Strategy
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.
- The 2026 AI Reality: Why You Cannot Afford to Sit This Out
- Demystifying the Stack: AI, ML, Deep Learning, and LLMs
- The Model Landscape in 2026: Claude, GPT, Gemini, and the Rest
- What AI Can Actually Do (And Where It Still Fails)
- The Honest Business Case: Productivity Research You Can Trust
- AI ROI Frameworks: Hard Dollars, Soft Dollars, Strategic Value
- AI Readiness Assessment: The Six-Dimension Audit
- The Vendor Landscape: Hyperscalers, Foundation Labs, App Layer
- Vendor Evaluation Basics: The 9-Point Scorecard
- Data Strategy Essentials: Garbage In, Garbage Out
- AI Talent: Hire, Upskill, or Partner
- Change Management Foundations: The Adoption Curve You Will Actually Hit
- Real Case Studies: JPMorgan, Klarna, Moderna, Air Canada
- Budgeting AI: What Things Actually Cost in 2026
- Risk: The Top 10 AI Risks Every Leader Must Track
- Security First: PII, Prompt Injection, Data Leakage
- Prioritization: Quick Wins vs Strategic Bets
- Your First AI Team: Roles, Structure, Reporting Lines
- Selling AI Internally: Winning the Skeptics
- Level 1 Capstone & Comprehensive Assessment
Module 2 Intermediate 20 lessons
Turn opportunities into prioritized, ROI-backed use cases.
- From Literacy to Strategy: What AI Strategy Actually Is
- Building Your AI Point of View
- The 12-Month Roadmap That Survives First Contact
- Pilot Design: Goals, Guardrails, and Going / No-Going
- Vendor Evaluation at Depth: The 25-Question Deep Dive
- Build vs Buy vs Partner: The Decision Tree
- Data Strategy for AI: Beyond Inventory
- OKRs and KPIs for AI: What to Measure Without Theater
- AI in the Five Functions: Finance, Marketing, Ops, HR, Sales
- The Agentic Strategy Shift: From Chat to Action
- Designing AI Governance Light Enough to Stick
- AI Portfolio Management: A Portfolio of Options
- AI Maturity Models: Where Are You, Really?
- Model Selection at the Strategy Level
- The AI Business Case for the Board
- Aligning AI Strategy with Corporate Strategy
- M&A and AI: Diligence in the Era of Embedded Models
- Strategic Partnerships in the AI Ecosystem
- Seven AI Strategy Pitfalls That Sink Year Two
- Level 2 Capstone: The 12-Month AI Roadmap
Module 3 Advanced 20 lessons
Select vendors and stand up governance.
- Implementation Reality: From Strategy to Shipping
- Building the AI Platform: Gateway, Models, Observability
- Change Management Deep Dive: The 12 Plays
- Designing Pilots That Graduate to Production
- Agentic Deployment in Practice
- Copilot Rollouts: The 90-Day Playbook
- MCP and the Composable AI Stack
- Human-in-the-Loop: Designing the Handoff
- Prompt Libraries and Style Guides at Scale
- KPIs, Monitoring, and the Five-Category Dashboard in Practice
- Evaluations: How You Know AI Outputs Are Actually Good
- Incident Response for AI Systems
- Vendor Onboarding and Ongoing Management
- Scaling from 3 Pilots to 30: The Discipline Shift
- Embedding AI in Core Business Processes
- Training Programs That Actually Stick
- Reskilling and the Future of Work in 2026
- AI Cost Optimization in Production
- Customer-Facing AI: The Higher Standard
- Level 3 Capstone: The Pilot Launch Playbook
Module 4 Professional 20 lessons
Scale AI and lead adoption across teams.
- Why Governance Is the Year-Three Differentiator
- NIST AI RMF Deep Dive: Govern, Map, Measure, Manage
- EU AI Act Compliance in Practice
- US AI Regulation in 2026: Federal Posture and State Patchwork
- Bias, Fairness, and Algorithmic Accountability
- Privacy, PII, and Data Sovereignty
- Intellectual Property in the AI Era
- AI Insurance and Liability Frameworks
- M&A in 2026 Revisited: AI Diligence at Depth
- AI Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Building an AI Center of Excellence (Without Creating a Bottleneck)
- Reporting AI to the Board: Cadence, Format, Content
- AI Crisis Communications: The First 24 Hours
- AI and the Workforce: A 5-Year Horizon
- AGI Preparedness for Executives
- Building a Competitive Moat When Models Are Shared
- AI Procurement Discipline at Scale
- AI Ethics in Practice: From Principles to Repeatable Decisions
- The 5-Year Executive Playbook
- Level 4 Capstone: The AI Governance Charter
Your certificate
Complete every lesson and your certificate is issued on the spot, with a permanent credential number. Anyone can confirm it on the Academy's verify page, for good.
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