwide, and was ranked #2 in KM Strategy worldwide according to the January 2010 Journal of Knowledge Management. At Johns Hopkins University, he was the founding Program Director for the Graduate Certificate in Competitive Intelligence and the Capstone Director of the MS-Information and Telecommunications Systems for Business Program, where he engaged over 30 organizations in industry, government, and not-for-profits in capstone projects.

Prior to joining Hopkins, Dr Liebowitz was the first Knowledge Management Officer at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Before NASA, Dr Liebowitz was the Robert W. Deutsch Distinguished Professor of Information Systems at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, Professor of Management Science at George Washington University, and Chair of Artificial Intelligence at the US Army War College.

Dr Liebowitz is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of Expert Systems With Applications: An International Journal (published by Elsevier; ranked as a top-tier journal; Thomson Impact Factor from June 2021 is 8.665). He is a Fulbright Scholar, IEEE-USA Federal Communications Commission Executive Fellow, and Computer Educator of the Year (International Association for Computer Information Systems). He has published over 45 books and a myriad of journal articles on knowledge management, analytics, financial literacy, intelligent systems, and IT management. Dr Liebowitz served as the Editor-in-Chief of Procedia-CS (Elsevier). He is also the Series Book Editor of the Data Analytics Applications book series (Taylor & Francis), as well as the Series Book Editor of the new Digital Transformation: Accelerating Organizational Intelligence book series (World Scientific Publishing). In October 2011, the International Association for Computer Information Systems named the "Jay Liebowitz Outstanding Student Research Award" for the best student research paper at the IACIS Annual Conference. Dr Liebowitz was the Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Business at Queen's University for the Summer 2017 and a Fulbright Specialist at Dalarna University in Sweden in May 2019. He is in the Top 2% of the top scientists in the world, according to a 2019 Stanford Study. As of 2021, he is the Visiting Distinguished Professor at the International School for Social and Business Studies in Slovenia. His recent books are: Data Analytics and AI (Taylor & Francis, 2021), The Business of Pandemics: The COVID-19 Story (Taylor & Francis, 2021), A Research Agenda for Knowledge Management and Analytics (Elgar Publishers, 2021), Online Learning Analytics (Taylor & Francis, 2022), Digital Transformation for the University of the Future (World Scientific, 2022), and Cryptocurrency Concepts, Technology, and Applications (Taylor & Francis, April 2023), Pivoting Government Through Digital Transformation (Taylor & Francis, 2024), and Developing the Intuitive Executive: Using Analytics and Intuition for Success (Taylor & Francis, 2024). His newest book, Regulating Hate Speech Created by Generative AI, was published by Taylor & Francis in August 2024. He has lectured and consulted worldwide.

Peter McAlindon is the Entrepreneur in Residence at the Crummer Graduate School of Business at Rollins College as of 2012. He served six years as the Executive Director of the Center for Advanced Entrepreneurship at the Crummer Graduate School of Business, where he pioneered a program with NASA to commercialize NASA intellectual property with MBA student teams and directed the largest venture pitch competition in central Florida. He is also co-founder of venVelo, a Florida-based seed capital fund.

His expertise includes start-up ventures, angel capital, human-computer interaction, product design and development, research methods, and statistics. He is the founder and chief executive officer of Blue Orb Inc., a central Florida-based technology company that develops computer technology for persons with disabilities. He holds seven patents related to computer keyboards and typing methodologies. He's been recognized for innovation, including honors and awards from the DaVinci award committee, Liberty Mutual, top honors for accessible technology at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, and has been awarded multiple grants from the National Science Foundation's SBIR program. He has lectured and consulted nationwide and serves on many boards that serve children and young adults with special needs.

A native of Michigan, he graduated with honors from the University of Michigan, holds an MAS in Aeronautical Science from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, and a PhD in Industrial Engineering from the University of Central Florida with an emphasis in Human Factors and Ergonomics. His recent publications include: An MBA Capstone that's Out of this World: Commercializing NASA Patents (Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, 2024), Accelerating Business Model Development and Organizational Decision-Making Through the Use of AI and Intuition (Achieving Digital Transformation through Analytics and AI, World Scientific, 2025).