Module 6 Overview

Theme

Metrics, value realization, and accountability

Essential Question

How will leaders know AI strategy is working?

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 metrics, value realization, and accountability: Design an executive metric set.

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.