Business-Aligned AI Strategy Formation Course

Name: Business-Aligned AI Strategy Formation Course
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Connect business priorities to governed AI opportunities, value cases, capabilities, portfolio decisions, and measurable benefits.

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Duration: 5 days
Format: Classroom
Cities: Langkawi, Vienna, Kuala Lumpur, Johannesburg, Milan, Dubai and more
Next session: 11 – 15 October 2026, Langkawi
Average fee: 5,800 €

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Overview

Business-Aligned AI Strategy Formation Course is a five-day course for business leaders, functional directors, strategy managers, transformation sponsors, and business unit heads, who leave with an AI Strategy Formation Roadmap. Participants connect priorities to AI opportunities, screen use cases, define value and risk criteria, assign governance and decision rights, plan capabilities and partnerships, sequence a portfolio, and measure benefits. Agile Leaders Training Center provides training in business-aligned AI strategy formation.

Who Should Attend

Business leadership personnel responsible for strategic priorities and investment choices
Functional leadership personnel responsible for performance and operating needs
Strategy personnel responsible for portfolios, roadmaps, and value cases
Transformation sponsors responsible for adoption, governance, and benefits
Business unit personnel responsible for use-case ownership and execution

The course assumes participants contribute to business planning or transformation decisions and leaves out model development, specialist data science, technical architecture, and generic digital-transformation theory.

Departments and Industries

The course supports business-led AI strategy formation across corporate and public-service organizations.

Corporate strategy and business planning functions
Business units and functional leadership teams
Transformation and innovation offices
Operations and customer-service organizations
Finance, healthcare, and education leadership
Infrastructure and professional-services organizations

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

Analyze business priorities for AI opportunity
Apply value and risk criteria to use cases
Build governance and decision-rights arrangements
Evaluate capability, data, and partnership needs
Prioritize an AI use-case portfolio and benefits
Build an AI Strategy Formation Roadmap

Course Agenda

Day 1: Strategic Ambition and Business Priorities

Business Priority and Outcome Map
AI Strategic Ambition Canvas
Stakeholder Sponsorship Matrix
Current Initiative and Constraint Inventory
Strategy Scope and Exclusion Charter

Day 2: Opportunities and Value Cases

Business Problem Framing Sheet
AI Use-Case Opportunity Funnel
Value Driver and Benefit Map
Use-Case Feasibility and Risk Screen
Evidence and Assumption Register

Day 3: Governance and Capabilities

AI Governance Decision Rights Chart
Use-Case Ownership RACI Matrix
Data Readiness Assessment Card
Workforce Capability Gap Map
Partner and Sourcing Option Grid

Day 4: Portfolio and Benefits

AI Use-Case Prioritization Matrix
Portfolio Dependency and Sequence Map
Funding and Stage-Gate Decision Flow
Benefits Realization Measure Set
Portfolio Review and Adaptation Scorecard

Day 5: AI Strategy Formation Practice

Suggested Exercise: Align AI Ambition with Business Priorities
Suggested Exercise: Screen Opportunities and Build Value Cases
Suggested Exercise: Set Governance and Capability Actions
Suggested Exercise: Prioritize the Portfolio and Benefits
Capstone Exercise: AI Strategy Formation Roadmap

Practical Exercises

The course uses suggested activities that convert business priorities into a governed AI strategy.

Suggested activity: define strategic ambition, desired outcomes, sponsorship, constraints, and scope
Suggested activity: frame business problems, screen use cases, map value drivers, and record assumptions
Suggested activity: assign decision rights, assess data and capability gaps, and compare partnership options
Suggested activity: prioritize initiatives, map dependencies, define stage gates, and set benefit measures

FAQs

Who suits AI strategy formation training, and what does it assume?

AI strategy formation training suits leaders responsible for priorities, investment, transformation, operations, or business-unit performance. It assumes familiarity with organizational planning and requires no programming.

How does AI strategy formation differ from technical AI training?

AI strategy formation focuses on business goals, use cases, value, governance, capabilities, portfolios, and benefits, while technical AI training focuses on data engineering, models, software, and deployment.

How should leaders prioritize AI use cases?

Leaders should compare use cases against strategic relevance, measurable value, feasibility, data readiness, risk, capability needs, dependencies, ownership, adoption effort, and time to evidence.

What governance belongs in a business AI strategy?

Business AI strategy governance should define sponsorship, decision rights, use-case ownership, risk tolerance, review gates, data responsibilities, human oversight, benefit accountability, and escalation paths.

What belongs in an AI Strategy Formation Roadmap?

The roadmap should contain ambition, priorities, use cases, value cases, governance, capabilities, data needs, partnerships, portfolio sequence, stage gates, benefit measures, owners, and review cycles.

Conclusion

Participants take back an AI Strategy Formation Roadmap linking business priorities, opportunities, value, governance, capabilities, partnerships, portfolio sequence, and measures. It changes how leadership teams select and sponsor AI initiatives. The roadmap provides a basis for coordinated investment, accountable decisions, measurable benefits, and periodic adaptation.

credits: 5 credit per day

Course Mode: full-time

Provider: Agile Leaders Training Center

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Location	Dates	Duration	Mode	Price
Munich	Week 04, 2027 25 – 29 January 2027	5 Days	Onsite	€5,700
Zoom	Week 05, 2027 1 – 5 February 2027	5 Days	Online	€1,500
Seoul	Week 05, 2027 1 – 5 February 2027	5 Days	Onsite	€10,000
Bali	Week 05, 2027 7 – 11 February 2027	5 Days	Onsite	€5,700
Dubai	Week 06, 2027 8 – 12 February 2027	5 Days	Onsite	€4,500
Singapore	Week 07, 2027 15 – 19 February 2027	5 Days	Onsite	€5,700
Cape town	Week 08, 2027 28 February – 4 March 2027	5 Days	Onsite	€4,500
Riyadh	Week 09, 2027 7 – 11 March 2027	5 Days	Onsite	€5,700
Cairo	Week 10, 2027 8 – 12 March 2027	5 Days	Onsite	€4,100
Prague	Week 11, 2027 15 – 19 March 2027	5 Days	Onsite	€6,000
London	Week 12, 2027 22 – 26 March 2027	5 Days	Onsite	€5,700
Madrid	Week 13, 2027 29 March – 2 April 2027	5 Days	Onsite	€5,700
Istanbul	Week 14, 2027 5 – 9 April 2027	5 Days	Onsite	€4,500
New York	Week 14, 2027 5 – 9 April 2027	5 Days	Onsite	€12,000
Dubai	Week 15, 2027 12 – 16 April 2027	5 Days	Onsite	€4,500
Trabzon	Week 15, 2027 18 – 22 April 2027	5 Days	Onsite	€6,800
Abu Dhabi	Week 17, 2027 26 – 30 April 2027	5 Days	Onsite	€4,700
Accra	Week 17, 2027 2 – 6 May 2027	5 Days	Onsite	€4,100
Sharm El-Sheikh	Week 18, 2027 3 – 7 May 2027	5 Days	Onsite	€4,100
Vienna	Week 19, 2027 10 – 14 May 2027	5 Days	Onsite	€5,700

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OverviewBusiness-Aligned AI Strategy Formation Course is a five-day course for business leaders, functional directors, strategy managers, transformation sponsors, and business unit heads, who leave with an AI Strategy Formation Roadmap. Participants connect priorities to AI opportunities, screen use cases, define value and risk criteria, assign governance…

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Business-Aligned AI Strategy Formation Course