AI for Leaders and Decision-Makers
Navigate through the AI Hype –
Training Program with Solita
The key to leveraging AI to achieve your business goals is understanding how AI can create value for your specific context and what are the larger implications of the latest technological breakthroughs.
Creating enduring value with AI requires decision-makers to use AI primarily in their own core business. In the AI for Leaders and Decision-Makers program, you will learn to create value with AI in your business by understanding the underlying technology and the different facets of empowering your products and services with AI. You will also learn how to structure your organization to function optimally with the new AI technology and how to facilitate continuous improvement. Finally, you will get an overview of the coming shifts in the business ecosystem and the potential directions it can take.
Through this program, the instructors from Solita and Aalto University will share the knowledge they have gained through hundreds of projects, bringing competitive advantage through organizational changes and implementation of bleeding-edge AI technology.
The concrete output of the program and something you can share with your colleagues are initial and tangible plans on how to use AI to boost your business and how to structure your organization to make it happen.
This program thoroughly examines what leaders and decision-makers should know about AI technology and its implications for business.
The contents of this program are the distilled experience of decades of work done with AI across multiple industries.
The curriculum combines a theoretical, academic basis with real-world business cases.
Benefits
The program enhances the participants’ personal skills and competencies as leaders and individuals. The modules also strengthen the participants’ strategic thinking thus increasing their understanding of why businesses need to transform and how they themselves can become drivers of organizational transformation. Via group and independent working, you will document your learnings in a tangible format, which can be used to support your company’s AI adoption journey.
For
The AI for Leaders and Decision-Makers program is designed for general management and executives, middle management in digital roles, and experts who want to understand the business and organizational side of AI.
The program suits, for example, business directors, development managers, digital managers, strategy managers, CFOs, and CIOs.
Contents and Schedule
The program gives you the ability
- to identify realistic value-creating use cases for your organization with impacts on both top and bottom-line
- to plan and deliver AI-powered initiatives by understanding different aspects of AI development from tech to legal
- to conceive and execute organizational transformation programs to benefit from AI
Modules
Instructors
Henri Schildt
Henri Schildt is a Professor of Strategy at Aalto University School of Business and Aalto University School of Science.
Professor Henri Schildt’s research interests span technology strategy, organizational change, and strategy process (with specific interest in reasoning under uncertainty and the use of data analytics). He is currently heading two research programs on data-driven management and the management of digitalization in Finnish manufacturing companies.
He is a tenured professor with a joint appointment at the Aalto University School of Business and the School of Science’s Department of Industrial Engineering and Management.
Henri Schildt completed his PhD at Helsinki University of Technology in 2007.
Minna Kärhä
Business Area Lead, AI Business Design, Solita
Minna Kärhä is a distinguished data and analytics expert with over two decades of experience leading data and AI initiatives across customer experience, sales and marketing, consumer services, and business operations development. Her extensive, hands-on expertise spans multiple industries, giving her a deep understanding of both the opportunities and challenges organizations face in leveraging data and AI.
A passionate advocate for the strategic value of data, Minna has been instrumental in driving organizational change and embedding data as a core business asset. Drawing inspiration from design thinking, she has developed practical methods to help organizations define their strategic focus and navigate the complexities of data-driven transformation.
Minna’s work ranges from high-level strategy development to tackling specific business challenges, always with a focus on fostering a strong data-driven culture. Her contributions to the field have earned her notable recognition, including being named a Global Data Innovator of 2020.
Iina Juurinen
PhD, Lead AI Designer, Solita
Iina Juurinen is a seasoned professional in data, AI, and business, with extensive experience in conceptualizing, developing, and implementing data-driven and AI services within international organizations and across diverse industries. With a background in science and over 10 years of experience in various technical and business roles related to AI, Iina adopts an interdisciplinary approach to solving complex issues—combining AI and data expertise with deep insights into people and organizational dynamics. In her work, Iina ensures that business and end-user value is prioritized in all AI and generative AI projects, while also supporting organizations in crafting AI and generative AI visions, strategies, and roadmaps across multiple sectors.
Solita is a Finnish technology company that combines expertise in data, AI, cloud, and software development with a human-centric and business-driven approach.
Solita integrates business strategy and objectives into its solutions, ensuring that technology not only solves complex problems but also drives measurable business value. With over 2,000 professionals, Solita operates in Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Estonia, Belgium, Poland, Switzerland, Germany, and the UK.
