Core IT🎯 Leadership & StrategyLearnAspire Certified

AI Strategy for IT Leaders: Build the 18-Month Roadmap Your Board Will Fund

“Stop briefing the board on AI. Start funding it.”

Produce a board-ready AI investment roadmap — complete with Capability Maturity Scores, NPV-range ROI models, a stage-gated pilot sequencing plan, and a vendor scorecard — in six weeks, not six months.

Intermediate6h6 modules23 slides18 exercises24 quiz Qs✓ Verified Apr 2026
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  • ✓6 modules of content
  • ✓23 concept slides
  • ✓18 practical exercises
  • ✓24 quiz questions
  • ✓Capstone project
  • ✓LearnAspire certificate

Learning Outcomes

What you'll learn

→You will be able to score your organization's AI capability maturity across five dimensions — data infrastructure, talent, governance, integration, and executive alignment — using the AIMS (AI Investment Maturity Score) framework, producing a numeric baseline that positions you against financial services peer cohorts and directly determines which use cases are fundable in the next 18 months.
→You will be able to build an NPV-range ROI model for any AI use case that isolates AI's incremental contribution from existing analytics and automation spend, names the three contested assumptions a CFO will challenge, and provides documented defensible ranges for each — without delegating the financial modeling to a consultant.
→You will be able to construct a stage-gated pilot-to-production sequencing model that maps each AI initiative to a maturity score threshold, assigns go/no-go criteria at each gate, and produces a funding release schedule your CFO can tie to measurable business outcomes rather than technology milestones.
→You will be able to apply a weighted vendor evaluation scorecard — with criteria spanning integration fit, regulatory compliance posture, total cost of ownership over 36 months, and exit risk — to any AI vendor pitch, producing a scored recommendation your procurement and legal teams can act on directly.
→You will be able to assemble a board-ready 18-month AI investment roadmap deck — including maturity scores, prioritized use-case register, stage-gated sequencing timeline, ROI projections, governance framework, and risk register — that pre-answers the capital, compliance, and organizational questions your CFO and board counsel will raise before they raise them.

The day after you finish

The day after completing this course, you will open your organization's next capital planning session with a completed AI Capability Maturity Score across five dimensions, a prioritized use-case register with NPV-range estimates and time-to-value classifications, and a stage-gated 18-month sequencing model — and field CFO challenges on ROI assumptions, displacement versus augmentation splits, and governance readiness using documented, defensible responses built into the framework, not improvised in the room.

Who this is for

  • Primary: CIO or VP of Digital Transformation at a mid-to-large enterprise ($500M–$5B revenue) with an active AI investment mandate and a capital allocation deadline within one quarter
  • Secondary: Chief Digital Officer or Chief Data Officer responsible for translating AI ambition into funded programs without a clear sequencing or ROI model
  • Tertiary: CFO, Chief Risk Officer, or non-executive board director who will scrutinise the AI roadmap and needs to understand the scoring and sequencing logic behind it

Prerequisites

  • Active ownership of an IT or digital transformation portfolio — this course operates at investment decision level, not implementation level
  • Familiarity with enterprise budgeting cycles, capital allocation processes, and board reporting cadences — the course assumes you already defend technology spend to a CFO or board

Curriculum

6 modules · full breakdown

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Capstone Project

The Vantara AI Investment Roadmap: A Board-Ready 18-Month Strategy Deck

You will complete and present a fully populated 18-month AI investment roadmap deck using the provided board template, built entirely around Vantara Financial Group's actual constraints: a 2014-vintage core banking system, a $15M proposed AI budget competing against cybersecurity and cloud modernization, three business units with conflicting priorities, and a CFO who has formally categorized AI as a cost center. The deck will incorporate your AIMS scores from Module 1, your prioritized use-case register and ROI models from Module 2, your stage-gated sequencing plan from Module 3, your vendor evaluation scorecard and recommendation from Module 4, your governance framework and risk register from Module 5 — assembled into a single coherent investment thesis with an executive summary calibrated for a non-executive director audience. The artifact is graded against a scored rubric modeled on CFO and board counsel review standards, with written feedback on strategic coherence, financial defensibility, and governance completeness.

What you'll deliver

A 20–24 slide board-ready AI investment roadmap deck in the provided LearnAspire board template, containing: AIMS baseline scores with peer benchmarks, a prioritized AI use-case register with NPV ranges and time-to-value classifications, a stage-gated 18-month Gantt-style sequencing timeline with gate criteria and funding release triggers, a vendor evaluation scorecard for the top two AI use cases, an AI governance framework with RACI, escalation paths, and regulatory alignment, a risk register addressing capital, compliance, and organizational risk with mitigation postures, and a one-page executive summary written for a board audience without technical context.

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