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Building an AI Strategy & Product Function

A nine-stage curriculum for standing up an AI strategy and a permanent AI product capability. Microsoft Copilot first. Each stage is a short, interactive course of bite-sized lessons, grounded in Microsoft Learn.

Strategy → Data Readiness → AI Readiness → Maturity Assessment → Envision → Deploy → Adopt → Run → Innovate

1 Strategy Top-down ambition, ownership and success measures before any licence is bought. 7 bites · Mostly your framing; activities grounded Start the course → 2 Data Readiness Govern permissions and oversharing before licensing — the most prescriptive stage. 8 bites · Strongly grounded (Microsoft Learn) Start the course → 3 AI Readiness Technical, identity, people and policy readiness before go-live. 6 bites · Grounded (technical); people from adoption guidance Start the course → 4 Maturity Assessment Score current vs target state across five dimensions; the gap drives Stages 5–9. 6 bites · Your framing as a gate; now backed by a real MS model Start the course → 5 Envision Strategy and assessment become prioritised use cases and a defined pilot. 7 bites · Grounded; 'Envision' is also a Microsoft module name now Start the course → 6 Deploy Assign licences, enable deploy-time guardrails, configure apps, run the pilot. 6 bites · Grounded (Microsoft Learn) Start the course → 7 Adopt Drive sustained use through the enablement framework, champions and comms. 8 bites · Well grounded (MS-4007, Success Kit) Start the course → 8 Run Measure impact, govern continuously, support and review — the standing operation. 7 bites · Grounded (Deliver impact / Operate) Start the course → 9 Innovate Extend into agents and stand up a repeatable build–measure–govern capability. 8 bites · Agents grounded; 'standing function' is your framing Start the course →

Every Microsoft product fact is grounded in Microsoft Learn and cited inside each course. Fonts (Anton, Archivo Black, Inter) stand in for the licensed LearningBites faces. Microsoft's Copilot and agent surface changes monthly — re-verify Stage 9 before reuse.