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MSAI 495: Special Topics: Strategy and Adoption of Artificial Intelligence in Organizations

The course investigates how organizations determine where to deploy artificial intelligence and how they achieve sustained adoption. We treat strategy and adoption as interdependent problems: competitive positioning and constraint analysis shape where an organization should invest, while the science of behavioral change and human-AI collaboration shape whether that investment produces lasting practice. We work across both, confronting the politics, bias, and institutional inertia that sit between a sound strategy and a working deployment.

Coursework is cumulative and applied. Teams produce readiness audits, strategy deliverables, and adoption designs, using AI as the analytical instrument throughout the process. Students leave the course with the capability to lead AI initiatives from strategy through adoption. Strategy without adoption is theater, and adoption without strategy is chaos; the course operates at that intersection.