Enterprise Generative AI Adoption Training Course

Duration 5 days 10 modules · 33 contact hours
Level Intermediate Certificate on completion
Who attends Digital Transformation Leaders, Chief Information Officers and IT Directors and others
Fee from USD 1,100 KSh 95,000 for Kenyan organisations
Where 52 cities + online See dates by city
Next start 16 Nov 2026 Course code SD-AI-063

Before you join: Participants should understand their organisation’s core business processes, technology decision-making, and data or digital change priorities.

Dates & prices

Two start dates a month in every city, and live online on weekdays or weekends. Fees are per participant; classroom fees include tuition, materials, lunch and refreshments, and the certificate.

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Course overview

Enterprise generative AI programmes often begin with promising demonstrations but stall before production. Teams may lack a shared method for selecting use cases, protecting sensitive data, assigning decision rights, testing model outputs, and measuring business results. The result can be duplicated experimentation, unapproved tool use, supplier dependency, unreliable outputs, and weak accountability for risk. Organisations need an operating model that turns generative AI from isolated pilots into governed, measurable services.

This course equips participants to design that operating model. Participants assess business opportunities, prioritise use cases with value and feasibility criteria, define target architecture and data controls, and apply governance structures suited to generative AI. The syllabus addresses model risk, security threats, legal and procurement considerations, human oversight, product delivery, workforce adoption, and performance measurement. Participants work with recognised approaches including NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, OWASP LLM Top 10, RACI, value cases, risk registers, and stage-gate delivery controls.

Teaching combines short instructor briefings with realistic cases from banking, public services, healthcare, customer operations, and internal knowledge management. Group work examines choices such as building versus buying, centralising versus federating AI teams, approving high-risk use cases, and responding to harmful model outputs. Participants leave with an enterprise generative AI adoption blueprint: a structured set of reusable templates covering use-case prioritisation, governance, operating roles, risk controls, delivery stages, measures, and a 90-day action plan.

The course is designed for leaders and specialists responsible for bringing generative AI into business processes rather than merely using chat tools. It is particularly relevant where data sensitivity, regulation, service quality, or operational resilience require disciplined adoption decisions.

What you will be able to do

  • Assess generative AI opportunities using a value, feasibility and risk scoring model
  • Prioritise enterprise use cases through a structured portfolio decision process
  • Design an operating model covering decision rights, roles, controls and service ownership
  • Apply NIST AI RMF and ISO/IEC 42001 concepts to generative AI governance
  • Define data, security and model-risk controls for production generative AI services
  • Compare build, buy and partner options using total cost, capability and risk criteria
  • Establish stage gates, testing evidence and human oversight for AI product delivery
  • Produce a 90-day enterprise generative AI adoption plan with measurable outcomes

Benefits of attending

For you

  • Gain a repeatable method for evaluating generative AI proposals beyond demonstrations
  • Build confidence challenging vendors, technical teams and business sponsors with informed questions
  • Create governance artefacts suitable for senior risk, technology and investment committees
  • Develop practical judgement on where human review remains necessary
  • Leave with a structured plan for leading an enterprise AI adoption initiative

For your organisation

  • Reduces unapproved generative AI use through clear service, data and approval controls
  • Improves investment choices by ranking use cases on value, feasibility and risk
  • Establishes accountable ownership across business, technology, risk and legal functions
  • Shortens pilot-to-production decisions through defined delivery gates and evidence requirements
  • Creates auditable governance materials for regulators, internal audit and executive oversight

Course modules

10 modules over 5 days

Participants can frame generative AI adoption around business value, strategic fit and accountable sponsorship.

  • Generative AI capability patterns: generation, summarisation, extraction, reasoning, and agents
  • Business value hypotheses linked to revenue, service quality, risk, and cost
  • Strategic alignment using OKRs, value streams, and enterprise priorities
  • AI ambition statements distinguishing experimentation, adoption, transformation, and platform investment
  • Executive sponsorship roles, investment decisions, and escalation responsibilities
  • Portfolio boundaries separating personal productivity tools from enterprise AI services

Participants can identify, assess and rank generative AI use cases using explicit decision criteria.

  • Use-case canvases capturing users, decisions, workflows, data, and expected outcomes
  • Jobs-to-be-Done analysis for employee, customer, and operational pain points
  • Value-effort-risk scoring matrix for initial opportunity screening
  • Prioritisation criteria covering benefit, feasibility, control maturity, and strategic importance
  • Process decomposition identifies task steps suitable for augmentation or automation
  • Dependency mapping exposes data, integration, policy, and ownership constraints

Participants can define the architectural and data requirements for enterprise generative AI services.

  • Reference architecture: user interface, orchestration, models, retrieval, tools, and monitoring
  • Retrieval-augmented generation design using approved enterprise knowledge sources
  • Data classification rules for public, internal, confidential, and restricted information
  • Identity and access management controls for prompts, documents, and outputs
  • API integration patterns connecting generative AI services to business systems
  • Model selection criteria covering capability, latency, context limits, hosting, and cost

Participants can identify generative AI risks and specify proportionate preventive and detective controls.

  • NIST AI RMF functions: Govern, Map, Measure, and Manage
  • OWASP LLM Top 10 threats and mitigation approaches
  • Prompt injection defences using instruction hierarchy, isolation, and tool permissions
  • Output controls for hallucination, harmful content, bias, and unsupported claims
  • Threat modelling identifies assets, attack paths, controls, and residual risk
  • Evaluation datasets test accuracy, safety, security, and domain-specific performance

Participants can establish governance structures, policies and approval routes for generative AI adoption.

  • ISO/IEC 42001 management-system concepts applied to AI accountability
  • RACI matrices assign ownership for use cases, models, data, and controls
  • Risk-tiering criteria distinguish low, moderate, high, and prohibited uses
  • AI policy clauses address acceptable use, data handling, disclosure, and monitoring
  • Approval workflows connect business cases, risk reviews, architecture, and legal decisions
  • Assurance evidence includes testing records, decisions, exceptions, and incident logs

Participants can design a practical operating model for enterprise generative AI services.

  • Centralised, federated, and hybrid AI operating-model archetypes compared
  • Product operating model defines persistent teams, backlogs, funding, and accountability
  • Shared AI platform services cover model access, guardrails, evaluation, and support
  • Communities of practice coordinate standards, reusable assets, and practitioner learning
  • Service catalogue defines approved models, capabilities, support levels, and pricing
  • Control ownership separates first-line delivery from independent oversight functions

Participants can evaluate sourcing options and manage third-party generative AI dependencies.

  • Build-buy-partner analysis compares differentiation, speed, capability, control, and cost
  • Total cost of ownership includes licences, integration, monitoring, support, and change
  • Vendor due diligence assesses data use, model hosting, security, resilience, and exit
  • Contract clauses address intellectual property, audit rights, incident notification, and liability
  • Model provider concentration risk assessed through substitution and contingency options
  • Proof-of-value criteria establish evidence before procurement scale commitments

Participants can apply delivery stages and quality controls from discovery through live operation.

  • Stage-gate delivery model from discovery through retirement and decommissioning
  • Product requirements specify users, tasks, constraints, failure modes, and acceptance criteria
  • Human-in-the-loop design sets review thresholds, authority, and override procedures
  • Red-team testing probes misuse, jailbreaks, data leakage, and unsafe tool actions
  • Model cards document intended use, limitations, evaluation results, and known risks
  • Production monitoring tracks quality drift, incidents, usage patterns, and costs

Participants can measure adoption outcomes and plan workforce change for generative AI services.

  • Benefits-realisation maps connect AI outputs to operational and financial measures
  • Baseline measures capture cycle time, quality, cost, satisfaction, and risk
  • Balanced scorecards track value, adoption, control performance, and technical reliability
  • Change impact assessment identifies altered tasks, roles, skills, and decision rights
  • Training pathways distinguish general users, supervisors, developers, and risk owners
  • Communication plans explain approved uses, limitations, escalation channels, and accountability

Participants can assemble a sequenced adoption roadmap with owners, controls, investments and measures.

  • Roadmap sequencing balances quick wins, platform foundations, controls, and capability building
  • Ninety-day plan assigns actions, owners, dependencies, milestones, and decisions
  • Funding models compare project budgets, product funding, and shared-service charging
  • Executive dashboard presents portfolio value, risk status, adoption, and delivery progress
  • Decision log records assumptions, approvals, exceptions, and accountable decision-makers
  • Application plan identifies immediate actions for participants' organisational priorities

Exercises and examples are adapted to each cohort's sectors and roles.

What you take back to work

  1. Generative AI use-case prioritisation matrix
  2. Enterprise AI operating model blueprint
  3. Generative AI governance RACI template
  4. AI risk and control register
  5. Build-buy-partner evaluation scorecard
  6. 90-day AI adoption action plan

Who should attend

  • Digital Transformation Leaders — responsible for converting AI priorities into funded delivery plans
  • Chief Information Officers and IT Directors — accountable for enterprise architecture, security and technology governance
  • Data and AI Leaders — designing shared services, standards and model delivery processes
  • Risk, Compliance and Internal Audit Managers — establishing proportionate controls and assurance evidence
  • Product Managers and Business Process Owners — sponsoring AI use cases with measurable service outcomes
  • Procurement and Vendor Management Leaders — assessing model providers, contracts and third-party dependencies

Skills and tools covered

AI operating model designUse-case portfolio managementGenerative AI governanceModel risk controlsAI product deliveryAdoption roadmap planning

Tools and standards

NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, OWASP LLM Top 10, RACI

How the course runs

Training methodology

The course uses short briefings to introduce operating-model methods, standards and decision tools, followed by instructor-led case analysis. Participants examine realistic enterprise scenarios involving customer service, internal knowledge search, document processing, software development and regulated decisions. Group exercises apply use-case scoring, RACI design, risk assessment, vendor evaluation and delivery-gate methods. Simulations test responses to model failures, data exposure and control challenges. Each participant develops an application plan based on an organisational priority or representative case.

Requirements and prerequisites

Participants should understand their organisation’s core business processes, technology decision-making, and data or digital change priorities. Experience managing projects, products, risk, operations, technology, procurement, or transformation is useful. Familiarity with common generative AI tools and basic terms such as prompts, large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, and APIs will help, but technical depth is not assumed. Programming, data science, model training, mathematics, cloud engineering, and prior AI governance experience are not required. Participants should bring a current or proposed organisational use case to inform their course work.

A typical training day

08:30 – 10:30First session
10:30 – 10:45Refreshment break
10:45 – 12:30Second session
12:30 – 13:30Lunch and networking
13:30 – 15:00Third session
15:00 – 15:15Refreshment break
15:15 – 16:30Workshop and daily review

Live online deliveries follow the same structure in East Africa Time, with shorter screen blocks and longer breaks.

What the fee includes

  • Instruction by a practitioner facilitator
  • Full course workbook and materials
  • Exercise files, templates and case studies
  • Refreshments and lunch on classroom deliveries
  • Certificate of completion
  • Post-course application plan

Frequently asked questions

You should understand basic business processes and have experience in a technology, data, risk, product, procurement, operations, or transformation role. You do not need programming, data science, model training, or advanced technical knowledge.

Bring a current or proposed generative AI use case, business process issue, or adoption challenge if you can. Course templates and case materials are provided, and a laptop is useful for working with planning documents.

It suits people responsible for deciding, governing, funding, designing, procuring, or delivering enterprise generative AI services. It is particularly useful for cross-functional teams involving business, technology, data, risk, legal, security, and procurement.

This course focuses on enterprise adoption decisions, governance, operating models, risk controls, sourcing and delivery management. It does not teach participants to train foundation models or develop production code.

Participants can use the templates to assess proposed use cases, prepare governance decisions, define ownership, review suppliers, and plan controlled rollout. The 90-day action plan provides a practical starting point for stakeholder discussions after the course.

The five days contain ten modules covering strategy, use cases, architecture, risk, governance, operating models, sourcing, delivery, change and roadmap planning. Each training day runs from 08:30 to 16:30 and provides about 6.5 contact hours, with time for case work and application planning.

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