IMD Business School

AI Strategy and Implementation

IMD Business School

Digital Transformation & AI

About Programme

AI technologies including Generative AI and Agentic AI have the power to supercharge your digital transformation, but how do you separate hype from reality? What skillset will ensure you can make confident, data-driven decisions that enable smarter business models, boost organizational performance and create new value for your customers? Failure rates currently run high. Finding the right AI strategy for your context comes with challenges as well as opportunities. To succeed, you must also master your key steps to effective implementation of AI, GenAI, and Agentic AI.

AI Strategy and Implementation provides a comprehensive framework for integrating AI, GenAI and Agentic AI with analytics at the core of your strategic vision. You’ll explore different types of AI to achieve strategic goals, drive innovation, and deliver organizational value. The program covers advanced analytic models, the use of AI and autonomous AI agents, the development of AI-powered products, and strategies for fostering AI-first organizations.

Over five days you will be guided by expert faculty, supported by latest case studies and guest speakers who will show you how to advance from principle to practice. You will be able to confidently navigate from strategy to implementation to deliver accelerated impact for your business using AI, GenAI, and Agentic AI.

Understand different types of AI

Build a comprehensive understanding of AI GenAI and Agentic AI as a catalyst for business innovation and new sources of value.

Boost your decision-making

Boost your decision-making skills with a deeper understanding of the latest analytic models and how they connect with your strategy.

Succeed at AI implementation

Gain insights into the challenges and opportunities of AI implementation through real business cases.

Navigate issues around ethics

Learn how a solid AI policy can help your organization navigate issues around ethics, privacy and security

Accelerate business impact

Advance with confidence from principle to practice, integrating AI technologies with your strategy for long-term, sustainable success.

This program is part of our broader portfolio of AI & digital programs for executives , designed to equip leaders with the capabilities and confidence to turn AI and digital innovation into business impact.

Programme Content

How to integrate AI and data analytics with your strategy Day 1
Program overview
From ML to GenAI
Advanced analytics models
Applications to your business
Day 2
AI agents
Applications to your business
Building high-performing AI–human teams
Day 3
AI–human complementarities
Talent strategies for the age of AI
Company presentation (Databricks)
Day 4
AI strategy implementation
GenAI strategy
Day 5
Data analytics strategy
Application back to your business

Testimonials

"It’s been an inspiring and challenging week exploring how to turn AI into a true competitive advantage. My key takeaways: the right starting point is always asking, “What problem are we trying to solve?” And, without strong data foundations, AI cannot deliver sustainable impact. I gained great insights from faculty, guest speakers, and peers – your perspectives made the journey even more valuable! I look forward to applying these learnings in procurement and supply chain, using AI not as a buzzword but as a driver of resilience, innovation, and growth."

Luca Napodano

Head Of Procurement, Italy

"This program was one of the best investments I made in my life. Five days of practical and pragmatic advice from Professors like Amit Joshi, Misiek Piskorski, and José Parra Moyano, plus priceless insights from class cohort peers. What an extremely well organized program."

VitaVictoria Gushchenskov

Head of Governance and Performance Management, Omya Switzerland

"What a fantastic experience. An immersive week of learning and discovery exploring strategic frameworks, GenAI adoption, real-world use cases and ethical implementation of AI. Thanks to the professors for thought-provoking insights,inspiration, energy and deep expertise throughout the program. A true pleasure connecting with brilliant professionals from all over the world, sharing challenges, perspectives and inspiration. It was a blast!"

Michele Majed

AD, IT Business Relationship Management, Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Switzerland

"An intense and immersive week decoding how to lead and scale AI, from capturing business value and navigating GenAI disruption, to governance, data readiness, and autonomous agent ecosystems. Special thanks to the faculty, brilliant minds who masterfully connect strategic clarity with real-world application, challenging us to not only understand AI, but to lead it. And to the global participants from nearly every continent, all bringing senior-level insights."

David di Benedetto

Executive Director, UBS Investment Bank, Switzerland

"Eye-opening! Being there while DeepSeek vs. OpenAI unfolded was a front-row lesson in real-time disruption. My key takeaways: 1) Speed and mistakes are key—ML thrives on iteration. 2) Tech without a business case is nothing. 3) Cultural change is critical. 4) Data cleaning, labelling, and governance are the pillars of everything. 5) People trump everything. The passion of the professors made this experience outstanding."

Natalia Cardona Ruiz

Marketplaces Acceleration Lead @Growth Hub – Americas and Europe, BAT, Switzerland

"It’s a unique, impressive experience which has deeply changed my approach while reinforcing that digital transformation is the only way to create sustainable competitive advantage for any business. Thanks also to the top-notch group of other peers from all over the world."

Roberta Fabretti

Digital Marketing and E-Commerce Strategist, Switzerland

"Awesome attendees, faculty and exciting conversations on overcoming the (significant) challenges in digital transformation. It’s a fantastic learning experience, delivering valuable insights, practical action items and world-class tools."

Marcel Härtlein

Group Head Digital & Member of the Executive Board, Lalique Group, Switzerland

"It’s a deep dive into the world of unstructured data, prescriptive apps, AI, ML, and Generative AI. This program equipped me with valuable skills and inspired me to continuously challenge myself and think innovatively. It made me “rewire” my brain to reflect differently and challenge my status quo."

Carl Michael Hennen

Director/Strategic Business Partner, Novartis, Switzerland

"What an inspiring week. I learned from amazing faculty and about 50 other global professionals in different industries. We are all on the same path to transition from legacy mode to a digital journey for our businesses and clients. Very exciting!"

Tania Mueller

Global Head Institutional Client Service Management, UBS, Switzerland

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