AI Strategy for Enterprises
Develop the strategic insight, practical frameworks and AI strategy roadmap to lead enterprise transformation.
Upcoming programmes
Format:
Dates:
Duration:
Fees:
Face-to-face
22-24 Jul 2026
3 days
£5,000 + VAT
Upcoming programmes
Format:
Face-to-face
Dates:
22-24 Jul 2026
Duration:
3 days
Fees:
£5,000 + VAT
Overview
This programme is designed to help leaders move beyond experimentation and develop a more strategic response to the opportunities and challenges created by AI. Over three days, participants will examine how AI and digital futures are reshaping competitive positioning, value creation and strategic choice, while considering the realities of their own organisation’s data, capabilities and ambitions. The focus is not on adopting technology for its own sake, but on building the insight needed to make informed, practical and responsible strategic decisions.
Across the programme, participants will examine how AI intersects with business strategy, influencing competitive positioning, value propositions, operating models and future sources of advantage. Through practical frameworks and applied discussion, the programme encourages leaders to challenge current assumptions, assess where strategic priorities may need to evolve, and identify opportunities for AI to support growth, resilience and reinvention. Emphasis is placed on maintaining coherence between AI initiatives and wider business strategy, ensuring innovation is aligned with organisational goals, capabilities and long-term value creation.
By the end of the programme, participants will have begun developing the first steps of an AI strategy and roadmapping plan tailored to their organisation. They will leave with practical tools to assess opportunities, support implementation and engage colleagues in responsible AI-enabled change. More than a discussion about technology, the programme is intended as a foundation for strategic action, helping leaders translate emerging possibilities into decisions and priorities they can take back to their organisations.
Benefits and career impact
- Master strategic AI leadership: strengthen your ability to lead end-to-end enterprise transformation, moving beyond the sponsorship of isolated pilots to drive systemic organisational change.
- Evaluate and prioritise AI opportunities: develop the analytical rigour to assess machine learning, generative AI, and AI agents based on strategic fit, data maturity and risk profiles.
- Utilise proven strategic frameworks: build proficiency in using practical canvases and frameworks to identify AI opportunities and data journey blind spots, linking them directly to competitive advantage.
- Navigate complex implementation challenges: master the organisational, political and governance hurdles inherent in embedding AI and autonomous systems into established enterprise processes.
- Execute a board-ready action plan: translate AI ambition into a compelling stakeholder narrative and a concrete transformation roadmap, providing a definitive personal action plan for your return.
- A clearer enterprise‑level direction for AI, data and agents, linking adoption to strategic priorities and values.
- Stronger alignment between leadership, business strategy, data governance and AI initiatives, reducing duplication and ‘shadow AI’.
- A structured approach to prioritising machine learning, generative AI use cases and AI agents that supports sustained competitive advantage and responsible innovation.
- Greater ability to move beyond experimentation to scalable, risk‑managed organisational impact, with clear human-AI collaboration patterns.
- Leaders equipped with a shared language, frameworks and roadmap to guide the organisation through AI‑driven transformation.
- Team attendance: turn learning into execution. When multiple team members attend, your organisation gains a unified AI vision and coordinated roadmap, accelerating implementation and reducing the risk of siloed initiatives.
Successful AI strategy requires a balance of bold innovation and rigorous risk management. We empower leaders to navigate the governance and ethical complexities of embedding AI agents, ensuring that enterprise-level deployment is both scalable and responsible.
Programme content
Module 1: Strategy, AI and data realities
- AI and digital futures as forces reshaping strategic choices.
- Current strategy, values and opportunities for responsible value creation.
- Organisational data realities and their implications for AI ambition.
- Strategic positioning in response to disruption and uncertainty.
- Assumptions surrounding current strategic readiness.
Module 2: AI use cases, opportunities and risks
- Strategic AI use cases grounded in organisational data realities.
- Alignment between AI opportunities, data capabilities and business priorities.
- Practical frameworks for diagnosing value-creating use cases.
- Risks, constraints and governance considerations shaping implementation.
- The first building blocks of an AI strategy.
Module 3: Business model innovation and data platforms
- AI’s implications for business models, capabilities and value propositions.
- The influence of data platforms and ecosystems on strategic positioning.
- Risks and opportunities created by evolving data and market structures.
- Coherence between current business models and future strategic ambitions.
- Strategic AI initiatives for growth and reinvention.
Module 4: Designing future business models
- Digital futures and emerging technologies as drivers of future value creation.
- Business model responses to disruption over the next three to five years.
- Strategic opportunities alongside associated risks and challenges.
- Future-oriented options
for AI-enabled business
model design. - Translation of future thinking into practical strategic choices.
Module 5: Strategic change and AI adoption
- The transition from experimentation to scaled AI adoption.
- Strategic change, organisational readiness and implementation journeys.
- AI literacy, skills and stakeholder engagement in transformation.
- Alignment between AI adoption, strategy and organisational values
- Practical challenges associated with scaling AI across the enterprise.
Module 6: Implementation, governance and AI strategy roadmapping
- Governance, ethics and human–AI collaboration in implementation.
- Trust, responsible oversight and risk in AI-enabled transformation.
- The first steps of an AI strategy and road mapping plan.
- Practical planning for taking strategy back into the organisation.
- A coherent approach to enterprise reinvention through AI.
Who attends
- Leaders seeking to understand how to incorporate AI, data and AI agents into enterprise strategy and operating models, and the organisational consequences of doing so.
- Business unit leaders responsible for shaping and implementing machine learning, generative AI use cases and AI agents that deliver strategic value, not just pilots.
- Digital, data and transformation leaders tasked with embedding AI across the organisation, designing governance for data journeys and orchestrating multiple agents.
- Leaders who must translate AI potential into board‑ready strategy, risk‑managed implementation plans and human-AI collaboration models.
The programme is particularly valuable for teams attending together, enabling organisations to align leadership around a shared AI vision, AI strategy and roadmap for building an agentic enterprise.
Faculty and speakers
Learn from our world-class faculty who bring fresh insights from their leading-edge research into all of our Executive Education programmes. The Academic Programme Director (APD) for the AI Strategy for Enterprises programme is Professor Michael Barrett.
Vice-Dean for Strategy and University Engagement
PhD (University of Cambridge)
Co-Director of the Centre for International Human Resource Management (CIHRM)
PhD (University of London)
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Speak to a programme advisor
If you have any questions or would like to discuss how this programme could benefit you or your organisation, please get in touch with the programme advisor.
