AI for Profit: Drive Growth, Cut Costs, Win the Market
Live Online | Two Half-Day Executive AI Training Workshop
This two half-day corporate training programme explains AI through a business-first approach. This is not an AI awareness course; it is a business acceleration programme that shows leaders and teams how to increase revenue, reduce operational cost, and build sustainable competitive advantage using AI, safely and measurably. Participants don’t just learn about AI, they build real business assets, define priorities, and leave with a 1-year AI adoption roadmap tailored to their company.
By the end of this programme, participants will
- Create AI-assisted sales scripts, proposals, and campaigns
- Design 3–5 internal AI automation blueprints with cost-saving estimates
- Define AI-driven market differentiators
- Build a ROI priority matrix, a 1-year adoption roadmap and department ownership plans
- Establish KPI framework mapped to revenue, efficiency, and market performance
This course is designed for:
- CEOs and Executives (strategic decision-making, future planning)
- Sales and Business Development Teams (revenue scaling, customer outreach, proposals)
- Customer Support and Call Centers (AI chatbots, automated replies, sentiment handling)
- Marketing and Social Media Managers (campaign automation, targeting, content creation)
- HR and Recruitment Teams (CV screening, skills gap analysis, L&D content generation)
- Finance, Data, and Business Intelligence Teams (reporting, forecasting, CSV/Excel insights)
- Operations and Project Leaders (process optimisation, workflow acceleration)
- Technical and Systems Leads (AI integration, deployment awareness)
Objectives
- Understand AI, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Generative AI in simple, practical, and business-aligned terms.
- Recognize AI capabilities, limitations, and real impact on corporate environments.
- Apply Generative AI for workplace productivity and revenue-driven tasks (emails, proposals, campaigns, customer messaging).
- Design AI-powered automations to reduce workload and operational expenses.
- Build AI-driven competitive differentiation strategies for market leadership.
- Adopt AI responsibly, aligned with GDPR, privacy, and security best practices.
- Develop a 1-year internal AI adoption roadmap based on ROI and complexity.
- Produce real business assets during hands-on sessions.
- Complete a company-specific internal AI consulting workshop and adoption plan.
Final Outcome
Participants and business leaders leave the training with:
- A strong AI-profit mindset
- Real business assets produced live
- A measurable ROI-based AI adoption strategy
- Cost-efficient automation plans
- Competitive positioning to dominate the market
- Ethical and secure AI governance guardrails
Day 1
Module 1 — AI Fundamentals for Business
- Definition of AI and key subsets (ML, DL, GenAI)
- How AI models learn (patterns, weights, training cycles)
- AI vs Traditional Software (deterministic vs probabilistic logic)
- Key 2025 trends impacting companies
- Understanding limitations including hallucinations
- Business mindset shift: AI as a measurable profit and efficiency engine
Module 2 — Drive Growth with AI
Revenue and customer impact focus
- AI-enabled sales enablement (scripts, proposals, personalized outreach)
- Customer intent detection and segmentation
- AI for lead generation and conversion
- AI for marketing growth (campaign ideation, targeting, social content)
- Upselling and cross-selling frameworks powered by AI
- Hands-on:
- Create 3 outreach messages
- Draft 1 real proposal/quotation
- Build 1 lead-generation campaign concept
Output: Ready-to-use growth assets
Module 3 — Cut Costs with AI Automation
Operational efficiency focus
- Identify repetitive cost-draining processes
- AI + no-code automation principles
- Automate emails, summaries, reports, document processing, support replies
- Hands-on:
- Design 3 AI-powered automations
- Estimate cost-reduction potential
Output: Internal cost-cutting automation blueprints
Module 4 — Win the Market with AI Strategy
Competition and differentiation focus
- How competitors adopt AI today
- AI-driven differentiation strategies for SMEs and enterprises
- Create AI value propositions for external positioning
- Hands-on:
- Draft 1 competitive AI positioning statement
- Define 2 AI differentiators
Output: Market-winning positioning narrative
Day 2
Module 5 — AI Ethics & Compliance for Safe Scaling
Responsible AI focus
- Bias, fairness, transparency, hallucination awareness
- GDPR-aligned AI principles
- AI security risks (data leaks, prompt injection, misuse)
- Responsible AI adoption checklist
Output: Ethics and compliance framework
Module 6 — Technical AI Demonstrations
- OCR optimization pipeline concept (image upscaling, contrast, median filtering)
- Document AI workflow (PDF → image → classify → extract → structured export)
- Explainability and validation for decision auditing
Output: Practical understanding of real AI pipelines
Module 7 — Internal AI Consulting & Adoption Workshop
Direct mapping to the 3 business pillars
- Growth opportunities identification
- Cost-drain process mapping
- Market differentiation planning
- Live production of:
- ROI Priority Matrix
- 1-Year AI Adoption Roadmap
- Department Ownership Plan
- KPIs per pillar
Output: Actionable AI adoption strategy plan tailored to the same company
Module 8 — KPIs & Implementation Action Plan
Measurement and execution focus
- KPIs for Growth (conversion, engagement, response time, sales acceleration)
- KPIs for Cost Cutting (hours saved, tasks automated, cost reduction estimates)
- KPIs for Market Winning (customer satisfaction, competitor differentiation index, AI maturity growth)
- Next-steps checklist
Output: Clear business measurement framework + execution steps
Dr Michalis Agathocleous - Director of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science at Goldman Solutions and Services (GSS) Ltd. Trainer in AI at EY Academy of Business.
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