From Learning to Implementation
Data & AI Training and Thinking Canvas
Data & AI Transformation Canvas
By leveraging these two canvases together you create a complete roadmap that ensures your data & AI initiatives are practical, impactful, and truly integrated into the core of your business.
What Is the Data & AI Training and Thinking, and the Data & AI Transformation Canvas?
These two complementary canvases guide your organization through every phase of a data & AI journey—from building foundational knowledge and designing a coherent strategy, to implementing AI products and adapting internal structures.
- Data & AI Training and Thinking Canvas
- Purpose: Lays out the path for initial workshops, quick wins, and literacy trainings, followed by design thinking sessions that produce a user-centric and value-oriented data & AI strategy.
- Scope: Defines deadlines, milestones, and responsibilities during the train. and think. stages, ensuring your team gains the essential knowledge and strategic clarity required for subsequent transformation.
- Data & AI Transformation Canvas
- Purpose: Translates the newly formed strategy into tangible outcomes, detailing the development, delivery, and integration of data & AI products.
- Scope: Synchronizes design, development, and deployment sprints for data & AI solutions with the TOP (Technology, Organization, People) initiatives needed to support them. This helps maintain alignment between product innovation and internal change throughout the transform. stage.
By using both canvases together, you create a cohesive roadmap that supports skill-building, strategy formation, product innovation, and organizational adaptation—all essential for successfully embedding data and AI in your business.
Data & AI Training and Thinking Canvas is available for free under a Creative Commons license: You may use and modify the canvas as long as you cite Datentreiber in particular as the source.
Data & AI Transformation Canvas is available for free under a Creative Commons license: You may use and modify the canvas as long as you cite Datentreiber in particular as the source.
When to Use the Data & AI Training and Thinking Canvas
- Starting Out with Data & AI:
If your organization is new to data and AI or to Datentreiber’s Data & AI Business Design method, use this canvas to plan “quick win” workshops that deliver immediate value and spark interest. - Building Data & AI Literacy:
Whenever you need structured, organization-wide training—whether for executives, managers, or technical staff—this canvas schedules and aligns the sessions needed to build a shared understanding of AI’s potential. - Designing a Holistic Strategy:
Once foundational knowledge is in place, the canvas supports design thinking workshops where stakeholders co-create a user-centric and value-oriented data & AI strategy that sets priorities and defines deliverables. - Before the Implementation Stage: When you are in the first two stages of your transformational journey in becoming a fully integrated data & AI business, you can use the canvas to map and plan your progress and get an consolidated overview of where you stand and where to go.
When to Use the Data & AI Transformation Canvas
- Moving Beyond Strategy into Execution:
After designing a holistic data & AI strategy, use this canvas to plan product sprints and parallel TOP initiatives—ensuring that each product concept can be effectively built, deployed, and maintained. - Coordinating Organizational Adaptation:
If your company must update its technology stack, refine organizational structures, or develop personnel capabilities to support AI products, the Transformation Canvas helps synchronize these efforts with product innovation. - Tracking Implementation Milestones and Results:
Use this canvas to manage deadlines, gatekeepers (like Proof of Concept and Proof of Value), and iterative sprints—verifying each product’s alignment with your overall business objectives before scaling it further.
How Do I Use the Canvases?
Description coming soon….
Canvas 1: Data & AI Training and Thinking
- 1a Header (Canvas 1)
- 1b Footer (Canvas 1)
- 2 Deadlines & Milestones (Canvas 1)
- 3 Quick Win Workshops (Canvas 1)
- 4 Data & AI Literacy Trainings
- 5 Data & AI Design Thinking Workshops
- 5a Use Case Specific Briefing Docs
- 5b General Briefing Docs
- 5c Use Case Specific Deliverables
- 5d General Deliverables
- 5e Business Strategy Alignment
- 5f Exploration of Business Domains
- 5g Data & AI Strategy Consolidation
- 10 Persons & Roles / Time & Costs
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Canvas 2: Data & AI Transformation
- 1a Header (Canvas 2)
- 1b Footer (Canvas 2)
- 2 Deadlines & Milestones (Canvas 2)
- 6 Data & AI Product Design Sprints
- 7 Data & AI Product Development Sprints
- 8 Data & AI Product Delivery Sprints
- 9a Data & AI Product Operation & Evaluation
- 9b Data & AI Strategy Review
- 10 Persons & Roles / Time & Costs (Canvas 2)
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Where Can I Find More Information?
- Find detailed tutorials and examples on how to use the canvas in the context of designing a fully integrated data & AI strategy in our Data & AI Design Bench.
- Data Thinker Group (LinkedIn)
