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Tagged with: #executive-education

Posts tagged with #executive-education offer insights for C-suite leaders navigating AI, cloud, and data-driven transformation. Explore frameworks, strategies, and practical tools to enhance decision-making and drive enterprise-wide change. From boardroom governance to scaling innovative technologies, these insights provide actionable guidance for executives seeking to build leadership capabilities, align strategies, and lead with confidence in a rapidly advancing digital landscape.

Rethinking Business Cases in the Age of AI: Building Your AI Business Case

London | Published in AI and Board | 18 minute read |    
A professional team collaborates around a conference table reviewing an AI business case document. Digital displays show multi-dimensional value metrics, ROI projections across different time horizons, and strategic alignment graphics. The scene conveys analytical rigour combined with strategic vision in building a compelling AI investment case. (Image generated by ChatGPT 4o).

Organisations are demanding disciplined, comprehensive business cases for AI initiatives that balance traditional financial rigour with frameworks capturing AI’s unique value creation patterns. In this fourth article in my series on AI business cases, I provide a step-by-step guide to building AI business cases that secure approval and set the foundation for successful implementation.

Upskilling for the AI Era: Building a Future-Ready Workforce

London | Published in AI and Board | 15 minute read |    
A conceptual digital illustration showing a workforce transitioning from traditional learning to AI-driven training — with one side depicting analog tools and classroom settings, and the other featuring holographic interfaces and futuristic technology. (Image generated by AI)

As I discussed in my article on building and managing AI-capable teams, organisations face a critical challenge in acquiring the right talent for AI transformation. This reminds me of the early days of cloud adoption, when I advised enterprises on their migration strategies. Back then, I witnessed the same scramble for scarce talent, which led me to advocate strongly for upskilling existing teams rather than relying solely on external hiring.

Europe's AI challenge: Why culture trumps capital in technology adoption

San Francisco | Published in AI and Board | 7 minute read |    
A dystopian image showing the essence of cultural challenges in AI adoption within Europe, blending innovation and resistance visually (Image generated by ChatGPT 4o).

While here in San Francisco for a business trip, I got the opportunity to spend time with technology innovators and leaders, and what struck me was the contrast in AI adoption approaches, and openness to transformation using AI compared to my experiences in Europe. A new benchmark report from Gallup has confirmed what many of us in technology leadership have long suspected: Europe’s lag in AI adoption isn’t a matter of insufficient capital – it’s a cultural challenge that runs deep.

Harnessing AI for organisational change led from the Board

London | Published in AI and Board | 5 minute read |    
Mario Thomas and Kenneth Benoit standing in front of a display screen at the London School of Economics

I had an incredible afternoon as a guest lecturer at the The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) where I got to discuss harnessing AI for organisational transformation led from the Board, at this summer’s Data Science for Executives class.