Leading Organizational AI Transformation
Strategic Innovations and AI is a study module in the Leading Digital Transformation program and can also be taken as a stand-alone program.
The Strategic Innovations and AI program helps you discover how AI is transforming innovation—not as mere automation, but as an accelerator and creative partner in discovery, ideation, prototyping, and analysis. Through hands-on experience, explore the irreplaceable role of human judgment, empathy, and sensemaking, while learning how leaders create clarity, psychological safety, and structures that enable responsible, human-centered innovation cultures.
3 ECTS credits can be transferred from the Strategic Innovations and AI program to the Aalto Executive MBA or Aalto MBA program.
Benefits
The program will challenge and reward you, as our experts help you cut through the noise of digitalization and technology and focus on what really matters for your business. It covers the latest trends in technology and will provide you with practical tools and methods for agile implementation of new skills and knowledge at work. It will help you challenge your strategic thinking and gain a comprehensive overview of the latest theory, technologies, and business applications.
For
This program is designed for business leaders, senior executives, and decision makers responsible for leveraging the opportunities created by digitalization and AI within their organizations.
We recommend the program for core strategy team members, business development managers, and digital transformation leaders.
Content and Schedule
Strategic Innovations and AI is a two-day program combining interactive lectures, a hands-on innovation sprint, and written assignments to deepen understanding of digital transformation. The program is worth 3 ECTS credits.
This program explores how AI is transforming innovation and reshaping discovery, ideation, prototyping and analysis in innovation—not as a mere automation, but as an accelerator and creative sparring partner. The program also addresses how to create a safe space for AI innovations by understanding the limitations, risks, and requirements.
Instructor
Iiris Lahti
Iiris Lahti is a data and AI strategist who specializes in driving the utilization of data and helping companies to evolve their data-driven culture, scale up their data capabilities, and gain sustainable business value from data and AI solutions.
For the past 15+ years, she has been focusing on understanding and resolving how different companies find the most relevant data and refine and integrate it into their business processes and daily work. She has worked as a business controller, a consultant helping clients in various industries to utilize the full potential of their data and analytics systems, and as a development director of data utilization in Sanoma Media Finland. Her role at Sanoma was to drive the company-wide data-driven culture transformation and lead a team of 20+ analysts and data scientists supporting consumer sales, media content design, customer service, and digital service development operations.
Lahti is a founding partner of AI Roots, a network and agency for data professionals. At AI Roots, she helped companies across various industries build winning data teams and exploit the potential of data through the right skills and talent. Currently, she works as Head of Services & Customer Success at Saidot, contributing to the development of an AI governance platform that aims to support the responsible use of AI in organizations.
Risto Sarvas
Risto Sarvas is a University Lecturer at Aalto University.
He has a colorful history overlapping design, business, technology, and society. The common denominator between these three roles is his endless enthusiasm to figure out how technology and society are intertwined: in culture, in politics, in business, as well as in everyday life.
His research, teaching, and service design work have received numerous awards and much popularity.
Risto Sarvas holds a doctorate in Media Technology from Aalto University.
Program Fee and Registration
Other Leading Digital Transformation Modules
You can register for individual stand-alone Leading Digital Transformation modules or take the complete Leading Digital Transformation program, including all four modules.
