This comprehensive book explores the transformative role of artificial intelligence (AI) in business innovation and research. It provides a solid foundation in AI technologies, such as machine learning, natural language processing, and computer vision, and examines how they reshape business models and revolutionize industries. The book highlights the strategic implications of AI in enhancing customer experience, optimizing operations, and enabling data-driven decision-making. It explores the integration of AI with emerging trends like IoT, blockchain, and cloud computing for innovation. The role of AI in advancing scientific discovery and academic research is also explored, addressing challenges and opportunities in AI-driven methodologies. Organizational and ethical dimensions of AI implementation are considered, including talent acquisition, skills development, and data governance. Real-world case studies showcase AI's transformative power across diverse industries. This forward-thinking guide equips academics, researchers, and business leaders with knowledge and insights to harness the potential of AI and contribute to innovation and research.

Artificial intelligence (AI) reshapes the entrepreneurial landscape by offering tools and insights to encourage innovation, transform ideas, and impact business owners’ mindsets. With AI's ability to analyze vast amounts of data, predict trends, and automate complex processes, entrepreneurs are now equipped to make more informed decisions, streamline operations, and discover new market opportunities. However, to fully harness AI's potential, there must be a concerted effort to democratize access to these technologies and provide the necessary skills and resources to aspiring founders. By fostering a culture of learning and experimentation, entrepreneurs may become empowered to explore the vast possibilities of AI within business management processes. It has become necessary to cultivate AI literacy and accessibility, for improved inclusivity and innovation in entrepreneurship practices. Empowering Entrepreneurial Mindsets With AI explores the possibilities of artificial intelligence within entrepreneurial methods. Applications of AI in business are positively outlined, with an emphasis on industry professional empowerment and technology development. This book covers topics such as mental health and wellbeing, cybersecurity, and digital technology, and is a useful resource for therapists, agriculturists, security professionals, healthcare workers, computer engineers, business owners, academicians, researchers, and scientists.

The intersection of corporate governance, financial performance, and long-term value creation is critical to effective sustainability in business. Effective corporate governance provides the framework for accountability and ethical decision-making, directly influencing a company's financial health and its capacity for long-term growth. Such tactics also ensure transparency and trust, enhancing financial performance by mitigating risks and optimizing resource allocation. Successful business operations involve long-term value creation, which involves investing in innovation, sustainability, and stakeholder relationships. Effective research into governance structures that support both immediate financial objectives and enduring value creation is necessary to ensure businesses thrive and achieve a sustainable future. Intersecting Corporate Governance, Financial Performance, and Long-Term Value Creation explores the convergence of corporate governance, finance, and value creation in business. It offers solutions for long-term business sustainability through various models of governance and banking and finance applications. This book covers topics such as energy engineering, Islamic finance, and sustainable development, and is a useful resource for business owners, government officials, finance professionals, engineers, scientists, academicians, and researchers.

World-renowned economist Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, explains that we have an opportunity to shape the fourth industrial revolu­tion, which will fundamentally alter how we live and work. Schwab argues that this revolution is different in scale, scope and complexity from any that have come before. Characterized by a range of new technologies that are fusing the physical, digital and biological worlds, the developments are affecting all disciplines, economies, industries and governments, and even challenging ideas about what it means to be human. Artificial intelligence is already all around us, from supercomputers, drones and virtual assistants to 3D printing, DNA sequencing, smart thermostats, wear­able sensors and microchips smaller than a grain of sand. But this is just the beginning: nanomaterials 200 times stronger than steel and a million times thinner than a strand of hair and the first transplant of a 3D printed liver are already in development. Imagine “smart factories” in which global systems of manu­facturing are coordinated virtually, or implantable mobile phones made of biosynthetic materials. The fourth industrial revolution, says Schwab, is more significant, and its ramifications more profound, than in any prior period of human history. He outlines the key technologies driving this revolution and discusses the major impacts expected on government, business, civil society and individu­als. Schwab also offers bold ideas on how to harness these changes and shape a better future—one in which technology empowers people rather than replaces them; progress serves society rather than disrupts it; and in which innovators respect moral and ethical boundaries rather than cross them. We all have the opportunity to contribute to developing new frame­works that advance progress.

The Book explores the intricate balance of preserving cultural heritage while fostering sustainable urban growth. This comprehensive volume presents a diverse array of chapters, each exploring unique facets of this critical intersection. From the contextual preservation methods in Italy's military landscapes and advanced data fusion techniques in Selinunte, to the phenomenological exploration of Bahrain's architectural identity and the environmental frameworks for its primary health care centers, the book offers multifaceted insights. It navigates through the urban transformations in historic sites like Thamugadi and Tripoli, the digitization for conservation in Algeria, and the sustainable urban futures informed by indigenous knowledge systems. Furthermore, it examines public space dynamics, urban green infrastructure, and the integration of sustainable development into urban planning, with case studies spanning from Turkey to Tehran. The book also addresses contemporary architectural discourse, mobility in architecture, and the significance of unacknowledged tributaries in urban planning. Through a rich tapestry of empirical research, case studies, and theoretical analysis, this book is an essential resource for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers dedicated to the advancement of cultural heritage and sustainable urban development.

"a provocative new book" — The New York Times AI-centric organizations exhibit a new operating architecture, redefining how they create, capture, share, and deliver value. Now with a new preface that explores how the coronavirus crisis compelled organizations such as Massachusetts General Hospital, Verizon, and IKEA to transform themselves with remarkable speed, Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani show how reinventing the firm around data, analytics, and AI removes traditional constraints on scale, scope, and learning that have restricted business growth for hundreds of years. From Airbnb to Ant Financial, Microsoft to Amazon, research shows how AI-driven processes are vastly more scalable than traditional processes, allow massive scope increase, enabling companies to straddle industry boundaries, and create powerful opportunities for learning—to drive ever more accurate, complex, and sophisticated predictions. When traditional operating constraints are removed, strategy becomes a whole new game, one whose rules and likely outcomes this book will make clear. Iansiti and Lakhani: Present a framework for rethinking business and operating models Explain how "collisions" between AI-driven/digital and traditional/analog firms are reshaping competition, altering the structure of our economy, and forcing traditional companies to rearchitect their operating models Explain the opportunities and risks created by digital firms Describe the new challenges and responsibilities for the leaders of both digital and traditional firms Packed with examples—including many from the most powerful and innovative global, AI-driven competitors—and based on research in hundreds of firms across many sectors, this is your essential guide for rethinking how your firm competes and operates in the era of AI.

Examines how information technologies are affecting jobs, skills, wages, and the economy.