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AI Transformation Capstone: Executive Brief

IBM

AI Transformation Capstone: Executive Brief

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Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
Beginner level

Recommended experience

3 hours to complete
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Select and justify two or three high-value AI use cases for an enterprise, backed by an honest read of organizational readiness. 

  • Sequence those choices into a phased transformation roadmap that names the operating-model decisions each phase demands. 

  • Define a governance and risk framework for an executive brief: accountability, decision rights, and top risks with mitigations. 

  • Produce a board-ready executive brief with an ROI model and concrete year-one and year-two KPIs—a portfolio-grade work sample. 

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There are 2 modules in this course

Your board has asked what the return on the enterprise's AI investment has been, and leadership can show activity but not value. In this stage you take the seat of a Chief AI & Transformation Officer and write the first section of an AI Transformation Executive Brief: use cases and readiness. Seven AI initiatives are already running across the enterprise, and you are handed the evidence on each of them and a verdict on none. You score all seven on data, talent, infrastructure, workflow and value, pointing every score at the passage behind it; you give each one a disposition — invest, govern, defer, policy or retire — and you name the two or three you would fund and say what you chose them over. Then you write it the way a board reads: one page where every sentence decides, with your assumptions, findings and open questions filed underneath it.

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2 readings

A portfolio of funded AI initiatives is not yet a plan. In this stage of the capstone you decide when the enterprise does what it has already chosen to do, and what each phase has to prove before the next one is allowed to start. Working from a readiness pack that separates a workflow problem from a data problem, you place every initiative you funded into three fixed phases, land a quick win first, and name for each phase what it grounds and what its evidence releases. You choose one operating-model decision per phase — who owns delivery, what the work runs on, how money is released, who is made able — and you state the investment by phase and the incremental benefit by year. The output is the second section of your AI Transformation Executive Brief: a one-page roadmap and operating model a board could fund phase by phase, against gates carrying the authority to stop.

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