Leading the AI-Driven Organization

MIT Sloan School of Management

Artificial Intelligence

About Programme

Why attend Leading the AI-Driven Organization?

Artificial intelligence (AI) has ushered in a transformative era for businesses, with profound implications across various sectors. Today, AI technologies are enabling companies to enhance decision-making through data-driven insights and predictive analytics, optimize operations for efficiency, and personalize customer experiences at unprecedented levels. However, AI also poses challenges, such as the need for ethical considerations, data privacy, and upskilling the workforce to harness AI's full potential. How can you ensure that you are equipped to lead AI initiatives effectively?

Leading the AI-Driven Organization lays out a clear path for navigating the transformative landscape of AI. It begins by defining and describing the current state of AI, tracing its evolution, and exploring what this means for you, your teams, and your organizations. You will acquire a comprehensive understanding of the AI continuum, which spans from basic AI concepts to advanced technologies like machine learning (ML), deep learning (DL), generative AI, and the journey towards artificial general intelligence (AGI).

A key objective of the course is to help you assess the profound impact of AI-related technologies on the future of work within your teams, organizations, and industries. You'll learn how to strategically apply AI technologies to create optimized value in your business operations. The course content and experience will emphasize an exploration and experiment-driven approach to accelerate AI-related innovation within your teams and organizations. You will also gain the ability to speak and communicate in a common AI/digital language, both internally and externally, enhancing your business networks' effectiveness.

This course is not recommended if you have already taken the AI Executive Academy .

Course Topics

Programme Content

Day 1: AI Business Impact

8:15 AM – 9:00 AM

Registration/Breakfast

9:00 AM – 10:30 AM

Where are we today with AI and how did we get here?

10:30 AM – 10:45 AM

Break

10:45 AM – 12:15 PM

AI Today: 'Fireside Chat' with Industry Guest

12:15 PM – 1:15 PM

Lunch

1:15 PM – 2:45 PM

AI Technologies: Definitions and differences

3:00 PM – 4:30 PM

AI Transformative Impact

4:30 PM – 6:30 PM

AI Playbook Activity, Day 1 Review, Networking Reception

Day 2: AI: Strategic Innovation

8:15 AM – 9:00 AM

Breakfast

9:00 AM – 9:30 AM

Learning Circle

9:30 AM – 11:00 AM

AI/ML, Data Analytics, and Business Advantage

11:00 AM – 11:15 AM

Break

11:15 AM – 12:45 PM

Leading with AI: Application Example

12:45 PM – 1:15 PM

Lunch

1:15 PM – 2:45 PM

AI: Data Fuel of AI

3:00 PM – 4:45 PM

Activating an Innovation Mindset, AI Playbook Activity

Day 3: AI: Optimizing Application

8:15 AM – 9:00 AM

Breakfast

9:00 AM – 9:30 AM

Learning Circle

9:30 AM – 11:00 AM

AI: Expectation versus Reality

11:00 AM – 11:15 AM

Break

11:15 AM – 12:45 PM

AI and Deep Technology Systems: How to Optimize AI Application

12:45 PM – 3:00 PM

Lunch and MIT Campus Tour

3:00 PM – 4:30 PM

Responsible AI: DEI and Dealing with BIas: MIT Guests

4:30 PM – 4:45 PM

AI Playbook Activity

Day 4: AI: Human Elements

8:15 AM – 9:30 AM

Breakfast and Learning Circle

9:30 AM – 10:30 AM

AI: Human Elements

10:30 AM – 10:45 AM

Break

10:45 AM –12:15 PM

AI Workforce Readiness and Culture: Industry Guest

12:15 PM – 1:15 PM

Lunch

1:15 PM – 2:45 PM

Superminds: Combining Humans and Computers

3:00 PM – 4:45 PM

MIT App Inventor: Building Your Own GenAI Chatbot and AI Playbook Activity

5:30 PM – 8:30 PM

Celebratory Dinner

Day 5: AI: Trajectory and Trends

8:15 AM – 9:00 AM

Breakfast

9:00 AM – 9:30 AM

Learning Circle

9:30 AM – 10:30 AM

AI: MIT multi-domain discussion on AI trajectory and trends

10:30 AM – 10:45 AM

Break

10:45 AM – 11:45 AM

Leading Your AI-Driven Organization: Key Principles

11:45 AM – 12:00 PM

Break

12:00 PM – 12:45 PM

Course Reflections and Certificate Ceremony

12:45 PM

Grab-and-Go Lunch

Programme Objective

This course is characterized by a commitment to an interactive and engaging learning experience. With a blend of crisp lectures, hands-on workshops (which will include building your own GenAI chatbot and training Machine Learning Models), group activities, and structured social interactions, faculty aim to maximize the value created during your time together.

Throughout the week, you will also work independently and in small groups to create a personalized AI playbook. Ample time will be dedicated to reflections on key learnings, capturing those takeaways in your playbook, and understanding how to apply these insights to your organization.

Join us in this course to unlock the full potential of AI in your senior executive role and drive innovation and growth in your teams and organizations.

What you'll take away:

AI Business Impact:

understand AI capabilities today and define the transformative business impact its technologies and techniques can have on you your organization.

AI Strategic Innovation

: define the relationships between AI technologies and data that support strategic innovation and deliver demonstrable business advantage.

AI Optimizing Application

: learn techniques to optimise AI performance and ensure responsible application of AI in your organizations.

AI: Human Elements

: develop approaches to AI workforce readiness and culture that combine human and machine capabilities in complementary systems.

AI: Trajectory

: build an intuition for current and future AI trends and trajectories likely to impact your organization in the near and next futures.

AI Playbook

: create a personalized AI playbook that operates as a roadmap for the responsible and optimized application of AI in your organization, starting today.

Programme Audience

Who should attend Leading the AI-Driven Organization?

This program is designed to prepare those with strategic decision-making responsibilities to effectively analyze, articulate, and apply key AI management and leadership insights in their work and that of their teams and organizations. It is particularly beneficial to those managing individuals and teams who are responsible for the design and delivery of AI and other transformative technology initiatives in any industry.

Regardless of whether you are currently in a technical or non-technical function, if you are looking to support your organization’s digital transformation, or you want to build capability and confidence in applying generative AI in your work, this course is for you.

Programme Benefits

AI Business Impact

Learn techniques to optimize AI performance and ensure responsible application of AI in your organizations

Blueprint

Results in a blueprint for application of key elements of AI exploration, experimentation, and evolution in your organization

MIT Faculty Insights

Gain insights from world-renowned MIT Faculty

Certificate

Confers a certificate of course completion from MIT Sloan Executive Education and counts toward the Executive Certificate in Digital Business

Testimonials

"My head is still buzzing with possibility, almost a month after completing this great course."

John C

"This is a fascistic journey. The class shifted my perspective from thinking primarily about how organizations adopt AI to thinking about how AI changes the organizational system itself. The competitive advantage may not come from having the best model or the most AI features. It may come from building an organization that knows what problems are worth solving, what decisions require human judgment, what should be delegated to AI, what must remain human, and how to create enough trust to move quickly without becoming careless. For me, the central leadership challenge is therefore not simply How do we become AI-driven? It is: How do we build an organization that becomes better at thinking, learning, deciding, and adapting because of AIwithout becoming less capable of doing those things without it?"

Ray-Hon S

"MITs Leading the AI-Driven Organization is a masterclass in converting technological potential into strategic impact through the core principle of Mens et Manus. The program provides a rigorous toolkit to move organizations beyond simple adoption toward deep adaptation. I now feel equipped to lead Last Mile Engineering, reducing friction and architecting a truly AI-fluent workforce."

Tiago K

"This course was very insightful for all aspects of AI leadership. The people in the class were of a high caliber and the speakers were the top of their areas. it is focused on senior leadership in companies but also provided enough beginner information in areas so that everyone could go along for the ride. Paul was great leading the course and made sure the keys points were reiterated and reinforced everyday. Would recommend to those leading companies and deciding on where funds are attributed to AI implimentation."

Scott M

"The lecture helped me to gain a holistic view what AI is about. I got very good inside how AI works, what huge opportunities you can gain, what limitations AI has and how important the human factor will remain. More importantly how you can use AI as a leadership tool in further development of your organization. All the five days have been extremely insightful and it was a good mix of lessons, discussions and practicing. A very much inspiring week."

Friedrich H

"Excellent, up-to-date content delivered by passionate, well-informed lecturers."

Ron M

"The course is really well structured, and the content curation stands out, with a balanced mix of all the relevant areas in AI. The instructors are deeply experienced and engage with the class extremely well. The cohort itself is exceptional, full of highly experienced professionals. What I valued most was the format. It is designed to encourage networking and the exchange of experiences, and it gave me the chance to connect with other senior executives facing analogous challenges."

Carlos D

"This programme was a world-class education and a masterpiece of preparation for C-suite executives to master the upcoming AI transformation."

Walter S

"Very insightful course, exceptionally well led and organized. Specifically designed for leaders who want to be prepared to navigate AI adoption within their companies, it provides clear principles to guide strategic decision-making. The contributions from various experts were valuable, offering deep dives into different domains and practical perspectives. The energy throughout the program and the interactions among participants made the experience even more enriching. Highly recommended."

Anna C

"Overall, highly recommended. The faculty was excellent, and the curriculum is very relevant for anyone involved in AI strategy within their organization. The course introduces a number of practical frameworks that I have found particularly useful for explaining how to approach AI adoption. The cohort was also a highlight. The 60 participants were smart, informed, and impressive overall, including many senior executives from global companies, which added meaningfully to the experience. The facilities are modern and well maintained, and the program is very well run, with most meals included. A high-quality course overall, and a strong flagship for Sloans AI track."

Matthew B

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