Society and organizations are creating petabytes of data, and with Artificial Intelligence (AI) we can put that data to work in order to improve well-being, increase revenue and reduce costs. With modern technology we can use internal and external, structured and unstructured data and apply Artificial Intelligence to bring new possibilities to make predictions, improve decision making, improve company performance and augment human capabilities.
However, this new field of science comes with new terminologies and technologies. But it is not just about data and technology. To really create business value with AI you need to scale up from isolated Proof of Concepts to a coherent approach and prepare the organization for effective use of AI. That needs a vision to define the best opportunities for AI to support the business, it needs a framework to understand which capabilities in the organization have to improve, and an implementation strategy to know what to do where and when.
This course provides participants with the AI literacy to be the business AI leader in their organizations, to understand AI concepts and use cases, to converse on a qualified level with the data specialists, to create an AI strategy and develop an AI ready organization, to know how to set up and run an AI project and to assess the make or buy decision of tooling.
Course Methodology
This courses applies a variety of interactions, ranging from team-work on case studies, to individual work on applying templates to their own experience, to group discussions about joint challenges.
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
Explain AI as a concept and all its applications
Apply the different AI applications in the business value chain
Demonstrate the technologies and algorithms behind AI
Apply best practices in an AI project with its activities
Assess the available and necessary skills and competencies
Discuss on a qualified level with business and data specialists on relevant topics
Create and execute an AI strategy and develop an AI ready organization
Target Audience
This course is designed for senior, middle and high potential management who recognize that digital transformation and AI is unavoidable; and for those who understand that continuous improvement, innovation and disruption is part of doing business and want to be prepared and reap the benefits of Artificial Intelligence.
In short, this course is for managers wanting to identify what AI can do for them and to drive Digital Transformation, rather than understand the technical methodologies of what happens underneath its hood.
Understanding of basic technology concepts such as data and cloud is helpful but not required.
Target Competencies
AI Best Practice Application
AI Change Management
AI Business Translator
AI Project Management
Course Outline
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and Data Science
AI in historical setting and combinatorial technologies
Introduction to AI, concepts, narrow and general AI
Different types of AI
AI - sense, reason, act
The thinking in AI: Machine learning
Advanced Analytics vs Artificial Intelligence
Looking back, now, forward
4 types of data analytics
Analytics value chain
Algorithms but without technical jargon
Supervised learning
Unsupervised learning
Reinforcement learning
Data as fuel for AI
Structured and unstructured data
The 5 V’s of data
Data governance
The data engineering platform
Just enough to understand the data architecture
Big data reference architecture
3 categories of data usage
AI opportunity matrix
Successful use cases by Porter’s value chain
Primary activities
Supporting activities
Successful use cases by technology
NLP
Image recognition
Machine learning
Ideation of AI projects
AI Funnel process
Several idea generation approaches
Prioritize projects
AI project canvas
Running of AI projects
Machine learning life cycle
AI machine learning canvas
When to make and when to buy AI solutions
How to transform to an AI ready organization
Use the AI strategy cycle
Dimensions of the AI framework
Practical approach to assess the AI maturity of the organization