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AI Strategy and Oversight for Executives

A half-day session for the board and executive team on where AI creates and destroys value, what the organisation is accountable for, and what to ask for in reporting.

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Runs most often inFinancial services and bankingHealthcare and life sciencesPublic sector

What participants can do afterwards

  • Distinguish AI investments that change unit economics from those that do not
  • State what your organisation is accountable for when it deploys AI
  • Set the reporting you need to see adoption and risk without vanity metrics
  • Sponsor an AI literacy programme that is proportionate to role and risk
  • Interrogate the next AI proposal that reaches the board

Modules

4 modules, 6 facilitated hours.

  1. 1.Where the value is, and is not

    2 hrs

    Separating AI investments that change unit economics from those that do not.

    • Assess an AI investment case on unit economics

  2. 2.What you are accountable for

    1.5 hrs

    Organisational accountability when AI systems are deployed, including staff literacy duties.

    • State your organisation's accountabilities for deployed AI

  3. 3.What to ask for in reporting

    1.5 hrs

    Specifying adoption and risk reporting that is not vanity metrics.

    • Specify the AI reporting the board should receive

  4. 4.The questions for your next board pack

    1 hrs

    Turning the session into the specific questions each executive will ask of the next AI proposal that reaches them.

    • Leave with the questions to ask of the next AI proposal

How it is delivered

A facilitator runs the course live, in person or live online. Attendance is taken per session, participants submit work against the modules above, and a facilitator grades it. Those records stay with the organisation and can be exported.

Further reading

Technology judgement for non-technical directors is the public briefing that sits next to this course.

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