Leaders in a rapidly evolving technological landscape know adaptation is critical for organizational success. However, digital transformation initiatives can easily drift off-track. Aligning strategy and technology is exceptionally difficult, especially for established companies in mature industries. This risks missed opportunities and competitive disadvantage.

Leading Digital Transformation for AI is designed to help executives and managers overcome these challenges and successfully navigate change. Bringing an innovation lens to digital transformation, you'll learn to encourage a culture of creative experimentation and rally your team around a shared vision for the future. Working with top Ivey faculty and peers from across industries, you will develop a deep understanding of the trends, strategies, and best practices needed to successfully drive digital change, boost growth, and future-proof your organization for any new technology.

Who Should Attend

Leading Digital Transformation for AI is designed for managers, directors, VPs, and C-suite executives in any industry who will play a role in driving digital change. The program is ideal for established leaders responsible for designing products and services, people leaders who manage change in technology and processes, and high-potential emerging leaders who will innovate new ways of doing business.

What You'll Learn

Advancing your tech knowledge

• Elevate your understanding of how AI is transforming organizations.
• Identify how digitalization transforms organizational functions, industries, business models, and the work landscape to forecast impacts on your organization.
• Explore the link between digital transformation and innovation strategies.

Creating the conditions for change

• Develop effective habits to critically examine and reevaluate business processes through an AI innovation lens.
• Assess your organizational readiness for AI change — and plan strategies to prepare for success.
• Define and measure key success factors in innovation. Map out–and predict–how successful products and services diffuse into the market.
• Encourage a culture of innovation and experimentation within your team or organization.

Navigating pitfalls and resistors

• Connect investments in AI technology to business strategy and clearly explain why innovation matters.
• Recognize prime opportunities for digital innovation and anticipate challenges in implementation. Unlearn common management reflexes that impede sustainable change.
• Balance long-term innovation with immediate operational priorities and business constraints.
• Plan a strategy to solve AI adoption problems in your organization.

Leading digital transformation with an innovation lens

• Explore real-world examples of organizations that successfully (and unsuccessfully) integrated technology solutions into their products, services, and processes.
• Simulate the digital transformation process and apply design thinking principles to challenges.
• Manage the AI change process and build consensus among interest groups.