Course Objective & Scope
Executive AI decisions often stall for months due to competing priorities across business units, IT, information security and finance. Keeping theory to a minimum, this intensive workshop is designed to resolve one to three live AI decisions currently sitting on leadership's desk using structured decision analysis tools.
Decision briefs and options are gathered beforehand; during the session the team works through trade-off matrices, pre-mortem risk analysis and guardrail conditions. Participants leave with signed-off Decision Records, clear owners and defined review triggers.
Who Should Attend?
- CEOs, executive committee members and business unit VPs
- Decision-makers at CIO, CTO, CDO, CISO and CFO level
- Members of the AI Steering Committee
- Project sponsors facing a critical AI investment, vendor or architecture decision
Key Takeaways
- Decompose stalled AI investment, architectural or sourcing dilemmas into clear options and criteria
- Score trade-offs between speed to value, security, compliance and cost transparently
- Run a pre-mortem analysis to surface failure modes and early warning triggers
- Distinguish reversible (two-way door) from irreversible decisions to accelerate governance
- Produce a formal AI Decision Record with assigned owners, budget bounds and review dates
Curriculum
Decision Framing: Dilemmas and the Option Space
- Clarifying the decision on the table: one-way door or two-way door?
- Defining at least three viable options including the cost of inaction
- Separating verified facts from untested assumptions
Multi-Dimensional Trade-Off Analysis
- Weighting value, speed to market, TCO, data/regulatory risk and technical debt
- Evidence-based negotiation across business, IT, security and finance viewpoints
- Separating non-negotiable red lines from manageable risks
Pre-Mortem and Guardrail Design
- Running a pre-mortem: "If this decision failed 12 months from now, why did it happen?"
- Setting kill-switch thresholds, budget caps and risk ceilings
- Locking in human oversight and audit conditions
Decision Record and 30-Day Execution Triggers
- Documenting the chosen option, rationale and rejected alternatives
- Assigning the single directly responsible individual (DRI), funding and 30/60-day check-ins
- Aligning the stakeholder communication message
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