CIO in the AI World: Advanced

You completed the Foundation course. You know the landscape — where the money is, what's broken, and what AI makes possible.

This course is different. We start where most CIO courses never go: strategy and communication. Before you build anything, you need to connect every IT project to a business outcome. Before you lead a transformation, you need to learn to speak the language of the board, the CFO, and the team that has to execute it.

Then we get into execution — with the same hands-on approach: short lectures, working demos, your data, your situation.

Who this course is for:

You've completed the Foundation course (or you already understand the AI landscape) and you're ready to move from "I understand what's possible" to "I have a plan and the skills to execute it." This course turns technical awareness into leadership action.

What you'll learn:

Phase 1 — Strategy

• Lecture 1: From Mission to IT Strategy — Translate your company mission into a strategic IT portfolio with guardrails on spend

Phase 2 — Communication

• Lecture 9: The CIO as Communicator — Board presentations, CFO conversations, executive presence, and crisis communication

Phase 3 — Execution

• Lecture 10: Build vs Buy Just Changed — The new decision framework when AI collapsed development costs

• Lecture 11: Leading Teams Through AI Disruption — The human side of transformation

• Lecture 12: AI Governance and IP Protection — A governance framework in three two-week sprints

• Lecture 13: Your 90-Day AI Leadership Roadmap — Week by week, milestone by milestone

• Lecture 14: Building Your AI-Era IT Team — The org chart just changed

• Lecture 15: AI Tools, Dependency, and Vendor Risk — How to adopt AI without getting locked in

What you'll build:

• A strategy cascade — from company mission to IT projects, with orphan detection and gap analysis

• A communication toolkit — AI rewrites your jargon-heavy updates for the board, CFO, and team

• A build vs buy dashboard — 3-year TCO analysis with decision matrix

• A skills gap analyzer — heatmap of your team's AI readiness with personalized development plans

• An AI governance dashboard — tool inventory, shadow AI detection, auto-generated policies

• An interactive 90-day roadmap — Gantt timeline with milestones, dependencies, and budget tracking

• A team transformation plan — current vs future org chart with cost savings and email triage demo

• A vendor risk dashboard — radar charts, vendor-down simulations, contract clause recommendations

All demos work out of the box with sample data from a fictional company (Meridian Engineering, $180M revenue, 600 employees). Run each demo first with the test data to see how it works, then replace with your own data and run it again for your actual situation.

The complete student experience:

1. Watch each lecture — focused, under 15 minutes, with live demo walkthroughs

2. Run each demo yourself — paste one prompt into Claude Code, get a working too

3. Fill in your workbook — replace test data with your real data

4. Re-run the demos — now you have tools customized for YOUR organization
   
   By the end of the Advanced course, you'll have a strategic IT portfolio, a 90-day implementation plan, a governance framework, a team transformation roadmap, and a vendor risk assessment — all built with your own data, ready to present to your board.