Digital Transformation and AI Playbook: Leverage Technology to Innovate Your Business

More than ever, digitization is essential for businesses to sustain a competitive advantage and foster innovation. Leading digital transformation requires the right mix of technical knowledge, digital strategy frameworks, and leadership best practices. Through real-world applications, the Digital Transformation and AI Playbook program will enable you to harness digital technologies, lead with confidence, and create measurable value. Developed by Stanford Graduate School of Business with deep ties to Silicon Valley, this learning journey will prepare you for the next era of AI in business.

Program Modules

Define the benefits of digital transformation and how it can be applied to challenges faced by organizations to innovate.

Identify digital transformation solutions that address organizational needs and support new business models.

Evaluate your familiarity with data, and gain a deeper understanding of how to apply it to a given business need.

Identify ways to avoid common pitfalls that hinder data projects.

Describe how data can become the basis for new business models.

Evaluate the capabilities of cloud services to address business needs or capture new opportunities using digital technologies.

Design a business experiment in which you will explain how to use data analytics and visualization to facilitate business decision making.

Distinguish between the three types of ML algorithms and how to apply them to address business needs and opportunities.

Discuss best practices and common pitfalls of AI and ML implementation.

Explore the capabilities and limitations of automation and related technologies.

Articulate the business value and trade-offs of implementing cutting-edge technologies, focusing on opportunities for automation within your organization.

Develop a digital transformation road map by evaluating digital initiatives and defining short- and long-term digital strategy goals.

Formulate strategies to transform individual behaviors and organizational culture to support digital transformation.

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DEMYSTIFY THE TECH: Discover the endless applications of digital technologies, including AI, machine learning (ML), cloud, automation, IoT, AR, and VR, to support your digital transformation initiatives, and build your vocabulary to communicate more effectively with technical specialists.

EXPLORE AI'S ROLE IN TRANSFORMATION: Understand AI and ML — including emerging technologies like foundation models and AI agents — and evaluate where they can add value in your business model.

LEVERAGE THE TECH: Evaluate the capabilities of emerging technologies to create business value and gain a competitive advantage.

DEVELOP YOUR STRATEGY: Develop a digital strategy for shaping organizational culture and capabilities to achieve digital transformation.