Strategic AI Procurement and Vendor Selection
Executive leaders will gain the necessary expertise to evaluate AI vendors and negotiate service-level agreements for algorithmic services. The course focuses on protecting the organization from vendor lock-in, data privacy risks, and poor AI performance metrics.
£640
Certified Executive AI Procurement Officer
- Pass mark 70%
- Certificate on completion
- Verifiable public certificate ID
- English · available globally
Strategic AI Procurement and Vendor Selection: the short answers
- What is Strategic AI Procurement and Vendor Selection?
- Executive leaders will gain the necessary expertise to evaluate AI vendors and negotiate service-level agreements for algorithmic services. The course focuses on protecting the organization from vendor lock-in, data privacy risks, and poor AI performance metrics.
- Who is Strategic AI Procurement and Vendor Selection for?
- It is pitched at Executive level for Chief Procurement Officers working in AI & Machine Learning Foundations, and is studied online from any country.
- How long does Strategic AI Procurement and Vendor Selection take?
- Around 20 hours of study, plus the assessed assignments and one applied project.
- How is the certification assessed?
- Every assignment and the final project are assessed automatically against the published criteria. The pass mark is 70%, and an item that does not pass can be resubmitted.
- What do I receive when I pass?
- Certified Executive AI Procurement Officer, issued as a certificate with a unique ID that employers can check in the public certificate register.
- How much does it cost?
- £640 once, with no subscription.
What you will be able to do
- Evaluate AI vendor capability against business technical requirements.
- Draft performance-based service level agreements for AI models.
- Manage vendor relationships with AI-specific contractual safeguards.
- Analyze the long-term ROI of procurement choices in AI tools.
Written by Eleanor Rigby, Former CPO and Digital Strategist. Every submission is assessed automatically against the published criteria for Certified Executive AI Procurement Officer, and the certificate is issued the moment the assessment is complete.
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