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Virtual Instructor-Led Training 4 hours

Who should attend AI-3017 Microsoft AI for Business Leaders Course

Microsoft AI for business leaders is designed to help business leaders find the knowledge and resources to adopt AI in their organizations. This training explores planning, strategizing, and scaling AI projects in a responsible way, focusing on use cases, tools, and insights from industry-specific AI success stories such as healthcare, finance, sustainability, retail, and manufacturing.

This course has been developed in a way where instructors can choose which specific industry or industries they want to include as part of the final section, curating each delivery to the specific audience.


Prerequisites for AI-3017 Microsoft AI for Business Leaders Course

Basic understanding of IT concepts. Basic understanding of business concepts.

AI-3017 Microsoft AI for Business Leaders Course Outline

  • What is AI?
  • Foundations of AI
  • Learn the Microsoft AI approach
  • Use AI embedded in everyday copilot applications
  • Use Microsoft Power Platform to bring AI to your business
  • Develop AI solutions with Azure AI Services
  • Create custom AI models with Azure Machine Learning
  • Module assessment
  • Create business value with an AI strategy
  • Discover the characteristics that foster an AI-ready culture
  • Discover the path to AI success
  • Module assessment
  • Prepare for the implications of responsible AI
  • Identify guiding principles for responsible AI
  • Design a system for AI governance
  • Applying systems for AI governance
  • Responsible AI at Microsoft
  • Put responsible AI frameworks in action
  • Module assessment
  • Evaluate and prioritize AI investments
  • Apply a horizon-based framework
  • Establish AI-related roles and responsibilities
  • Empower business users with AI
  • Empower subject matter experts with AI
  • Module assessment
  • AI in life sciences, pharmacology, and healthcare
  • Goals and challenges in life sciences, pharmacology, and healthcare
  • Opportunities for AI in life sciences, pharmacology, and healthcare
  • Microsoft AI for health providers
  • Discover the potential of Microsoft AI to improve patient recovery
  • Module assessment
  • What is AI?
  • Foundations of AI
  • Learn the Microsoft AI approach
  • Use AI embedded in everyday copilot applications
  • Use Microsoft Power Platform to bring AI to your business
  • Develop AI solutions with Azure AI Services
  • Create custom AI models with Azure Machine Learning
  • Module assessment
  • Create business value with an AI strategy
  • Discover the characteristics that foster an AI-ready culture
  • Discover the path to AI success
  • Module assessment
  • Prepare for the implications of responsible AI
  • Identify guiding principles for responsible AI
  • Design a system for AI governance
  • Applying systems for AI governance
  • Responsible AI at Microsoft
  • Put responsible AI frameworks in action
  • Module assessment
  • Evaluate and prioritize AI investments
  • Apply a horizon-based framework
  • Establish AI-related roles and responsibilities
  • Empower business users with AI
  • Empower subject matter experts with AI
  • Module assessment
  • AI in financial services
  • Goals and challenges in financial services
  • Opportunities for AI in financial services organizations
  • Discover how Microsoft AI secures transactions in banking – A Swift success story
  • Discover the potential of Microsoft AI Services in insurance – A Manulife success story
  • Module assessment

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FAQs on AI-3017 Microsoft AI for Business Leaders

This course is designed for business leaders seeking to adopt AI in their organizations. It covers planning, strategizing, and scaling AI projects responsibly, with insights from industry-specific success stories in healthcare, finance, sustainability, retail, and manufacturing.

Participants should have a basic understanding of IT concepts and business concepts. No advanced technical or AI background is required.

The course covers four main areas: leveraging AI tools and resources (including Copilot, Power Platform, Azure AI Services, and Azure Machine Learning), creating business value from AI strategy, embracing responsible AI principles and governance, and scaling AI across the organization.

Yes, the course includes real-world AI success stories from industries such as healthcare, finance, sustainability, retail, and manufacturing. Instructors can customize the final section to focus on industries most relevant to the audience.

Participants will learn guiding principles for responsible AI, how to design and apply AI governance systems, and how Microsoft implements responsible AI frameworks in practice.