The AI Decision Playbook: A Five-Step Framework for Business Teams

Make confident, high stakes AI calls—without an MBA or computer science degree. In this course, Addo CEO Dr. Ayesha Khanna teaches business professionals how to evaluate AI initiatives with clarity and conviction. Whether you’re green lighting a partnership, scoping a product launch, or sizing a new market, you can use her repeatable, no-jargon framework to separate signal from hype and align AI bets to your strategy, customers, and culture.

Learning objectives
Identify three strategic alignment questions that help determine whether an AI initiative supports an organization’s mission and long-term vision.
Compare two ways an AI solution can create competitive differentiation and explain which offers a stronger moat in a given scenario.
Analyze a proposed AI initiative to determine at least two potential legal or reputational risks and suggest a mitigation strategy for each.
Describe two cultural or team-related impacts of introducing an AI solution and outline a change-management approach to address them.
Calculate whether the projected return on an AI investment justifies the estimated costs, including at least one hidden cost such as integration or training.