Steering transformation with STAIRS

How to lead a responsible AI transformation with STAIRS?

  • ChatGPT
  • Claude
  • Microsoft Copilot

1960 € per session, excl. VAT

In short

This training is for executives, transformation leads, and business managers. You will evaluate an AI initiative using the six STAIRS dimensions, identify data, risks, and responsibilities, and define a baseline. The deliverable includes a completed STAIRS grid and a 90-day roadmap for your organization, enabling informed AI governance.

Why this training?

The problem
Many AI initiatives start with the tool rather than with the organisation's priorities.
What it costs today
Projects multiply without clear trade-offs, team trust stays fragile and adoption, impact or resilience are never assessed.
Why this skill
Steering an AI transformation means linking each choice to priorities, risks, adoption and sustainability.
What you gain
Leadership gets a completed STAIRS grid, shared decision criteria and a reasoned roadmap.

Objectives of this training

  • Map priorities and the business problem related to an AI initiative.
  • Identify data, risks, controls, and responsibilities of an AI initiative.
  • Define a baseline situation, costs, and verifiable indicators for an AI initiative.
  • Apply the six STAIRS dimensions to a priority business case.
  • Defend an argued recommendation for an AI initiative.

Who is it for and what are the prerequisites?

Roles and tasks concerned

  • Leaders who define the strategic vision for AI
  • Transformation managers who lead AI initiatives
  • Business managers who integrate AI into their operations
  • Project managers who evaluate AI use cases
  • Decision-makers who arbitrate AI investments

Prior skills

  • AI Fundamentals and AI Prompting completed, or equivalent experience (a learning prerequisite, not a registration condition).
  • Know the organisation's strategic priorities and ongoing projects
  • Have a view of the teams affected by the planned AI uses
  • Be able to own or prepare a prioritisation decision
  • A paid subscription to an AI solution offering the features used, the organisation’s authorisation for third-party tools, and the actual accounts and access rights.

To prepare before the session

  • A computer per participant.
  • A business case to work on, with associated data.
  • Access to necessary AI tools or platforms, with accounts and authorizations.

What you will work on

  1. Strategy: Starting from Value

    The participant can map priorities and the business problem, and compare alternatives with or without AI.

  2. Trust and Adoption

    The participant can identify data, risks, controls, and responsibilities, and prepare for the actual use of AI.

  3. Impact, Resilience and Sustainability

    The participant can define a baseline situation, costs, and indicators, and examine human and environmental effects.

  4. STAIRS Decision Workshop

    The participant can apply the six STAIRS dimensions to a priority case and defend a recommendation.

What you take away

  • A completed STAIRS grid for a business case.
  • Specific decision criteria.
  • A 90-day roadmap for the organization.

Method and assessment

  • Demonstrations with explanations using a concrete case
  • Guided exercises followed by application to your role
  • Peer review of results and source verification
  • An individual or team action plan

Assessment is formative: participants complete and review a practical case linked to the intended deliverable (A completed STAIRS assessment, decision criteria and a 90-day roadmap). Criteria include meeting the brief, accuracy, checks performed and the ability to explain decisions. Each participant identifies an application to test in their own work.

Frequently asked questions

What concrete outcome can the team expect after this training?

The team will be able to structuredly evaluate AI initiatives, aligning technological choices with organizational objectives. They will be able to defend reasoned recommendations for responsible AI projects.

Who should attend this session and what should one know beforehand?

Leaders, transformation managers, and business managers are the target audience. It is necessary to have knowledge of the organization's business context and its strategic priorities. The session does not require prior technical AI skills.

What data or documents are needed, and how is sensitive information protected?

Participants will work on a concrete business case from their organization, using fictitious or anonymized data. The protection of sensitive information is ensured by using generic practical cases or non-identifiable data.

What type of exercise will be performed on an organization's case?

Participants will apply the STAIRS methodology to a priority business case from their organization. This will include mapping priorities, identifying data and risks, and defining performance indicators.

What are the limitations of the STAIRS approach and who validates the result?

The STAIRS approach is a decision-support framework for evaluating and managing AI initiatives, but it does not replace technical expertise or final strategic decisions from management. The result is collectively validated by participants and presented as a reasoned recommendation to their superiors.

How can this approach adapt to specific business lines or cases of the organization?

The STAIRS approach is designed to be flexible and applicable to various business contexts thanks to its six universal dimensions. Participants are encouraged to work on their own use cases, making the adaptation direct and relevant.

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