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Description

Enterprise AI Strategy: Setting Direction, Making Trade-Offs and Steering the Roadmap

One day to connect your AI initiatives to a budgeted and defensible roadmap

  • 1 day — 7 h
  • In-person or virtual
  • Expert
  • Up to 6 participants

AI initiatives multiply department by department with no overall view. Two teams build tooling for the same need, budgets drift into scattered subscriptions, and the executive committee has no consolidated picture of the risks or the expected gains. Everyone moves fast and the organisation stands still.

This seven-hour programme builds the framework that is missing. Participants establish a baseline of current use cases and available data, define priority domains, decide between buying and building, size the resources required, and formalise a roadmap together with its governance arrangements.

Learning objectives

  • Establish a baseline of the organisation's AI use cases and data
  • Define priority domains in line with the chosen strategy
  • Decide between market solutions and in-house development
  • Size the human, technical and budgetary resources required
  • Formalise a roadmap supported by governance bodies
  • Build the monitoring indicators presented to the executive committee

What makes this programme different

A twelve-month roadmap drafted during the session
A build-or-buy decision grid applied to your own requirements
A governance model setting out who decides, who funds and who controls

Programme

1Baseline and Ambition

Knowing your starting point

  • Inventory of existing use cases and tools already paid for
  • Assessment of team maturity and available data
  • Reading sector dynamics and the positioning sought
  • Framing an achievable ambition

2Priorities and Trade-Offs

Choosing where to invest

  • Selecting domains with strong impact on the value chain
  • Deciding between market solutions and in-house development
  • Sizing human and technical resources
  • Building the budget and associated scenarios
  • Vendor dependency and exit conditions

3Roadmap and Governance

Making the strategy executable

  • Sequencing workstreams over twelve months
  • Decision-making bodies and associated roles
  • Alignment with security and compliance requirements
  • Indicators presented to the executive committee
  • Periodic review of the trajectory

Who is it for

Executive committee members · chief information officers · transformation directors and heads of strategy.

Prerequisites

Hold a leadership or enterprise-wide steering role.

Dates & locations

36 scheduled dates between November 2026 and December 2027. Seats are confirmed in the order enquiries are received.

November 2026

December 2026

January 2027

February 2027

March 2027

April 2027

May 2027

June 2027

September 2027

October 2027

November 2027

December 2027

None of these dates suit you? We open additional sessions on request, and any programme can be run privately for your team.

Practical details

Before the programme
Online positioning questionnaire. Your development objectives are shared with the trainer, who tailors the practical case studies to your context.
Teaching methods
Theoretical input, workshops and practical case studies. Digital course materials and method sheets provided.
Assessment
Multiple-choice tests and role-play exercises. Assessment of learning at the start and end of the programme, with immediate and 60-day follow-up evaluations.
After the programme
One year of access to the e-learning platform. Self-assessment of the skills acquired and a 30-day follow-up session with your trainer.
How to register
Registration online or on the basis of a quotation.
Lead time
11 working days after confirmation of registration.
Accessibility
Accessible to people of determination. Contact our accessibility coordinator to design a suitable solution: contact@mpf-academy.ae
Start dates
Rolling intake: in addition to the scheduled sessions, this programme can start on request.