AI Enabled Business Leadership: Tackling cost and risk strategically
Ian Johns
Former Chief Architect at KCL
Strategically remove the cost and risk of tech sprawl and accelerate AI adoption
Modern enterprises are trapped in an accidental architecture of legacy systems that drain time and money and expose cyber-risks. When leadership demands AI transformation, teams face an overwhelming paralysis—they simply do not know where to start.
This course transforms you into a high-value leader possessing the rare strategic vision to decide what to change, when, and why.
You'll learn to harness the zero-code power of google Labs to very rapidly look at an organisation objectively, diagnose precisely where its architecture is failing and where waste can be eliminated. You will develop simple, analytical AI agents to dynamically segment and prioritise suppliers and technologies to evolve the ecosystem harmoniously, and deploy agents to bring boards and teams with you.
Crucially you will also develop the evaluation skills needed to separate AI hype from actual business utility and isolate low-risk, high-impact business domains, mapping out controlled tech experiments that prove value before scaling.
What you’ll learn
How to reinvent yourself from technical firefighter to high impact strategic leader.
Use google Labs to define your domains, catalogue your inventory and assess the landscape.
Rapidly create business capability and technology maps to identify redundancy, duplication and waste at a glance.
Map income and customer journeys directly to technology dependencies.
Use zero-code tech from google Labs to build user-facing apps and APIs to collect information about the landscape and agree targets.
Assess technical health and business value for each domain.
Define target states while avoiding heavy upfront planning.
Use google Labs to identify the behavioural drivers within the organisation and map them against your strategic metamodel
Use the Gartner TIME framework to classify the landscape and guide decision makers
Build AI agents for personalised stakeholder communications
Learn directly from Ian
Ian Johns
Founder @ SentientConsulting & Ex Chief Architect @ KCL
Who this course is for
Tech Firefighters drowning in software, legacy platforms and shadow IT and lacking the time and automated tools to map it all out manually.
Constrained Business Leaders who need tech that works for their teams at scale but lack the budget for expensive consultants.
Consulting Architects and PMs ready to skip the manual discovery phase and spreadsheets and get straight to client value.
What's included
Live sessions
Learn directly from Ian Johns 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.
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Course syllabus
Week 1
Jul
24
AI driven discovery
Week 2
Jul
29
Agent driven maturity assessments
Jul
31
Business impact and board alignment
Schedule
Live sessions
3 hrs
Each session involves the cohort building together the AI needed for discovery, assessment and impact. Each session is recorded and all prompts shared so that you can rebuild and refine your AI after the session. Everything you build, you keep and get value from day 0.
Fri, Jul 24
3:00 PM—4:00 PM (UTC)
Wed, Jul 29
3:00 PM—4:00 PM (UTC)
Fri, Jul 31
3:00 PM—4:00 PM (UTC)
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