After this course you can steer AI adoption as a programme rather than a loose collection of experiments. You assess how ready an organisation is, choose use cases by their value, decide whether to build or buy, plan pilots and move successful solutions into day-to-day operation. Governance, change management and metrics are part of the picture throughout. The course suits you if you lead programmes or transformations and need to coordinate AI initiatives across several teams.
What you’ll take away.
- Assess an organisation's readiness and AI maturity
- Prioritise AI use cases by value and turn them into a roadmap
- Support change with models such as ADKAR and Kotter
- Plan and evaluate pilots and move them into scaled operation
- Embed governance, ethics and value measurement in the AI programme
Your training in detail
- Who is it for?
- Programme and project managers, transformation and IT leads, and managers who steer the adoption of AI across several teams.
- Prerequisites
- Experience leading projects or programmes. A basic understanding of what AI applications can do will help you get started.
- Format & planning
- Standard length: 3 training days. A different length can be arranged for companies.
Agenda: from understanding to application
Our independently developed agenda proposal. Focus areas, lab environment and scope are agreed before booking.
AI fundamentals for business adoption and the AI life cycle
Organisational readiness and AI maturity assessment
Identifying use cases, assessing value, deriving strategy and roadmap
Change management and enabling teams
AI platforms and tools: build, buy or partner
Governance, ethics and safe AI adoption
Pilot, scaled rollout, impact measurement and sustaining the transformation
For a fictitious company you assess AI maturity, prioritise five use cases, decide between building, buying and partnering, and design a pilot with measurable success criteria.
Exams, licences & credentials
The course prepares you for EC-Council's Certified AI Program Manager (C|AIPM) certification. EC-Council sets the exam format and eligibility. The exam and its fee are only included if the offer explicitly confirms this. The certificate is issued by EC-Council. This is not an official EC-Council course unless the offer states otherwise.
Vendor references & review date
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Your learning content
These objectives describe the training topic. The specific syllabus, dates and trainer are agreed before booking; the written offer is binding.
Frequently asked questions
Is this a technical AI course?
No. The focus is on strategy, prioritisation, steering and measuring value. Technical topics are covered as far as you need them to make decisions.
Which change models are covered?
EC-Council lists ADKAR and Kotter's model, among others, for the change management module.
Does EC-Council Certified AI Program Manager (C|AIPM): planning and scaling AI programmes include a certificate?
The course prepares you for EC-Council's Certified AI Program Manager (C|AIPM) certification. EC-Council sets the exam format and eligibility. The exam and its fee are only included if the offer explicitly confirms this. The certificate is issued by EC-Council. This is not an official EC-Council course unless the offer states otherwise.