Enterprise Artificial Intelligence Transformation

Acknowledgments

Over the years, many people have inspired me both at work and in my home life, and either directly or indirectly helped to shape this book.

I am grateful to Randall Orbon and Adriana Miller, whose enthusiasm made this book possible.

I am deeply appreciative of all the editors who helped me to refine my ideas, sharpen my language, and create a more compelling narrative: Kevin Harreld, Elisha Benjamin, Pilar Patton, Bill Kozel, and Louise Gikow.

Without the support of my peers, teams, clients, and partners at Publicis Sapient, as well as the people who took the time to educate me and share their perspectives, I would not have arrived at the point where I could write this book. For this I want to thank Sray Agarwal, Nitin Agrawal, Professor Genevera Allen, Hilding Anderson, Rohit Arora, Irakli Beridze, Kanishka Bhattacharya, Bill Braun, Hugh Connett, Art Crosby, Rodney Coutinho, Milind Godbole, Steve Guggenheimer, Shahed Haq, Professor Catherine Havasi, Jeremy Howard, Professor Chris Jermaine, Cassie Kozyrkov, Dan Lambright, Tim Lawless, Burton McFarland, Hugo Manessi, David Murphy, Andrew Ng, Satyendra Pal, Professor Ankit Patel, David Poole, Amit Singh, Ahsan Sohail, Josh Sutton, Cobus Theunissen, Kevin Troyanos, Ashish Tyagi, Bob Van Beber, and Ray Velez.

I continue to be inspired by the people who ignited my initial interest in models and algorithms: Masud Haq, Nandini Ramachandran, Saly Kutty Joseph, Tayyba Kanwal, Farhad Faisal, Joseph Eberly, Joseph Niesendorfer, ...