AI Strategy for Public-Sector Organisations

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Senior management is being asked to approve AI initiatives without a clear basis for judging them. This program provides that basis: what current AI genuinely does, where it fits an organisation’s value chain, how to evaluate build, buy and adopt options under public procurement rules, and how to sequence a rollout that survives budget cycles and staff transfers.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

• Chief Engineers and General Managers
• Project Directors
• Directors and heads of wing
• Senior management with approval authority over technology spend

DURATION AND FORMAT

1 day (7 contact hours), executive format

PREREQUISITE

None. AI for Smart Office is helpful but not required.

COURSE OUTLINE

1. Capability, not hype what current AI reliably does and where it fails
2. Mapping AI to the organisation’s value chain: where the return actually is
3. Build, buy or adopt realistic options for a public-sector body
4. Cost, procurement and vendor evaluation under public procurement rules
5. Sequencing a rollout that survives budget cycles and officer transfers
6. Measuring return in time saved, quality improved and risk reduced

WHAT YOU WILL BE ABLE TO DO

• Evaluate an AI proposal on its merits rather than its marketing
• Identify the two or three functions in your wing where AI would pay for itself
• Ask vendors the questions that separate capability from claims
• Set measurable adoption targets that can be reported upward

YOU LEAVE WITH

A one-page AI opportunity assessment for the participant’s own wing or project.