Decision Intelligence Academy
A signature programme unique to IPAT.
The executive challenge
The problem this program solves
Your teams adopt decision intelligence tools faster than the institution can govern them, and leadership cannot answer the board's simplest question: which decisions are now made by machines? The cost is not the spend; it is the two years of decisions made without evidence and the credibility spent on promises. You leave with the frameworks to commission work on decision intelligence, interrogate its outputs and govern it with the discipline applied to any other capital allocation.
Context
Why this matters now
Capability
What you will be able to do
- Commission decision intelligence work and interrogate its outputs with an operator’s confidence.
- Distinguish decision intelligence automation opportunities from decisions where human judgement remains strategically important.
- Price the build, buy and partner options for decision intelligence capability with real economics.
- Govern decision intelligence models and data with controls that satisfy both boards and regulators.
The IPAT Course Standard
The ten-day journey
Each day is a deliberate progression in managerial capability — from strategic context, to analytical frameworks, to applied practice, to executive judgement under pressure, to a capstone that produces something your organisation keeps. The ten-day format runs as two five-day residencies, extending the journey into institutional implementation.
IPAT Signature Case™
Six Weeks to Prove Decision Intelligence
A newly appointed chief data officer at a national revenue authority inherits a decision intelligence mandate, one budget cycle to show value, and three functions that each claim ownership of the same dataset. The CEO wants a decision improved this quarter — not a strategy deck.
Your decision: Choose the single decision intelligence initiative worth proving in six weeks, name what gets stopped to fund it, and decide who owns the result.
IPAT Data Lab™
A a pan-African retail bank suspects its decision intelligence spending is aimed at the wrong customers — and the intuition cannot yet be defended in the boardroom.
Dataset: Synthetic decision intelligence panel for a pan-African retail bank: the tables, formats and quality gaps your team would find on day one.
Your task: Structure the data, segment and score it, and translate the model into one operating decision about where the money should go.
A decision intelligence decision memo backed by an analysis you built and can defend.
Data → Analysis → Decision, not Data → Code → Certificate
Day 10 · The Capstone
What will you change when you return to work?
Build a twelve-month analytical and AI roadmap for your organisation: the value case, the data foundations, the governance, and the first 90 days.
Methodology
Frameworks you will master
- • IPAT Data-to-Decision Framework™
- • IPAT Executive Capability Model™
- • Value-versus-feasibility portfolio analysis
- • CRISP-DM analytical lifecycle
- • Model risk management principles (SR 11-7 adapted)
Cohorts
Upcoming cohorts
New dates are being scheduled
Register with your preferred start date and our admissions team will match you to the next available cohort — or contact us to arrange an in-house delivery for your organisation.
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