An AI report claims high usage and a successful rollout. A further analysis reveals repeated attempts after failures and no time saving in an important business area. What should your board or executive team ask next? Develop a question guide that you can use for later AI reports.
Formulate questions about actual benefit, resources and risk. For each, identify the evidence needed and a follow-up for an unclear answer. Revise your question guide when outcomes improve but costs rise. Work with the board case or an approved report from your organisation.
Reuse your completed guide for future AI reports. Oversight and executive responsibilities remain distinct; the course does not replace legal assessment of their duties.
What you will work on
Identify strategic information gaps in an AI report
Formulate three review questions that specify the information and evidence required
Apply three questions to a conflicting progress report
Who it is for
Board and supervisory body members
Senior executives
Board and executive office professionals
Topics
Business contribution of AI programmes
Investment and resource questions
Risk, data and control accountability
Report quality and evidence
Review agenda and follow-up requests
Your result
Your question guide records the board remit, required evidence, follow-up questions and review dates. Use it when reviewing the next AI report.
Prerequisites
Experience in management, oversight or board support. No technical AI knowledge is required. Access to an approved AI report from your organisation is helpful; a substitute report is planned for participants without one.
Format and approach
Planned: 3–4 hours of self-study, with report analysis and self-checks on your own draft.
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