Module 8 Overview

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

• 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 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.