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World Economic Forum · January 2022 · Playbook

Empowering AI Leadership: AI C-Suite Toolkit

Empowering AI Leadership: AI C-Suite Toolkit is a 2022 guide from World Economic Forum. Its core idea: intro to AI, AI strategy, people and organization, responsible AI, implementation.

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intro to AI, AI strategy, people and organization, responsible AI, implementation
Source: World Economic Forum, Empowering AI Leadership: AI C-Suite Toolkit, January 2022.

Key ideas

  1. 01
    Organized into five modules: introduction to AI, AI strategy, people and organization, responsible AI, and implementation, plus a sixth on specialized topics.
  2. 02
    Includes a preparedness assessment tool and a guidance tool as appendices for executives.
  3. 03
    Built with multiple companies and experts, including PwC; published under a Creative Commons non-commercial license.

What it means for you Draft

For executives at $10–100M companies

The appendix questions work as a checklist for a leadership offsite or board discussion; the rest is long and written before generative AI. A $10–100M leader could read the responsible-AI and people modules and skip the introductory and industrial-AI material.

Limitations

Medium trust.Nonprofit convener with multi-stakeholder input; PwC, an AI services seller, co-developed it. Content predates generative AI.

Cite the original

World Economic Forum. "Empowering AI Leadership: AI C-Suite Toolkit." January 12, 2022. https://www.weforum.org/publications/empowering-ai-leadership-ai-c-suite-toolkit/

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