This free course will help you leverage the benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) and build your understanding of the tools and applications available.
Before integrating AI into your business, you will review your organisational activities and assess your AI goals against your business goals and organisational policies.
You will also explore the importance of implementing AI incrementally to improve productivity and build digital capability within your business.
This course is proudly funded by the Queensland Government and delivered in collaboration with UniSC.
Who is this course for?
- Small and family businesses
- Businesses based in Queensland
How is the course delivered?
- One two-hour workshop each week for six weeks
- Delivered simultaneously online and in person
- All workshops are fully supported for online delivery. If you are not based near the onsite location, you are welcome to join online from anywhere in Queensland.
What will you gain?
- Practical strategies for integrating AI into your business
- Increased knowledge and skills in AI tools and applications
- Targeted assistance in key areas of your business operations
- Opportunities to network with like-minded business owners
Benefits of attending in person
There are added benefits for your business if you attend our short courses in person, including:
- learn from other businesses through discussion and shared experiences
- more opportunities to ask questions and speak directly with the facilitator
- take time away from day-to-day distractions to focus on your business
- opportunities for face-to-face networking
- build business relationships with your cohort over the six-week program.
Course overview
Module 1: Introduction to artificial intelligence and its benefits for business
Module 2: Reviewing your organisational tasks and activities
Module 3: Understanding AI tools and applications
Module 4: Integrating AI into product and service development
Module 5: Integrating AI into sales and marketing
Module 6: Integrating AI into finance and reporting
If you don't see the course, session date or location that suits you, please register your interest and we will be in touch when new courses, session dates and locations are announced for 2027.
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Meet the Course Coordinator
Dr Wayne Graham is a Senior Lecturer in Management. Wayne has developed a suite of business short courses in collaboration with all levels of government and stakeholders from a variety of industry sectors. The courses are co-designed, co-delivered and co-evaluated with industry representatives and government agencies. Funding for the courses has been provided by the Queensland Government. The courses are offered simultaneously online and onsite at various locations throughout the state.
Wayne has presented his research findings at national and international conferences and he has published his research in peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Health Organization and Management, the International Journal of Educational Management, and the Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing. As well as working in higher education, Wayne has worked in the vocational education sector, the automotive industry and local government.
