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Developing AI Strategy
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Level up your skills and qualifications as a digital native
Teaming up with the best in industry, our Future Skills courses lean into the future of work to deliver the best in structured, mentor-supported, 100% online education.
With 31% of enterprises expected to add AI into their strategy over the next 12 months (Adobe), it’s never been more important to upskill. Today’s neural networks and machine learning algorithms are more likely to drive an autonomous car, analyse property markets, power a chatbot or help with clinical diagnoses and suggest treatments. In fact, the real challenge facing AI isn’t potential applications, it’s getting companies to recognise them.
This industry approved short course, developed with Amazon Web Services, that explores AI's potential to disrupt your business. Master the AI basics, make agile decisions, and get ahead of the curve.
Our Developing AI Strategy course is ideal for:
- Professionals with strategic decision-making abilities who would like to communicate and apply AI learnings to their management style
- Data Analysts and Scientists who want to understand the basics of AI, and how to apply higher-level business thinking to use AI in their projects and roles.
By the end of this course, you’ll understand:
- Artificial Intelligence fundamentals
- Natural language processing
- Frameworks for AI opportunities
- Data and Cloud strategy
- Optimising business case
- Road-map and implementation plan
- Ethics
Developing AI Strategy equips your business with the latest AI thinking. Our industry pros will walk you through the AI fundamentals, you’ll have access to the latest tools from Amazon Web Services, and we’ll help you develop a real-world AI strategy for your organisation. Over eight weeks, you’ll also get to know the full AI stack: from Natural Language Processing and robotics to machine learning and Neural Networks and create an AI business plan for your industry
At RMIT Online, we're committed to supporting your lifelong learning journey. Our flexible learning pathways can be tailored to align with your individual educational goals. When taken in combination with other specific Future Skills short courses, this course is eligible for credit into certain RMIT degree programs, subject to entry requirements. Click here for more information.
Course Overview
Learn more about our Developing AI Strategy course in the video below.
The future of work is really interesting - you can't just learn one skill now and have a career out of that. You need to move and adapt over time so courses like RMIT online are giving the ability to get into those skills really quickly and and fill those gaps and change as needed.
Many of our customers were undertaking digital transformations and I often found myself sitting in meetings with Chief Marketing Officers, Chief, Information Officers, CEOs not really understanding what they were talking about so I really wanted to get a feel for exactly what was going on so that, not only could I lead my team more effectively, but actually could sit in some of these meetings and have a meaningful conversation with some of these clients
Our vision is to build a community of lifelong learners successfully navigating the world of work. We find in addition to our world-class academics, working with companies like Adobe Salesforce realestate.com,
Accenture, really brings relevance in the skills that were taking to our students, in using new technologies and business approaches.
So in terms of the experience of studying online, it was terrific it was flexible it was convenient, the tools were easy to use, the way that courses are structured, the way the contents are delivered gives you the flexibility of effectively logging in and learning on a schedule that suits suits you.
This is a great opportunity to help build those skills that can actually feed our future employee pipeline so we we can actually solve these problems for our clients going forward
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Course Structure
Learn more about Developing AI StrategyModule 1: What is AI?
+- Understand AI and machine learning (ML)
- Explore AI applications, visual, linguistic, and predictive tasks
- Considerations for developing an AI strategy
Module 2: Applying AI
+- Learn AI-powered technology and use cases in the industry
- Examine the role of humans and AI
- Comprehend the benefits and opportunities of AI in business
Module 3: Finding AI and Machine Learning opportunities for your business
+- Explore an AI case study: Amazon
- Generate AI opportunities and ideas for your business
- Identify the people, resources, and project management capabilities required for your AI idea
Module 4: An AI solution for your problem
+- Analyse the ethics of AI and possible solutions to known ethical issues
- Understand the obstacles to AI adoption including sensitivity, quantity, and labelling
- Inspect the power of cloud-based services for AI and machine learning including applications and platforms
Module 5: Select a business opportunity
+- Select a business opportunity to create an AI proof of concept
- Prepare your solution process and roadmap
- Create your AI roadmap
Module 6: What's next?
+- Understanding the future of AI in business
- Complete your final project
Learn with industry experts

General Manager, Versent (Southern region)
Our industry mentors are available to provide 1:1 feedback and guidance on your course work. Our mentors on this course include people like Rhys Evans. Rhys has over 15 years' experience in delivering quality business outcomes with technology. He's been a CTO, a leader at NAB and a seasoned...
Our industry mentors are available to provide 1:1 feedback and guidance on your course work. Our mentors on this course include people like Rhys Evans. Rhys has over 15 years' experience in delivering quality business outcomes with technology. He's been a CTO, a leader at NAB and a seasoned systems integrator with a passion for everything being code. He loves a challenge and is passionate about getting tech projects "done, done!"

Practice Director for Cloud, Versent & AWS APN Cloud Warrior
RMIT Online has built our courses in partnership with industry, providing you with the latest industry insights and best practices from the real world of work. Our subject matter experts on this course include people like Mark Wolfe. Mark is the go-to guy when you need anything code related...
RMIT Online has built our courses in partnership with industry, providing you with the latest industry insights and best practices from the real world of work. Our subject matter experts on this course include people like Mark Wolfe. Mark is the go-to guy when you need anything code related solved. He's been a CTO, part of a start-up, developer and all-round network guru. When he's not designing and building software for telecommunications and IoT industries, he spends his time building his self-driving car or mountain biking.

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Subject Matter Expert
Akshay Kumar (Shay) brings a unique blend of engineering and strategic expertise, complemented by a proven track record of leading critical cloud and network automation initiatives at organisations like Commonwealth Bank, Telstra and Amazon Web Services. With a passion for empowering future leaders, Shay fosters a culture of continuous...
Akshay Kumar (Shay) brings a unique blend of engineering and strategic expertise, complemented by a proven track record of leading critical cloud and network automation initiatives at organisations like Commonwealth Bank, Telstra and Amazon Web Services. With a passion for empowering future leaders, Shay fosters a culture of continuous learning and innovation, equipping students with invaluable knowledge and resources to excel in harnessing AI's transformative power for strategic and innovative purposes.

Expert Industry mentor
Peter is an accomplished professional services and management consulting Director with nearly 20 years’ experience. Peter helps clients solve complex challenges, generate sustainable value, and unlock the value of digital and emerging technologies including AI, Analytics, and Automation.

Expert Industry mentor
Poonam Nair is deeply committed to educating top organisations and startups on the strategic implementation of generative AI. In her role at Microsoft in the Contact Centre group, she plays a key part in driving AI transformation initiatives. Poonam brings a practical understanding of considerations such as the costing...
Poonam Nair is deeply committed to educating top organisations and startups on the strategic implementation of generative AI. In her role at Microsoft in the Contact Centre group, she plays a key part in driving AI transformation initiatives. Poonam brings a practical understanding of considerations such as the costing of large language models, responsible AI governance, proof of concept development, roadmap planning, and best practices for AI delivery and execution. Her genuine passion for innovation using AI positions her as an excellent mentor for those looking to navigate the complexities of an AI course.
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