Module 3 Overview

Theme

Capability maturity and operating model

Essential Question

What capabilities must exist to execute strategy?

Module Components

• Book prose: conceptual framing, domain scenario, methods, and failure modes

• Assignment: evidence-backed production of a specific artifact

• Slides: presentation sequence for seminar or lecture delivery

• Narration: spoken version of the slide flow

• Instructor notes: facilitation plan, discussion prompts, and grading cues

• Rubric: criteria for evaluating the module artifact

• Notebook: executable lab aligned with the module theme using synthetic initiative portfolio with strategic fit, feasibility, risk, cost, and expected value scores

Module Artifact

board-ready AI strategy brief with portfolio prioritization and governance commitments focused on capability maturity and operating model: Assess maturity and gaps.

Professional Setting

Students work as if advising an executive committee deciding which AI initiatives deserve funding next quarter. Their work must be intelligible to CEO, CFO, CIO, business-unit leader, and governance chair.