Course Content
01Module 1: Develop the Value Architect role
Establish the role's responsibility at the intersection of business, technology, and people, then create a personal capability roadmap.
- Role purpose
- ART context
- Business and AI fluency
- Facilitation
- Personal roadmap
02Module 2: Audit and activate existing AI value
Use the Value Maximizer playbook to audit, activate, optimize, and centralize capabilities already available in the organization.
- Audit
- Activate
- Optimize
- Centralize
- Latent tool value
- Quick wins
03Module 3: Translate AI trade-offs into strategy
Discuss RAG, fine-tuning, agents, data, cost, uncertainty, and operational implications in clear business terms.
- AI solution patterns
- RAG
- Fine-tuning
- Agents
- Cost and risk trade-offs
04Module 4: Lifecycle: Sense
Turn signals and mandates into a clearly bounded opportunity with stakeholders, desired outcomes, and initial constraints.
- Opportunity signals
- Stakeholders
- Problem framing
- Desired outcomes
- Constraints
05Module 5: Lifecycle: Discover
Use evidence, feasibility filters, risk discovery, and alignment techniques to decide whether and how to proceed.
- Discovery
- Feasibility filters
- Stakeholder alignment
- Conflict management
- Risk
- Investment case
06Module 6: Lifecycle: Design
Design the human-AI workflow, controls, data needs, feedback loops, and cross-functional Value Blueprint.
- Human-AI workflow
- Value Blueprint
- Responsible AI
- Decision rights
- Feedback loops
- Readiness
07Module 7: Lifecycle: Deliver
Use iterative delivery, quick wins, validation, and production-readiness evidence to move beyond proof of concept.
- Iterative delivery
- Quick wins
- Validation
- Production readiness
- Adaptive planning
08Module 8: Measure value realization
Connect technical and adoption signals to business outcomes and use evidence to guide investment decisions.
- Outcome measures
- Adoption
- Value realization
- Governance reviews
- Continue, adapt, or stop
09Module 9: Amplify the value story
Translate metrics and lessons into a credible executive narrative that supports learning, adoption, and next-round decisions.
- AI-Powered Story Amplifier
- Executive narrative
- Evidence
- Change communication
- Scaling