Building an Enterprise AI Strategy & Roadmap
Overview
Many organisations run scattered AI pilots without a clear direction. This course gives participants a structured method to build an enterprise AI strategy: assessing readiness, choosing priorities, defining the operating model and turning it all into a realistic roadmap with budgets, milestones and measures of success.
Who should attend
Strategy, digital transformation and IT leaders, AI programme managers, and senior managers sponsoring AI initiatives.
Training methodology
Facilitated discussion, practical frameworks, case studies from different sectors, group exercises, short demonstrations of AI tools, and an action plan for each participant's organisation.
Objectives
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Assess organisational AI readiness and maturity
- Link AI ambitions to business strategy
- Prioritise initiatives by value and feasibility
- Design the AI operating model and governance
- Build a phased, costed AI roadmap
Course outline
Day 1Readiness and Ambition
- AI maturity models
- Assessing data, skills and technology
- Setting the level of ambition
- Readiness assessment workshop
- Benchmarking against peers
- Defining the AI vision statement
Day 2Strategic Alignment
- Linking AI to business goals
- Identifying value pools
- Build, buy or partner
- Stakeholder alignment
- Risk appetite for AI
- Aligning with digital and data strategies
Day 3Portfolio and Prioritisation
- Generating a long list of use cases
- Value-feasibility scoring
- Quick wins versus strategic bets
- Portfolio balancing exercise
- Sequencing and dependencies
- Sponsor and owner for each initiative
Day 4Operating Model and Governance
- Centre of excellence models
- Roles, skills and sourcing
- Data and platform foundations
- Governance and risk controls
- Vendor and partner ecosystem
- Talent strategy for AI
Day 5The Roadmap
- Phasing and dependencies
- Budgets and resourcing
- KPIs and benefit tracking
- Presenting the roadmap to leadership
- Communication of the strategy
- Review and update cycles
