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AI for Business

A strategic framework for identifying, implementing, and scaling AI across any organization.

The definitive business AI course: covering readiness assessment, strategy, use-case development, vendor selection, governance, and scalable deployment. Built from Cory's 150+ real-world AI implementations.

Modules
4
Lessons
80
Time
10 to 12 hrs
Certificate
Yes

What you will learn

  • The AIDA Framework: AI readiness in 6 dimensions
  • Use case identification & ROI modeling
  • Vendor selection & procurement best practices
  • AI governance, ethics & risk management
  • Change management & employee adoption

Who it is for

Executives, managers, consultants

The full curriculum

4 modules, 80 lessons. Open any module to see its lessons.

Module 1 Foundations 20 lessons

Build a shared language for AI and assess where your organization stands.

  1. The 2026 AI Reality: Why You Cannot Afford to Sit This Out
  2. Demystifying the Stack: AI, ML, Deep Learning, and LLMs
  3. The Model Landscape in 2026: Claude, GPT, Gemini, and the Rest
  4. What AI Can Actually Do (And Where It Still Fails)
  5. The Honest Business Case: Productivity Research You Can Trust
  6. AI ROI Frameworks: Hard Dollars, Soft Dollars, Strategic Value
  7. AI Readiness Assessment: The Six-Dimension Audit
  8. The Vendor Landscape: Hyperscalers, Foundation Labs, App Layer
  9. Vendor Evaluation Basics: The 9-Point Scorecard
  10. Data Strategy Essentials: Garbage In, Garbage Out
  11. AI Talent: Hire, Upskill, or Partner
  12. Change Management Foundations: The Adoption Curve You Will Actually Hit
  13. Real Case Studies: JPMorgan, Klarna, Moderna, Air Canada
  14. Budgeting AI: What Things Actually Cost in 2026
  15. Risk: The Top 10 AI Risks Every Leader Must Track
  16. Security First: PII, Prompt Injection, Data Leakage
  17. Prioritization: Quick Wins vs Strategic Bets
  18. Your First AI Team: Roles, Structure, Reporting Lines
  19. Selling AI Internally: Winning the Skeptics
  20. Level 1 Capstone & Comprehensive Assessment
Module 2 Intermediate 20 lessons

Turn opportunities into prioritized, ROI-backed use cases.

  1. From Literacy to Strategy: What AI Strategy Actually Is
  2. Building Your AI Point of View
  3. The 12-Month Roadmap That Survives First Contact
  4. Pilot Design: Goals, Guardrails, and Going / No-Going
  5. Vendor Evaluation at Depth: The 25-Question Deep Dive
  6. Build vs Buy vs Partner: The Decision Tree
  7. Data Strategy for AI: Beyond Inventory
  8. OKRs and KPIs for AI: What to Measure Without Theater
  9. AI in the Five Functions: Finance, Marketing, Ops, HR, Sales
  10. The Agentic Strategy Shift: From Chat to Action
  11. Designing AI Governance Light Enough to Stick
  12. AI Portfolio Management: A Portfolio of Options
  13. AI Maturity Models: Where Are You, Really?
  14. Model Selection at the Strategy Level
  15. The AI Business Case for the Board
  16. Aligning AI Strategy with Corporate Strategy
  17. M&A and AI: Diligence in the Era of Embedded Models
  18. Strategic Partnerships in the AI Ecosystem
  19. Seven AI Strategy Pitfalls That Sink Year Two
  20. Level 2 Capstone: The 12-Month AI Roadmap
Module 3 Advanced 20 lessons

Select vendors and stand up governance.

  1. Implementation Reality: From Strategy to Shipping
  2. Building the AI Platform: Gateway, Models, Observability
  3. Change Management Deep Dive: The 12 Plays
  4. Designing Pilots That Graduate to Production
  5. Agentic Deployment in Practice
  6. Copilot Rollouts: The 90-Day Playbook
  7. MCP and the Composable AI Stack
  8. Human-in-the-Loop: Designing the Handoff
  9. Prompt Libraries and Style Guides at Scale
  10. KPIs, Monitoring, and the Five-Category Dashboard in Practice
  11. Evaluations: How You Know AI Outputs Are Actually Good
  12. Incident Response for AI Systems
  13. Vendor Onboarding and Ongoing Management
  14. Scaling from 3 Pilots to 30: The Discipline Shift
  15. Embedding AI in Core Business Processes
  16. Training Programs That Actually Stick
  17. Reskilling and the Future of Work in 2026
  18. AI Cost Optimization in Production
  19. Customer-Facing AI: The Higher Standard
  20. Level 3 Capstone: The Pilot Launch Playbook
Module 4 Professional 20 lessons

Scale AI and lead adoption across teams.

  1. Why Governance Is the Year-Three Differentiator
  2. NIST AI RMF Deep Dive: Govern, Map, Measure, Manage
  3. EU AI Act Compliance in Practice
  4. US AI Regulation in 2026: Federal Posture and State Patchwork
  5. Bias, Fairness, and Algorithmic Accountability
  6. Privacy, PII, and Data Sovereignty
  7. Intellectual Property in the AI Era
  8. AI Insurance and Liability Frameworks
  9. M&A in 2026 Revisited: AI Diligence at Depth
  10. AI Sustainability and Environmental Impact
  11. Building an AI Center of Excellence (Without Creating a Bottleneck)
  12. Reporting AI to the Board: Cadence, Format, Content
  13. AI Crisis Communications: The First 24 Hours
  14. AI and the Workforce: A 5-Year Horizon
  15. AGI Preparedness for Executives
  16. Building a Competitive Moat When Models Are Shared
  17. AI Procurement Discipline at Scale
  18. AI Ethics in Practice: From Principles to Repeatable Decisions
  19. The 5-Year Executive Playbook
  20. Level 4 Capstone: The AI Governance Charter

Your certificate

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