Course Highlights

• An innovative learning experience inspired by the sprint cycle approach used in Agile product development
• Asynchronous and on-demand course work to be completed in approximately six hours within a 30-day period
• An opportunity to break down the transformational topic of Generative AI into its most critical questions 
• Counts toward the Executive Certificate in Digital Business
• Confers a certificate of course completion from MIT Sloan Executive Education

Generative AI represents a significant progression in artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. Unlike traditional machine learning that worked predominantly with structured data, generative AI (Gen-AI) can generate unstructured outputs, such as images, text, and code. This ability aligns with the tasks of knowledge workers, offering potential to automate many business processes, enhance operational efficiency, and create new opportunities in the business landscape. Businesses need a clear and compelling Gen-AI strategy today if they want to be industry leaders tomorrow. 

Inspired by Agile product development sprints, this self-directed course is an opportunity to explore and better understand the transformational power of generative AI. The course will provide answers to critical questions including:

•    What is Gen-AI and why is it relevant to your business?
•    How does Gen-AI work?
•    When should our business apply Gen-AI?
•    Where is Gen-AI heading?

The Generative AI for Business Sprint is conducted by world leading generative AI faculty from the MIT Sloan School of Management and the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing whose collective insights will enable you to use generative AI to create competitive advantage in your company.

About the Generative AI for Business Learning Experience

The structure of the Generative AI for Business Sprint is as follows:

• Sprint goal setting
• Sprint relays, presented as written content, videos, and podcasts that present specific course frameworks:
  • What is Gen-AI and why is it relevant to your business?
  • How does Gen-AI work?
  • When should our business apply Gen-AI?
  • Where is Gen-AI heading?
• Sprint review
• Sprint retrospective

As a participant of this business sprint, you will have access to the MIT Sloan 4DX Virtual Space where you will have the opportunity to interact with video content and other assets as well as our MIT Sloan generative AI chatbot.

During the sprint, you will complete a Gen-AI playbook and submit an executive summary of your playbook to MIT Sloan Executive Education as evidence of your course completion.

During the retrospective portion of this course, you will also be provided with a short podcast summarizing key elements and frameworks that will help you and your teams put Gen-AI to work.

What are Business Sprints from MIT Sloan Executive Education?

Sprints are six-hour courses you can complete any time over a 30-day period. This on-demand learning “box set” can be completed as an individual or as a team and spread out over a month to fit in with your personal and professional life. Our first Business Sprint offering is focused on Algorithmic Business Thinking, a framework developed here at MIT by Paul McDonagh-Smith. We anticipate releasing other sprints in 2023 and beyond on topics including blockchain, cryptocurrencies, artificial intelligence, Web 3.0, and more.

You may be familiar with sprints as a term used in Agile product development, defined as a set duration of time during which specific work must be completed and made ready for review. With these new on-demand courses from MIT Sloan Executive Education, we are 
inviting you to think of your business sprint in a similarly, as a set time period in which to work, experiment, solve a challenge, and share your results.

When you participate in a business sprint, whether individually or in a team, you may also recognize research and development patterns from product development domains. We are translating these concepts into a business context where we can employ key elements of a sprint cycle to help solve complex business challenges and turn them into opportunities. 

At MIT, our motto of Mens et Manus (mind and hand) means that applicable education is our objective—and we think it's yours, too. We hope this learning experience will give you key foundational insights and frameworks that can be applied in your teams and organizations today. This sprint and potentially those to follow you will help you accelerate digital transformation in your company by building the capability to resolve complex business challenges and the confidence to do so. 

Applying to the Course

Apply by using the red "Enroll Now" bar at the bottom of the screen, selecting the "I will choose dates later" option. Sign up as soon as you would like to begin the course; the 30-day access window will start once payment is received. You will be sent log in information and further directions. Please do not enroll in and pay for your Sprint until you are ready to begin the course.

Business Sprints are completely asynchronous, and you will have access to the on-demand course work once you have enrolled and submitted payment for the course. Please allow up 20 minutes for processing before accessing. You should enroll when you are ready to start the 30-day access period.