Chief Product & AI-Driven Strategy Officer (CPAIO) Programme

• Financial Analysis for Chief Product Managers

• Product Finance Planning & Performance Controls

• Product Life Cycle Management

• Prioritisation and Collaboration

• Rapid Prototyping Strategies for Digital Products/Services

• Agile Project Management & Tools

• Accelerating Product Roadmap Execution

• Foundations of AI in Product Context (NLP, CV, LLMs, RAG)

• AI-First vs AI-Enabled vs AI-Augmented Product Approaches

• AI-Integrated Product Lifecycle Management (Data, Models, Retraining models, Data dependencies, Feedback Loop)

• Leading Guardrails of AI-Driven Products

• Product Portfolio Management (Make/Buy/Partner Decisions)

• Advanced Product Analytics

• Product and Digital Marketing Using AI tools

• AI-Powered Marketing Communications and Channel Growth

• Go-To-Market Strategies in the Age of AI

• AI-Driven Segmentation, Targeting, and Positioning

• Customer, Market, and Competitor Intelligence with AI tools

• Cloud and DevOps for Product Leaders

• AI-led Digital Platforms and Product Ecosystems

• Growth Strategy and Challenges for Transitioning Product Growth Leaders

• Working with Partners, Agencies and External Stakeholders

• Ethics and Conflict Management, IPR & Legal Issues

• Developing Product Management Talent

• Communication, Influence, and Negotiation with C-Suite Cross-functionally

• Execution Excellence, Control & Challenges

• Mindful Leadership

• Business Simulation – Product

• Business Simulation – Leadership at Change Management

• Articulate where and how gen AI and agentic AI enhance customer experience across touchpoints.

• Identify automation/AI use cases for internal marketing, sales, and customer support functions.

• Apply the jobs-to-be-done (JTBD) framework to map AI and gen AI tools to the key deliverables for marketing, sales, and customer service.

• Identify personal hesitations and limitations for using AI and machine learning tools for certain job functions.

• Design a personalized customer engagement strategy using gen AI tools.

• Analyze current use cases for AI-powered robotics and autonomous systems in improving efficiency.

• Create a conceptual hypothesis based on data sources within a case analysis​.

• Identify focus points to further analyze a case analysis utilizing data exploration​.

• Explore the role of key data variables in determining the predictability of failure within a case analysis.​

• Apply gen AI to the Enerwind case study​.

• Explore how gen AI is automating HR, finance, and IT functions, from drafting contracts to managing payroll.

• Identify HR functions that can be optimized by AI.

• Utilize the JTBD framework to identify the pain points and future needs of HR functions.

• Explore AI automation tools that can be used to optimize HR functions and pain points.

• Develop a memo addressed to the chief HR officer that summarizes your identified functions and AI recommendations.

• Discuss how gen AI is being applied across key industries, including healthcare, retail, and financial services.

• Discover how gen AI is reshaping product design, diagnostics, and personalized financial services.

• Develop a vertical-specific AI strategy for a chosen industry​.

• Explore the ethical considerations and IP challenges in AI-generated content.

• Analyze the examples showcasing how AI is revolutionizing creative industries by co-creating with humans in media & entertainment, fashion, and advertising.​

• Create a gen AI-powered product story for a brand.

• Recognize the principles and best practices for AI governance to ensure responsible use.

• Explore how organizations are moving toward zero-touch enterprise models. ​

• Apply AI CMM to an organization of your choice.​

• Understand the broader societal impact of AI, including labor markets, policy, and ethics.

• Explore how businesses can leverage AI for social good while addressing the challenges it brings.

• Discuss the future of work in an AI-powered world, including the role of human-AI collaboration.

• Create an AI strategy memo addressed to the CEO of your chosen organization using the program’s strategies and frameworks.

Learn and apply the AI CMM to develop enterprise AI capabilities in a phased and systematic manner.

Learn the stages of the customer experience DNA framework:

• Customer action: Discover, learn, evaluate, buy, engage and advocate

• Organisation Action: Reach, acquire, convert, develop, retain and bond

Apply the seven-step approach to frame and communicate critical aspects of a GenAI initiative.

Understand the principles of responsible AI and how to govern AI projects to drive responsible and ethical outcomes.

This chief product officer course is designed for new/aspiring CPOs, CPAIOs, product leaders, product officers to equip them with a tactical and strategic guide to foster strategic thinking, customer empathy, effective communication and leadership abilities. Participants will learn how to lead with vision, break through a noisy market, and deliver customer-centric products.

The curriculum of this CPO Programme by IIM Kozhikode covers essential topics such as product strategy, product innovation, design thinking for new products, growth strategy, product marketing and more. It includes live online sessions, real-world case studies, a 3-day campus immersion, and sessions by industry experts, providing comprehensive training to enhance your operational leadership skills.

This course includes live online sessions conducted by IIM Kozhikode faculty, providing interactive and engaging learning experiences, which will provide a holistic CPO training. Additionally, there’ll be three-day campus immersion in which the participants will get a chance to interact with like-minded peers and CXOs.

The total fee for the IIM Kozhikode Chief Product & AI-Driven Strategy Officer Programme is INR 5,45,000 + GST.

Yes, flexible payment options are available, including installment plans to help manage the fee payment for this IIMK chief product officer course. Detailed information about these options can be obtained from the program advisors.

A chief product officer (CPO) or CPAIO is a corporate title referring to an executive who leads the entire product organization. Alternatively, the CPO is known as VP of product or head of product.

A CPO/CPAIO is responsible for the strategic product direction. Usually, it includes product vision, product innovation, product design, product development, project management, and product marketing. In many tech companies, this position also provides distribution, manufacturing, and procurement.

In a nutshell, a CPO/ CPAIO leads a product management (PM) team in building great products that deliver sustainable value to the business. From the early stages of developing a new product concept to beyond product launch, a CPO balances the needs and goals of both the product and the business.

This IIM CPAIO course is the first-of-its-kind cpo course as it provides a blend of live online learning from IIMK along with an online certificate course from Kellogg Executive Education. Participants will get to enrol in global cohorts of these Kellogg courses and learn from top global faculties.

Participants will be awarded a completion certificate from IIM Kozhikode on successfully completing all evaluation components including a capstone project and maintaining a minimum attendance of 75%. Participants who are unable to clear all evaluation components but have a minimum attendance of 75% shall be awarded a participation certificate. On successfully completing the modules of AI Strategies for Business Transformation, you are eligible to receive online certification from Kellogg Executive Education.

The IIMK CPAIO programme includes a 3-day campus immersion wherein participants can collaborate and network with like-minded peers and CXOs. The programme's delivery is live online during which the participants can interact with peers from their cohorts.

On successful completion of the programme, participants will be eligible for the prestigious IIM Kozhikode Executive Alumni Status. These participants will subsequently receive the alumni registration details from IIM Kozhikode.

This IIM Kozhikode CPO course features an online certificate course from Kellogg Executive Education. This course covers key topics such as AI, Business Transformation and more. This course will be delivered online via pre-recorded videos from faculty of Kellogg Executive Education. Participants will be able to gain a worldwide perspective through this course while networking with global cohorts.