The AI for Business Leaders program is a learning program created by MIT Sloan Executive Education, adapted in collaboration with Collegial and Ericsson. The program is designed to prepare managers and high-level executives with strategic decision-making responsibilities to analyze, articulate effectively, and apply key AI management and leadership insights in their work and their teams and organizations.
To ensure participants have the best learning experience, the program delivered by Collegial is a curation of the most relevant AI learning content MIT Sloan Executive Education has to offer for business leaders. They will also interact in AI webinars hosted by experts fromImplement Consulting Group.
Cross Company Program
AI for Business Leaders is a cross-company collaboration program where participants can learn together with participants from other organizations. In addition to the content from MIT Sloan Executive Education, the program offers real examples from participating companies as well as live webinars with experts from Implement Consulting group. They also get insights from other participants through continuous cross-company collaboration in Learning Teams, which will broaden their learning network and support their work.
Purpose & objectives The AI for Business Leaders program will support and empower participants to start using artificial intelligence in your organization.
By the end of this program, participants will: • understand where AI is today and how we got here • recognize the implications of new technologies for business strategy, the economy, and society • understand how AI can strengthen the workforce • apply their knowledge to support informed strategic decisions around the use of key AI technologies in their business (machine learning and Generative AI) • develop a plan for how to use AI in your organization with the help of their AI playbook
Target group
This program is designed for business leaders and managers with strategic decision-making responsibilities who want to understand how AI can create value in their organization. No technical background is required.
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Learner insights from the program
What they learned
Through real case studies and hands-on experiences, participants have gained:
A comprehensive understanding of AI, ML, and Gen AI applications, including use case identification, AI selection, and business integration.
Insights into the importance of data quality for successful AI projects.
Awareness of AI ethics, bias, and its potential workforce impact.
How they've applied it
From strategy to execution, participants have:
Integrated and improved the use of ML and Gen AI tools, such as Copilot, in business processes.
Collaborated with experts to identify use cases and implement AI/ML strategies.
Leveraged the power of quality data.
Challenges they anticipate
While implementing their learnings, participants foresee:
Limited resource availability, including time, budget, and necessary competencies.
Challenges with accessing quality data, including issues related to availability, confidentiality, and management.
Resistance to change, competing priorities, and challenges in securing management and stakeholder buy-in.
What you can expect:
• Webinars delivered by AI experts from Implement Consulting Group • Video concepts from the MIT faculty • Company case studies • Shared reflections
• Learning Teams • Quizzes • Discussion channels and questions • AI playbook to support participants in future AI projects
Being able to interact with lots of people from different companies and different backgrounds. This results in constant perspective change and more realization of topics.
The program has the right balance of theory, interaction and examples. It also gives flexibility to participants to pace the learning at their own will - I found this to be great blessing.
Use cases, learning more about AI from other companies and their respective journeys. The AI playbook is great, very hands-on and concrete.
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