AI Transformation for Business Leaders

Curriculum

Every chapter is listed here. You enrol in the whole course, not one chapter.

1. Module 1

   The landscape in business language

   Generative AI, agents, and the platforms a sponsor actually hears about. Separate a real capability from a vendor demo.

   • What you can say in one minuteGenerative AI drafts. An agent takes a next step. A platform is where the vendor wants you to live. You leave able to say which is which.
   • A demo is not a capabilityWhat to ask before a logo gets a budget: the job, the data, the human checkpoint, and what happens when it is wrong.

2. Module 2

   Use cases worth funding

   From a vague pain to a ranked list: impact, feasibility, and risk.

   • From a complaint to a candidateA workshop that turns "we should use AI" into a named job, a user, and a result.
   • Impact, feasibility, riskA short list. Everything else waits. Risk includes the customer, the staff, and the regulator.

3. Module 3

   The case and the 90-day map

   A return a finance partner can read, and gates from trial to pilot to production.

   • A number finance can readCost, time returned, and what you are not counting. No inflated year-five slide.
   • Trial, pilot, productionEach gate has an owner and a reason to stop.

4. Module 4

   Governance a partner team can live with

   Privacy, audit, and a human checkpoint where the risk sits.

   • Where the risk actually sitsPrivacy, audit, and the decision a model must not make alone.
   • A page Legal and Security can mark upOne control list. Not a policy no one opens.

5. Module 5

   Build, buy, or partner

   A repeatable way to choose. Not a tour of logos.

   • The three choicesBuild when the job is yours. Buy when the job is common. Partner when you need a capability you will not staff.
   • Questions that survive a sales callData leaving the building, exit, and who is accountable when the output is wrong.

6. Module 6

   Adoption, not another login

   Training, champions, and what to do when people go back to the old way.

   • Access is not useWho must change a habit, and what they get on the first day that is better than the old way.
   • Champions and the quiet refusalA named network, and what you do when usage drops after week three.

7. Module 7

   Running the work and reporting up

   Several workstreams. One status a director can use.

   • One status, several workstreamsBusiness and technical work on the same page. No theatre.
   • Numbers a director will ask forUse, quality, risk, and the decision you need this week.

8. Module 8

   Why these projects stall

   The leadership failures, including the pilot that never becomes the job.

   • The pilot that never becomes the jobEarly signs: no owner, no data, a demo standing in for a workflow.
   • Leadership failures, namedFunding without a gate. A tool chosen before the job. Adoption left to an email.

9. Module 9

   Your playbook

   Roadmap, governance, adoption, and the numbers — presented as if the sponsor were in the room.

   • Roadmap, governance, adoption, numbersOne pack for the use case you brought.
   • Say it to the roomA short presentation, as if the sponsor were there. The certificate follows the pack, not a quiz.