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Finding the Right AI Use Cases

Learn how to identify and prioritize the most valuable and feasible opportunities for AI within your work. 

Not every problem is an AI problem. Part of working with AI is learning the scenarios in which it can create a high-value impact, and how that impact is measured.

In taking this course, learners will explore how to apply AI to high-value business challenges, establish success metrics, evaluate data and feasibility requirements, and prioritize AI cases based on feasibility, value, risk, and readiness.

Key Knowledge Areas 

Through our Finding the Right AI Use Cases course, you will: 

  • Identify a meaningful business or organizational problem appropriate for AI
  • Frame it clearly in operational terms
  • Define measures of success
  • Assess feasibility and data requirements
  • Prioritize use cases based on potential value, risk, and readiness

Audience

This course is designed for: 

  • Working professionals seeking to identify opportunities where AI can drive meaningful value and improve outcomes
  • Managers and team leaders responsible for evaluating, prioritizing, and promoting AI initiatives 
  • Employers looking to align AI investments with goals, operational needs, and organizational readiness
  • Alumni interested in developing practical skills to apply to AI opportunities

Highlight

After successfully completing this course, you’ll receive a Credly badge and leave with a prioritized AI use-case brief, including problem framing, success metrics, feasibility, data needs, value, risk, and readiness.

Want to build towards an Applied AI for Business Credential?

Complete the AI Academy’s full credential sequence with two more courses. 

Course Requirements

This 4-week, instructor-led course includes interactive live sessions accompanied by asynchronous assignments each week. All students should have access to stable Wi-Fi and a computer with Zoom capabilities.

First-time online learner? “Strategies for Success” is a one-week module that will familiarize you with our learning system before you begin your certificate program and ensure you are ready to participate. Required for all first-time, self-paced Bryant learners.

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High-Caliber Instructors

All of our online courses are taught by top-notch Bryant faculty or industry experts who are leaders within their field.

Flexible

No matter how busy your schedule is, Bryant’s online, self paced metrics course gives you the flexibility you need.

Applied AI Stackable Certificate

This course is part of the Applied AI Academy. In order to receive Credential 2, Applied AI for Business, you must complete the following courses in addition to Finding the Right AI Use Cases:

  • Applied AI for Decision-Making and Analysis 
  • Turning AI Insights into Action 

AI Academy

The Applied AI Academy includes nine 4-week courses organized into three stackable credentials. Participants can complete a certificate sequence or take individual courses based on their goals and experience.

Credential 1

AI Foundations for Professionals

Build practical AI literacy for everyday work.

Build practical AI literacy for everyday work.

Credential 2

Applied AI for Business

Learn to apply AI to business challenges and decisions.

Learn to apply AI to business challenges and decisions.

Credential 3

AI Strategy & Governance

Prepare to lead AI adoption and responsible implementation.

Prepare to lead AI adoption and responsible implementation.

Meet Your Instructors:

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Nafees Qamar

Nafees Qamar is an Associate Professor and Program Director of the MS in Health Informatics and AI at Bryant University, where he leads a graduate program that prepares students to apply data and machine learning to real problems in healthcare. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and has built his career at the intersection of health informatics, artificial intelligence, and medical imaging.

Nafees’ research spans natural language processing, deep learning, and applied AI for clinical and public health settings, with more than 30 peer-reviewed publications. He served as Principal Investigator on an RI-INBRE-funded project developing AI methods for medical imaging, and he collaborates with researchers at Brown University on work that links computational methods to patient care.

In the classroom, Nafees teaches foundational and advanced courses covering health data standards, electronic health records, healthcare database systems, and AI applications in healthcare. He is known for making technical material accessible to students from clinical, business, and scientific backgrounds. His teaching draws on active research and hands-on tools such as Epic FHIR and SMART on FHIR, so students learn concepts they can carry into practice.
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Christopher Parisi

Christopher Parisi is the founder and CEO of Trailblaze Marketing, a Rhode Island growth firm that helps small and mid-sized businesses solve real problems and grow through strategy, technology, and, increasingly, practical AI adoption. His approach is hands-on and business-first: he starts with the problem actually worth solving, then works out whether AI is the right tool for it and how to build the readiness to act.

Christopher serves as Vice Chair of the Rhode Island AI Task Force, where he helped shape the state's AI Action Plan and its focus on workforce readiness, and he founded and chairs the Rhode Island Small Business Coalition. He also hosts the AI Wave Podcast on practical AI adoption for business leaders.

That practitioner's lens is exactly what Christopher brings to the Finding the Right AI Use Cases Course, as well as his experience working with a variety of industries and leaders. A fellow 2009 Bryant graduate, he's especially glad to be teaching applied AI at his own alma mater.

Course Format: Virtual

Modality: Instructor-Led, Zoom

Dates: 04/13/2027 - 05/04/2027

Time: Tuesdays, 6:30-9:00PM

Commitment: 4 weeks, 5-6 hours/week

CEUs: 4.5

Tuition: $1,295

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