AI for Consulting

Overview

Discover how AI can take your consulting work to the next level! Research, analyze, and communicate more productively and effectively.

Discover how to leverage AI in your consulting work to deliver more impactful work faster! In this course, you'll learn how to augment and automate some of the core tasks in the consultancy workflow: from research and analysis to client delivery. Learn to leverage AI to synthesize information across various sources like documents and images, extract insights by performing calculations and generating summary plots, and build engaging visualizations for the stakeholders that you'll be presenting to. Along the way, you'll learn how to mitigate the risks of using AI for consultancy, such as hallucinations in citations and key information. Supercharge your consultancy workflows today!

Syllabus

Augmenting Research and Synthesis with AI

Kick off your AI-powered consulting journey with Microsoft Copilot. Master the GSCE prompting framework to craft effective prompts, synthesize insights from web pages, PDFs, and infographics, and transform raw research into polished narratives using the SCR and Pyramid Principle frameworks.

Democratizing and Accelerating Data Analysis with AI

Turn raw data into actionable insights without writing a single line of code. Analyze Excel datasets for performance trends, extract sentiment from customer reviews, build compelling visualizations, and generate strategic recommendations and hypotheses—all through conversational AI prompts.

Augmenting Client Engagements with AI

Bring your analysis to life with client-ready deliverables. Craft investment narratives using the SCQA framework, adapt messaging for executive versus technical audiences, create board-ready visualizations, and tie it all together with an end-to-end churn analysis case study.