Module 8: Executive AI strategy brief

Module 8: Executive AI strategy brief#

Theme#

Executive AI strategy brief

Essential Question#

What decision should the executive team make now?

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

  • 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 executive ai strategy brief: Present a board-ready AI strategy brief.

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.

Use This Module in Order#

  1. Read the learning chapter.

  2. Review the slide deck with the matching narration.

  3. In Populi, open the private student-repository link for this course and enter modules/module-8.

  4. Clone the repository once or open its Codespace/Colab copy; run lab.ipynb and complete exercise.ipynb there.

  5. Self-check with the rubric, commit and push the work, then submit exactly what Populi requests.