Practical AI for Business

3 Weeks

Cohort-based Course

Enhance your business productivity and team efficiency with AI in three weeks of hands-on sessions and practical frameworks

Practical AI for Business

3 Weeks

Cohort-based Course

Enhance your business productivity and team efficiency with AI in three weeks of hands-on sessions and practical frameworks

Hosted by

Andrew Sheves

AI innovator, developer and global management consultant

Andrew Sheves

AI innovator, developer and global management consultant

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Course overview

Leverage AI to make you, your team and organization more efficient

2023 marked a pivotal year with AI's rapid advancement, signaling both an enormous opportunity and a significant challenge.

These tools offer unparalleled efficiency, and many firms are already seeing the benefits of these tools, but implementing AI safely, effectively, and with empathy takes planning and thoughtfulness.

These sessions will lead you through a tried and tested approach to understanding AI, learning how to put the tools to work for you and determining how it can benefit your organization, culminating in an actionable roadmap specific to your organization.

We'll cover:

• What AIs are (and aren't) and the differences between the leading models

• Why prompting matters and how to write and apply these effectively

• How to determine the best tool for the job (and why that sometimes means not using AI)

• General and specific business use cases

• How to determine where AI can fit into your workflows most effectively

• Building an implementation roadmap and how to generate buy-in

Everything here is based on the tools and techniques I've used in my own work and shared with others to achieve up to 100x efficiency.

The approach is firmly grounded in best consulting practices, building on my many years as a management consultant, so the focus is on delivering an actionable set of improvements to make you and your team more effective.

If you're looking for practical ways to take advantage of AI to improve your efficiency and effectiveness, this is for you.

Who is this course for

This is for managers who know AI can benefit their work and are looking for a pragmatic, practical place to start.

This is a practical course for action-oriented professionals. There's an emphasis on hands-on experience and building actionable outcomes.

This is not a technical course: we touch on building and training AI but this is for risk and crisis practitioners. No CS degree required.

This is for managers who know AI can benefit their work and are looking for a pragmatic, practical place to start.

This is a practical course for action-oriented professionals. There's an emphasis on hands-on experience and building actionable outcomes.

This is not a technical course: we touch on building and training AI but this is for risk and crisis practitioners. No CS degree required.

What you’ll get out of this course

Understand the basics of AI and the capabilities of common models and tools

We'll lay the foundations by discussing what AI are, what they're not, and looking at the common tools and models that you may encounter to understand their capabilities and how to choose the right tool for the job.

Learn how to use AI effectively, write effective prompts, and select the right model and tool for the job.

We'll spend a lot of time hands-on with various AI tools putting them to work for a series of common day-to-day business applications and risk-and-crisis specific tasks to ensure that you're comfortable using these tools and getting the most out of them.

Identify areas where AI can benefit your team and operations.

incorporating AI into your workflows can create enormous benefits of up to 100X improvement. So we'll ensure that you've been able to identify areas where AI can benefit your operations using our tried and tested needs assessment process.

Build an organization-specific roadmap for AI implementation.

The final deliverable is an organization-specific roadmap that will prioritize the actions to take, identify how you will implement AI across your organization, and help identify where roadblocks might appear and how to navigate those to maximize your chance of success.

What’s included

Live sessions

Learn directly from Andrew Sheves in a real-time, interactive format.

Lifetime access

Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.

Community of peers

Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.

Certificate of completion

Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.

Maven Guarantee

This course is backed by the Maven Guarantee. Students are eligible for a full refund up until the halfway point of the course.

Course syllabus

7 live sessions • 4 lessons • 3 projects

Week 1

Apr 7—Apr 13

🤖 Week 1 - AI basics

1 item

Apr

Live Session 1 - Kick Off and AI Fundamentals

Mon 4/74:30 PM—6:00 PM (UTC)

Before and After Comparison 1

1 item

Apr

Live Session 2 - AI Basics (Practical)

Wed 4/94:30 PM—6:00 PM (UTC)

Week 2

Apr 14—Apr 20

🧰 Week 2 - AI in the Workplace

1 item

Apr

Live Session 3 - AI for Business

Mon 4/144:30 PM—6:00 PM (UTC)

Before and After Comparison 2

1 item

Apr

Live Session 4 - AI for Your Business

Wed 4/164:30 PM—6:00 PM (UTC)

Week 3

Apr 21—Apr 25

📝 Week 3 - Where Can AI Work for You

1 item

Apr

Live Session 5 - Where can AI assist your team

Mon 4/214:30 PM—6:00 PM (UTC)

Needs Assessment Worksheet DRAFT

1 item

Apr

Live Session 6 - Course Wrap Up

Wed 4/234:30 PM—6:00 PM (UTC)

Needs Assessment Worksheet Finalization

1 item

Post-course

May

✅ One Month Check-In

Tue 5/204:30 PM—5:30 PM (UTC)

Reviews of previous sessions

I needed a tailored, practical program to integrate AI into our global security operations. Andrew delivered a series of informative and engaging workshops sharing his expertise and deep knowledge of AI. These were instrumental in the benefits we have seen applying AI and I highly recommend Andrew to anyone looking to implement AI in their work.

Andrew M

Director of the Global Safety and Security Department (GSSD) at Chemonics

An outstanding presentation on a highly relevant topic that is often misunderstood. Thank you for making the subject matter concrete, understandable, and actionable for security professionals. Changed my perception on AI and opened up a whole new line of thinking/opportunities.

John K

Senior Security and Risk Manager (GSX Attendee)

Your instructor

Andrew Sheves

AI innovator, developer and experienced management consultant

Andrew Sheves is the founder of Decis Intelligence, pioneering the application of AI in geopolitical analysis and security risk management. As the co-author of the first paper on AI applications in Security Risk Management, he bridges the gap between traditional processes and emerging technologies.

With over two decades of experience advising organizations ranging from Fortune Five companies to NGOs, and the US Department of Defense, Sheves specializes in implementing technology-forward risk solutions. He has guided dozens of organizations through their AI transformation.

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