4-Day Immersive
The AI Executive
For the individuals that will lead supply chain into the AI powered future.
About the Program
Crafted by experienced supply chain executives and technology groundbreakers, the AI Executive is a simulation-based intensive program designed to build the skills to lead supply chain organizations into the AI-powered future. During the 4 days, participants will re-build the technology infrastructure for a simulated company en route to a competitive repositioning and a financial turnaround. Participants will have to overcome challenges associated with legacy systems, tech debt, budget constraints, and skeptical partners.
Participants will emerge with the knowledge, confidence, and skills required to affect massive, lasting technology-led change in their organizations.
DESIGNED, LED, AND ATTENDED BY GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN EXECUTIVES
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Join An Upcoming Session
November
Dates: November 3-6, 2024
Simulation: "Festival Town": A legacy big-box retailer must meet the ever-evolving demands of an increasingly brand fickle customer. Losing market share to pure-play D2C competitors, Festival Town must rush to rebuild its digital supply chain before time runs out.
Status: Accepting Applications
Location: Chicago, IL
Fee: $10,000
February
Dates: February 2-5, 2025
Simulation: "Natural Foundries": A leading brand in the CPG Food & Beverage space must build the data infrastructure to connect with suppliers, manufacturers, logistics providers, and retailers to improve inventory performance, asset utilization, and sustainability metrics throughout its supply network.
Status: Accepting Applications
Location: San Diego, CA
Fee: $10,000
May
Dates: May 4-7, 2025
Simulation: "Westville Chemicals": A highly acquisitive chemical manufacturer must create digital connections throughout its supply network to optimize inventory performance, improve asset utilization, and create operational agility to meet increasingly challenging sustainability requirements.
Status: Accepting Applications
Location: Atlanta, GA
Fee: $10,000
Who we work with
Participant Profile
The AI Executive Immersive Program is:
- Designed for mid- to senior-level supply chain transformation leaders and team members, as well as operational leaders seeking to steep themselves in the technologies and techniques that will define the future of supply chain management.
- Suitable for leaders aspiring to, or already serving in, executive-level roles who want to keep current on trends to accelerate digital transformation.
Participants will emerge:
- With a thorough awareness of the technologies that connect and analyze data, create intelligence, and automate decisions for supply chain teams.
- Armed with the techniques for the rapid deployment, iterating, and scaling of Constellations of best-in-class, focused technology applications.
- Significantly improved at communicating with, negotiating with, and partnering with business leaders from non-supply-chain functions.
- Armed with change management techniques and frameworks, including the Constellation Blueprint framework, to ensure lasting adoption of cutting edge capabilities.
Participants are expected to:
- Have led teams within a supply chain organization.
- Possess well-practiced leadership and communication skills.
JOIN THE NEXT GENERATION PARADIGM
Benefits to You
Develop the skills and and awareness to lead your organization into a future where technology evolves at the speed of business, arming your teams with the transparency, intelligence, and automation that enable game changing breakthroughs in product development, service quality, and sustainability.
Our team of technology leaders and supply chain executives have identified three areas that transformation leaders must master to succeed in this data-driven, tech enabled future.
Enterprise Strategy
With a thorough understanding of how supply chain performance affects enterprise strategy, sales, marketing, and finance, supply chain leaders have a far greater ability to build the case for transformation. Whether seeking financial resources, executive support, or line-level process change, the ability to connect supply chain enhancements with business results is critical for the AI Executive.
Topics of focus include:
• Explore common opportunities to improve a company's cash position, increase sales, decrease COGS, improve customer satisfaction, decrease inventory, reduce cycle time, and create agility--all through digital enhancements to the end-to-end supply chain.
• Understand the priorities of non-supply chain executives; learn how these priorities are affected by supply chain performance.
• Communicate the case for change with the leaders of upstream and downstream supply chain functions, as well as finance, marketing, sales, and IT.
Technology Leadership
Today's supply chain leader must have a deep understanding of emerging technologies, knowing where they are in their life cycle, how to find, test, implement, and scale them. They must also know the techniques for managing risk, building system agility, and ensuring security across the ever-evolving layers of technology that power the supply chain.
Participants will be expected to:
• Investigate cutting-edge automation, data collection & standardization, and AI technologies.
• Benchmark progress, techniques, successes and failures with peer organizations.
• Learn frameworks for assessing, planning, and building capabilities through constructing constellations of focused applications.
Change Management
Today's supply chain leaders will be at the helm for the most significant industrial transformation in modern history. Successful supply chain professionals will be masters in securing resources and support for change, and for leading process and technological change both within and outside of the organization.
Participants will:
• Practice connecting supply chain initiatives to relevant, high-priority business problems to gain initiative support, and to ensure the lasting adherence to new processes.
• Become comfortable making difficult decisions in times of uncertainty.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders and teams.
“You are creating a class of people that doesn’t need consultants.”
Dave Anderson
Managing Partner, Supply Chain Ventures
"We have said for years, the technology isn't ready for use. Now the technology is ready, but the people and organizations are not."
The Immersive Experience
Our Simulation Curriculum
The AI Leader simulation puts participants in a position to lead the digital transformation for a storied organization--one with an established brand; thousands of suppliers, manufacturing partners, and logistics providers; a legacy technology stack; and the typical tech debt and partner skepticism that hinders change in a traditional corporation. Participants will be given a budget, timeframe, and a set of somewhat ambiguous Board-level objectives.
Over the course of the 4-day program, participants will analyze a number of options for their path forward--from hard-coded monolithic solutions to agile plug-and-play solutions--learning from the most innovative thinkers in today's supply chain industry.
Upon deciding a course of action, the team will be forced to gain the support and resources from the executive team, and from critical stakeholders. They will meet with the CEO, CFO, CIO, head of sales, and others to explain and advocate for the chosen path forward. They will get pushback, and will hear all the reasons why their plan is destined to fail; why their approach is wrong; and why they should revert to the more traditional technologies and technology partners.
With the guidance of a team of expert coaches--supply chain executives and technology leaders, not academics or consultants--participants will explain the chosen path, tout the advantages, acknowledge the risks, and ultimately gain support and resources.
At the end of the program, participants will have transformed themselves into true leaders in the digitization and AI infusion of supply chain operations, forever changed with a strategic, empathetic, business-first mindset.
The Coaches
Our programs are led by current and former supply chain executives, across a variety of industries and verticals. These experts bring their decades of experience to help grow the leaders of tomorrow.
