Business Impact Of AI
This course starts in April 2023 on Zoom.
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Course Description & Objectives
Recently, especially after the invasion of ChatGPT, adopting and successfully using AI capabilities has become a requirement for a company’s competitive advantage. One of the biggest challenges in accomplishing this goal is helping the key business decision-makers to recognize the value creation potential of AI and start exploring it. This short course will help them achieve this objective in four one-hour-long lectures by answering the critical questions about the potential business benefits from AI:
The first question: What is AI?
Includes: explaining the key AI technologies in plain English, focusing on their capabilities of solving real-world problems, and clarifying appropriate AI solutions to business problems. The key message is: AI is NOT rocket science and can be practiced and used in any business. At the same time, it is not as simple as using ChatGPT.
The second question: What are the benefits of investing in AI?
Includes: clarifying the sources of AI competitive advantage and focusing on the challenges and issues in applying AI in business. The key message is: companies that have appropriately used AI are more PROFITABLE.
The third question: Is it challenging to apply AI?
Includes: demonstrating the power of AI with appropriate business applications and recommends how to identify proper applications of AI in your business. Some challenges in applying ChatGPT will be discussed as well. The key message is: AI has been successfully applied in many use cases that can be leveraged to solve your business problems.
The fourth question: How to begin applying AI?
Includes: clarifying the needed infrastructure and skillset for a successful introduction of AI into a business and suggesting a roadmap for doing it. The key message is: the path towards integrating AI into a business is well defined and tested at many companies.
The course gives the participants the needed information for making decisions about the future role of AI in their businesses.
This unique course explains the practical approach of applying AI and is prepared by a leading international expert in this area based on his experience with several large US companies. The course is based on his know-how in introducing AI in several businesses and is described in his book “Applying Data Science: How to Create Value with Artificial Intelligence,” This offers an advantage the participants will not find anywhere else.
There are no special technical or programming requirements for participants to take this course.
Who is this course for?
Senior leaders, including C-suite executives overseeing the integration of AI into their organization’s business strategy
Senior managers and executives involved with managing teams and AI-driven projects
Functional Business Heads interested in exploring AI opportunities across business functions
Course Structure
The course includes four lectures of around 60 minutes each. Lecture 1, “Introduction to AI,” is focused on presenting the key AI types, technologies, and business solutions it delivers. Lecture 2, “Why invest in AI?” clarifies AI’s competitive advantage and justifies investing in this technology, as well as discussing how to maximize the return of your investment. Lecture 3, “Key application areas of AI,” illustrates this technology’s powerful potential with several application areas in the industry and business. Lecture 4, “Key steps for a successful introduction of AI in an organization,” describes the roadmap for successfully introducing AI into your organization.
Impact Lecture 1: Introduction to AI
Impact Lecture 2: Why invest in AI?
Impact Lecture 3: Key application areas of AI
Impact Lecture 4: Key steps for a successful introduction of AI in an organization
Instructor
Arthur Kordon, Ph.D.
CEO of Kordon Consulting LLC
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
Dr. Kordon is an internationally recognized expert in the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to industry. His clients include large and small businesses and consulting companies in the United States, Japan, South Korea, Germany, Belgium, and Bulgaria. His current projects solve business problems in developing a digital brain of the enterprise, predictive maintenance, smart energy cost reduction analysis, commodity price forecasting, and office space optimization. He also advises his clients on how to integrate AI into their organizations and trains their specialists.
In his previous position as Scientific and Analytics Leader of the Artificial Intelligence Group at Dow Chemical – America’s largest chemical company, Dr. Kordon introduced several new AI-based solutions. They have improved and optimized manufacturing processes with enormous economic effect. He has the US and worldwide patent and over 70 publications in the most prestigious journals and conferences in applied AI systems. In addition to his current book, he is the author of the book “Applying Computational Intelligence,” published by Springer and co-author of the book “Applying Data Mining for Business Forecasting,” published by the SAS Institute. His latest book in Bulgarian, “Перспективата Изкуствен Интелект“ is expected to be published in the next couple of months. It can be used as a general introduction to AI.
He knows and has an impressive record of how companies can create value with AI.