AI Strategy and Opportunity
For the leaders setting the direction. The unit to take when AI is being talked about in your organisation but nothing has actually been decided.
Why this unit exists
Most organisations start with a tool and look for a problem to point it at. This unit runs the other way round. You start with your own goals and your own processes, work out where AI genuinely changes the economics and where it does not, and leave with a strategy written for your business rather than a folder of notes.
Who should sit it
Leaders and senior managers who set direction: directors, heads of department, operations and anyone who will be asked what the organisation is doing about AI.
Six things a leader walks out able to do
One topic per workshop. Every one of them is worked through on your own organisation, using your own processes and your own data.
Tell real capability from sales language
What an AI product can actually do, what it only claims to do, and the questions that separate the two before anybody is committed.
Screen opportunities properly
Judging each idea on value, feasibility and risk together, so the shortlist is defensible rather than whatever sounded most exciting.
Turn an idea into a defined use case
Taking a vague ambition and writing it up as a scoped use case with a pilot design somebody could actually run.
Write the AI strategy itself
Vision, principles, priority areas and risk appetite, aligned to the goals the organisation already has rather than bolted on beside them.
Apply UK GDPR to AI
Where your existing data policy already covers you, where it quietly does not, and what has to be written to close the gap.
Build oversight that fits your size
Human oversight and governance proportionate to the organisation, so it is strong enough to hold and light enough to survive.
One document, written for your business
The workbook activities build, piece by piece, into a written AI strategy covering vision, principles, priority areas, governance, workforce, measurement and risk appetite. It is written about your organisation during the sessions, so what comes out is something you can act on rather than a portfolio of exercises.
- A written AI strategy for your own organisation
- A screened and scored list of opportunities
- One use case defined in enough detail to pilot
- A view of where your data policy falls short
Each unit stands alone
Most organisations start with the one that matches the decision in front of them, then add the others as the work moves on. All three together come to roughly 90 hours.
AI Adoption, Procurement and Governance
For the people evaluating options, building the business case and signing things off. The unit to take when you are about to spend money.
AI Delivery and Organisational Transformation
For the leaders who have to make it land. This unit deals with the part most organisations underestimate: people, risk and what happens after go live.
Come to a taster session first
We run one every month, open to any employer. See how the sessions work before you commit anybody's time.