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AI for Business Strategy: Checked Decisions, 110+ Tools
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8,732 students
AI for Business Strategy: Checked Decisions, 110+ Tools
AI wrote a confident strategy, but can you defend it? AI for market analysis, competitor benchmarks, scenarios, SWOT
Last updated 10/2026
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What you'll learn
- Use AI for strategy without trusting it blindly: take 110+ templates, question lists, checklists and procedures in 22 downloadable resources
- Build an AI-assisted market evidence brief with source-linked findings and visible gaps
- Profile competitors and benchmark offers while checking units, sources and missing data
- Develop three market scenarios with explicit assumptions and signals to watch
- Compare strategic options with an evidence-linked SWOT and a challenge to the preferred choice
- Prepare a decision brief that separates the AI draft, human judgement and approval status
- Detect unsupported claims, misleading comparisons and hidden assumptions in AI analysis
- Connect the recommendation to a strategy session, OKR and execution
- Practise with a quiz, a 10-question practice test and a role play
- Learn with Mike, the #1 HR instructor on Udemy: 1,800,000+ enrollments, 170,000 students, about 200 books on Amazon
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Course content
10 sections • 18 lectures • 11h 3m total length
Requirements
- Responsibility for strategy, planning or analysis, or a role that supports it
- Access to any AI assistant; no paid subscription required
- English at intermediate level or above, since all lessons are in English
Description
This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.
AI can produce a market analysis in minutes, with confident numbers and a clear recommendation. The question is whether you can defend it when someone asks where a number came from. Here are 117 tools to use AI for strategy with checks: 86 ready-to-use templates, question lists, checklists, procedures and AI prompts, 26 models and methods, and 5 working files.
Open a lecture, take the brief, check one strategic claim today.
Why AI-made strategy can mislead
AI fills gaps with plausible text, compares things that are not comparable and hides assumptions inside fluent paragraphs. A decision built on that can look strong in a slide and collapse at the first question.
What changes after this course
Every finding links to a source, competitors are compared on equal terms, scenarios have explicit assumptions and signals, and options are challenged before a choice is made. The decision brief shows what AI drafted, what people judged and what was approved, and the strategy reaches a session and an action plan.
A note on the structure
The course opens with five practical AI lessons, each with a working file and a fictional example. The following sections on critical thinking, strategy sessions and execution give the broader foundation.
What is inside: 117 tools, counted lecture by lecture
You do not have to take this number on trust. Open any lecture and read its description: every tool inside is listed there by name.
- 22 downloadable resources: the lecture presentations plus 5 working files: the Market Evidence Brief, the Competitor Benchmark Sheet, the Strategic Scenario Board, the Strategic Option Review and the Strategic Decision Brief
- 86 ready-to-use tools inside the presentations:
- 22 templates and sample documents: market evidence brief, competitor benchmark sheet, SWOT analysis, strategy implementation plan
- 20 question lists and scripts: source credibility assessment, cognitive bias decision check, strategic decision premortem, strategic priorities and direction
- 15 checklists: scenario board review, strategic option review, strategic decision brief review, data validation
- 14 step-by-step procedures and workflows: market claim source review, OODA loop, five-step strategic planning, two-day strategic session facilitation
- 6 ready AI prompts, 6 matrices and 3 other working tools: market evidence extraction, competitor profile drafting, evidence hierarchy, risk probability-impact matrix, AI output source verification record, strategic option evaluation criteria
- 26 models and methods explained with examples: scenario planning, assumption sensitivity analysis, Minto pyramid principle, cost-benefit analysis
Where the tools are
- AI for strategy (5 sections, 26 tools). Market analysis, competitive analysis, scenarios, option comparison and the decision brief.
- Critical thinking for strategy (1 section, 45 tools). Arguments, evidence, bias and strategic decisions.
- Strategy sessions and execution (3 sections, 54 tools). Strategic planning, OKR, preparation, business foundations, goals and change.
Who is teaching
I am Mike, the #1 HR instructor on Udemy, with 1,800,000+ course enrollments from 170,000 students, and the author of about 200 books on Amazon. I built the people system at Preply as it became a unicorn and worked at Wargaming, iDeals and Alfa-Bank across 20 years in HR. I hold PHRi, SHRM-CP and HCI sHRBP certifications and represent HRCI in Eastern Europe. I am also a founder and lead the strategy of my own academy.
At Wargaming our HR strategy was developed by fourteen people: seven HR business partners, including me, the heads of recruiting, onboarding, employer brand, the corporate university and benefits, and the local HR director. Everyone prepared their view of the future first, and then we brainstormed together.
How to use the course
Start with the five AI lessons and work through one real decision, then use the critical thinking and strategy session sections. Section and lecture titles show how many tools are inside, and each lecture description lists them by name.
What is included
- 18 lectures across 10 sections, 11 hours
- 22 downloadable resources: lecture presentations and five working files
- 117 tools across the lessons
- A quiz, a 10-question practice test and a role play
- Lifetime access to all materials
- Active instructor support in the Q&A section
- A Udemy Certificate of Completion
Where to start
Take the last strategic recommendation you received and mark every claim that has no source. Enrol now and start your first lesson today.
Who this course is for:
- Business leaders and founders making strategic decisions
- Strategy and business analysts
- Managers preparing strategy sessions
- Consultants who use AI for market research
- HR and finance leaders who contribute to strategy