Become an AWS AI Business Strategist - 2 Days Instructor Led Training

The AWS AI Business Strategist: Role-Based Training is an instructor-led course designed for business and technology leaders responsible for shaping, sponsoring, and scaling AI initiatives within their organizations. Instructors model how to think like an AI strategist using case studies. Professionals learn how to lead AI strategy engagements from customer diagnosis through enterprise deployment. The training provides a framework for understanding what an AI strategist does and multiple use cases to practice those tasks. The simulation on Day 2 provides an opportunity for learners to synthesize their learning in an end-to-end AI strategy challenge. Participants leave with actionable tools: strategic frameworks and guided walkthrough documents- all contextualized within the AWS AI ecosystem. The course is aligned with the certification exam domains and offers a role-based perspective for learners interested in taking the exam.

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Level: Beginner Duration: 2 Days Delivery Type: Instructor-Led Training

• Transform ambiguous business challenges into scoped, AI-appropriate problem statements.
• Apply the 3D framework (Discover, Design, Deliver) to assess organizational readiness and map problems to AI capabilities
• Evaluate tradeoffs between business objectives and responsible AI principles, balancing value, feasibility, risk, and ethics
• Design pilot strategies with measurable success criteria and phased scaling paths to enterprise deployment
• Facilitate AI change management by addressing workforce concerns and structuring crossfunctional teams
• Explain core AI/GenAI concepts to evaluate solution feasibility and inform build-buy-partnerdecisions

Recommended

• Business or technology leadership experience
• Familiarity with enterprise technology initiatives
• Basic understanding of cloud computing concepts
• AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials 

Welcome and Course Overview

• Access Labs and Guides

The AI Business Strategist's Toolkit

• The AI business strategist's role
• The Enterprise Strategy Layer
• The 3D framework
• Technical Foundations: What the AI Business Strategist Needs to Know
• Activity: Scenario Triage

Discover: Problem, Readiness, and Data Foundations

• Diagnose the Customer's Actual Problem
• Assess Organizational Readiness
• Establish Data Foundation
• Activity: Discovery

Design: Capabilities, Governance, and Scope

• Map Business Problems to AI Capabilities
• Weave in Governance and Responsible AI
• Specify POC scope and pilot success criteria
• Activity: Governance in a Regulated Architecture

Deliver: Pilot, Change, and Scale

• Build, calibrate, and evaluate the POC
• Deploy bounded pilot and lead change
• Scale from Pilot to Enterprise and Connect to Strategy
• Activity: Deliver

Agentic AI: Architecture, Evaluation, and Production

• Multi-Agent Architectures
• Autonomy vs. Control in Depth
• Generation, Evaluation, and Production
• Activity: Break the Agent

Discover Together

• Use Case Introduction and Framework Review
• Simulation Debrief

Design Together

• Map Pain Points to AI Capabilities
• Governance by Design
• POC scope and pilot success criteria

Deliver Together

• Build, calibrate, and evaluate the POC
• Deploy bounded pilot and lead change
• Scale to enterprise platform

Summary and Continue Your Learning

• Next Steps for Continued Learning