Training the C-Suite: Chief AI Officer Program
A Chief AI Officer program that built strategic AI capability
The Challenge
Across the Middle East, AI moved from experimentation to executive priority. Organizations needed leaders who could translate AI ambition into clear strategic choices. Instead, AI responsibility was often fragmented, with no single leadership role equipped to align vision, use cases, and execution across the enterprise.
- Executive team lacked deep AI strategic understanding
- Need for enterprise-wide AI governance framework
- Pressure to accelerate digital transformation timeline
- Requirement for AI ethics and responsible AI practices
The Solution
Building Chief AI Officer–Level Leadership
The program built AI leadership capability, giving senior leaders the strategic clarity and governance discipline to guide AI adoption at scale, using the Play to Win framework adapted for AI.
The CAIO's Strategy Journey
- 1. Aspire: Set the AI Ambition
Defined a clear AI ambition, articulating how AI would create value and shape competitive advantage.
- 2. Where to Play: Focus AI Opportunity Spaces
Identified and structured priority AI opportunity domains aligned with business strategy.
- 3. How to Win: Choose Strategic AI Plays
Selected a small set of AI initiatives where investment would deliver differentiated impact.
- 4. Capabilities: Build the AI Operating Model
Mapped the data, technology, talent, and governance capabilities required to execute the strategy.
- 5. Management Systems: Govern and Execute
Translated strategy into a focused roadmap with KPIs, ownership, and decision rights.
Results
The Impact
Strategic Clarity, Accelerated Use Cases, and Aligned Leadership
By the end of the module, each leadership team delivered:
"With Play to Win Capstone, DryDocks World identified many AI use cases poised to improve productivity across our operations. The AI Trends in Business workshop revealed innovations we'd never considered. The AI Balanced Scorecard workshop showed us how to use clear KPIs to implement AI in our organization successfully. Importantly, René's energizing facilitation kept us all rowing in the same direction."
Jeong Jin Lee
Manager – Technology Solutions
DryDocks World
"With the Play to Win Capstone project, Dubai Airports rapidly transformed a diverse set of AI initiatives into a structured and actionable roadmap in just six weeks. The AI Trends in Business workshop gave us a clear view of how organisations are using AI to drive productivity, while the AI Balanced Scorecard workshop helped us define a holistic framework to track implementation across the enterprise. René's upbeat energy and facilitation style made the entire experience highly engaging for everyone involved."
Mohammad Hamid Bawazir
Leader
Dubai Airports
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