Role-Based Programme
RB1109

AI for Strategy & Business Management

Strategic Planning, Business Intelligence & Smarter Decision-Making

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Duration
8 Hours
Level
Basic
Delivery
Instructor-Led
Format
Workshop

Programme Objectives

  • Understand how AI can support Strategy and Business Management across research, planning, performance analysis, problem-solving, and decision-making.
  • Apply AI to analyse markets, competitors, business performance, risks, strategic opportunities, and management priorities.
  • Use AI to improve strategic planning, business reviews, scenario development, executive reporting, and stakeholder communication.
  • Develop practical skills for prompting, assumption testing, option evaluation, prioritisation, and decision preparation.
  • Understand responsible AI use, source validation, confidentiality, governance, bias, and human accountability in strategic and business-management work.

Tools covered

Generative AI AssistantsAI Search & ResearchDocument AnalysisData AnalysisMarket & Competitive IntelligenceScenario PlanningDecision FrameworksExecutive SummarisationAI-Powered Presentation Tools

Who should attend

  • Strategy Professionals
  • Business Management Professionals
  • Corporate Strategy Managers
  • Business Planning Managers
  • Business Analysts
  • Strategy & Transformation Professionals
  • Business Operations Managers
  • Performance Management Professionals
  • Corporate Planning Professionals
  • Management Consultants
  • Business Excellence Professionals
  • Chief of Staff Professionals
  • Functional Strategy Leaders
  • Senior Business Managers

Prerequisites & Participant Readiness

  • Basic understanding of strategy, business planning, or management activities
  • Familiarity with business reports, KPIs, market information, or management reviews is helpful
  • Basic understanding of digital business tools
  • No programming or technical AI knowledge required
  • Prior AI-tool experience is helpful but not mandatory

TOC Modules

Concepts
  • Understanding Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Large Language Models, and AI assistants
  • Understanding how AI can support strategy, planning, analysis, management, and communication
  • Distinguishing AI assistance from traditional analytics, automation, and search
  • Understanding AI limitations, hallucinations, uncertainty, and information-quality risks
Practical activities
  • Identifying Strategy and Business Management activities suitable for AI assistance
  • Comparing traditional and AI-assisted approaches to a management task
  • Mapping potential AI applications across the strategy and management lifecycle

Scenarios

Business Challenge to Strategic Action Plan

Business Challenge → AI-Assisted Research → Market & Performance Analysis → Strategic Options → Scenario Comparison → Risk Assessment → Priorities → Action Plan

Participants use AI to analyse a sample business challenge, evaluate alternative strategic responses, assess risks and dependencies, and prepare a structured action plan for management review.

Business Performance to Executive Decision

Performance Data → Variance Analysis → Market Context → Possible Drivers → Management Options → Decision Criteria → Executive Brief → Follow-Up Actions

Participants use AI to combine business-performance information with external context, compare management options, and create an executive-ready decision brief with clear follow-up actions.

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