AI for Business - a Practical Hands-On Guide
Award Winning, Online, Self-Study with Tutor Support
Course overview
Are you ready to unlock the potential of AI to drive your career forward and transform your organisation? Our hands-on AI for Business course empowers professionals like you to confidently harness artificial intelligence – from automating tasks and enhancing decision-making to building innovative solutions that add value and confidently support you in developing a business case to present an AI solution for an organisation of your choice.
With AI rapidly becoming a competitive advantage in the business world, this course prepares you to lead AI initiatives, even if you’re entirely new to the technology. Through our engaging and practical lessons, we’ll help you develop commercial skills to leverage powerful tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, and CoPilot, giving you the knowledge and confidence to integrate AI into your organisation’s strategy.
With AI rapidly becoming a competitive advantage in the business world, this course prepares you to lead AI initiatives, even if you’re entirely new to the technology. Through our engaging and practical lessons, we’ll help you develop commercial skills to leverage powerful tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, and CoPilot, giving you the knowledge and confidence to integrate AI into your organisation’s strategy.
The course is structured into targeted modules, building your expertise step-by-step. You’ll start with Understanding AI in a Business Context and move into more advanced areas like Identifying and Exploiting AI Opportunities Across Business Departments. By understanding the fundamentals of data management, exploring ethical implications, and working hands-on with AI tools, you’ll develop insights into how AI can transform key areas such as marketing, finance, operations, HR, and customer service. Each lesson is designed to help you identify, propose, and implement impactful AI solutions that generate real return on investment for your organisation.
In addition to practical lessons, you’ll gain hands-on experience with video lessons exploring different LLMs (large language models), work through real-world case studies, and explore best practices. By the end of the course, you’ll complete a Business Model Canvas for your AI solution to plan and pitch an AI-driven project, demonstrating the strategic value of your proposal to key stakeholders. This course equips you to take on AI challenges and champion AI innovation, positioning you as an invaluable asset in your organisation’s AI journey.
Ready to gain a strategic edge and confidently lead AI initiatives for an organisation? Enrol in our AI for Business course today to boost your career, develop essential AI skills, and create a measurable impact in your organisation!
Online, self-study, global access to study in any country
Course features
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Study time: 48 Hours. 1 Year Course Access
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Gain Industry Skills
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Gain New Skills in Technology and Business
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Includes 1 year Access to BCS library - 95 Titles
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Job and Career Support
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Tutor support
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Learn Online - Study at Home or Work
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Content Aligned to Industry Best
Practice -
Includes Certification
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Build Your Own AI Business Case
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0% Interest Free Payments
How to Start the Course
Project, Support & Certification Included
AI for Business
This course in AI for Business is a globally recognised professional certification which will help develop your knowledge and understanding in these specific subjects:
Course Subjects You Learn
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• Work through online course content which is easy to follow, understand and in a logical format
• Login to continue your course and monitor your progression easily at-a-glance
• Book your online exam to take at home or in an office, no need to visit a test centre
• Multiple choice exam
• Test paper included with practice questions
• Tutor support available 9 am - 5 pm weekdays GMT
• Start today!
Who is BCS?
Recognised globally by corporations, academics and IT professionals, BCS is the British Computer Society, more commonly known as the Chartered Institute for IT.
They have over 60,000 members in 150 countries, and a wider community of business leaders, educators, practitioners and policy-makers all committed to their mission of leading the IT industry through its ethical challenges, to support the people who work in the industry, and to make IT good for society.
With the Artificial Intelligence sector set to be worth over $15tn by 2030, this is a great time to learn about AI!
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Why should I take this course?
The AI for Business course will help develop your career especially if you are planning to or are now working on an AI or Machine Learning project.
With the Artificial Intelligence sector set to be worth over $15tn by 2030, this is a great time to learn about AI.
This course leads to the AI for Leaders certification which is due for release in January 2025.
With the Artificial Intelligence sector set to be worth over $15tn by 2030, this is a great time to learn about AI.
This course leads to the AI for Leaders certification which is due for release in January 2025.
Who is this course for?
This course will help your career if you are:
Specifically, the following roles could benefit from this course (as well as good examples of career opportunities):
• An individual looking to up-skill
• Pursuing further education in IT or computing at University level
• Thinking of changing career
• Project Managers and Directors who need to understand more detail about the application and challenges of an AI/ML project
• Middle and senior managers running or assembling teams to create Artificial Intelligence dependent applications and services, that need to understand the context of Artificial Intelligence in an industrial setting.
Specifically, the following roles could benefit from this course (as well as good examples of career opportunities):
- Engineers
- Scientists
- Professional Research Managers
- Chief Technical Officers
- Chief Information Officers
- Organisational Change Practitioners and Managers
- Business Change Practitioners and Managers
- Service Architects and Managers
- Program and Planning Managers
- Service Provider Portfolio Strategists / Leads
- Process Architects and Managers
- Business Strategists and Consultants
- Web Page Developers.
Course Requirements
- None - no experience or qualifications are needed.
- We recommend beginners to consult the reading list and explore recent news and case studies using AI in the sector they work in.
- You will not need to learn algebra, vector calculus or remember formulas for the exam.
- An internet connection with a mobile/tablet or laptop is required for course access.
- Access to a computer with a camera, Zoom and internet is required for the exam.
Career Path
Globally, Artificial Intelligence solutions will be worth more than £30bn by 2024 - boosting productivity up to 30% with up to 25% savings & generate up to $15.7 trillion to the global economy in 2030.
Sectors using Artificial Intelligence:
• Health
• Robotics
• Engineering & Manufacturing
• Finance
• Marketing
• Transport
• Automotive
• Advertising
• Retail
• Researchers
• Cyber Security
• IT
• Education...
What Happens After I Enrol?
1. Click on the enrolment email to gain access
2. Complete your study
3. Submit the project work
4. Download your certificate.
3. Submit the project work
4. Download your certificate.
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Meet our instructor
Darren Winter
CEO & Founder
Future Proof Your Career