PGP in AI-Powered Business Management by BITSoM Mumbai
AI-First Curriculum
Learn the latest AI tools, workflows, and business applications through a curriculum designed for the AI era.
Five Days Campus Immersion at BITSoM Mumbai
Network with your cohort, meet faculty face-to-face, and experience a five-day in-person immersion on BITSoM's Mumbai campus.
CXO-Led Learning
Learn directly from industry leaders who have built, scaled, and led AI transformation initiatives.
Placement Opportunity fulfilled by Masai
Eligibility: 7+ CGPA and 65% attendance.
Hands-On AI Execution
Build confidence by executing AI workflows, automations, and practical use cases—not just learning theory.
Executive-Ready Skills
Strengthen business communication, leadership, and AI strategy to drive impact across your organization.
One career, 3 progressive tiers
AI fundamentals, fluency across strategy, finance, marketing, operations, people, and product. Then specialise in AI leadership by mastering Product, Transformation and Governance, taught through Indian case studies.
Foundation
Go from "I have tried ChatGPT once or twice" to running your week, your research, and your analysis through AI - the baseline every senior leader now needs.
AI for Business - Map & Mindset
Build a clear mental model of Gen AI, LLMs, and agentic AI, what they can and cannot do, and where value lands in Indian enterprises.
Prompting & AI-Assisted Thinking
Use structured prompting for real manager tasks like research, analysis, and decision memos, with evaluation discipline built in.
AI-Assisted Research & Decision Support
Use Perplexity, Deep Research, and NotebookLM to cut research from days to hours, and know when to trust the output.
Agentic AI & Enterprise Workflow Basics
Understand what AI agents really are, where they create leverage, and how workflows get rewired without writing code.
Responsible AI & Data Literacy
Get the data, privacy, and governance basics every Indian manager now needs, from the DPDP Act to hallucination and bias risk.
Core Expertise
Build fluency in the six business domains every senior leader is expected to speak - strategy, finance, marketing, operations, people, and product - each taught through Indian cases, with how AI is transforming it as a live layer.
Strategy, Structured Thinking & Decision-Making
Apply consulting-grade frameworks to real business problems, then use AI to stress-test your own thinking.
Finance, Unit Economics & FP&A
Read financial statements, build unit economics, and defend a forecast, then see how FP&A teams run variance and scenarios with AI.
Marketing, Growth & Customer Strategy
Work through STP, funnels, brand versus performance, and CAC-LTV, then run AI-native campaign and content workflows.
Operations, Supply Chain & Process Excellence
Understand what AI agents really are, where they create leverage, and how workflows get rewired without writing code.
People, Teams & AI-Augmented Organisations
Lead teams, give hard feedback, and shape culture while hiring, reskilling, and performance get rebuilt around AI.
Product, Data & AI-First Business Models
Grasp how modern products ship, how data becomes the moat, and how business models change with AI at the core.
Industry Specialization
Build the in-demand AI leadership skills Indian enterprises are hiring for, then finish with a capstone tailored to your career stage.
AI Product Management
Apply consulting-grade frameworks to real business problems, then use AI to stress-test your own thinking.
AI Transformation & Change Leadership
Lead an AI transformation without losing your team, from reskilling maps to operating-model shifts and CXO buy-in.
AI Strategy & Portfolio Prioritisation
Build and defend an AI investment portfolio with value-versus-feasibility mapping, ROI models, and build-versus-buy calls.
AI Governance, Risk & Responsible Deployment
Take the leader's view on AI risk, from the DPDP Act and EU AI Act to sectoral rules, bias, and incident playbooks.
AI Operations & Agentic Workflow Design
Design agentic workflows that actually ship, where humans stay in the loop, and measure the real ROI of an AI workflow.
Capstone Project
Build an AI-powered plan tailored to your career stage: an AI-enabled transformation plan for your current team or function, or an AI-first operating model or strategy for your business unit or P&L.
Capstone Projects
The final capstone is portfolio-grade and tailored to your career stage. You present your capstone to BITSOM faculty and industry practitioners, and walk out with a plan you can take into your own organisation.
An AI-Enabled Transformation Plan for Your Team or Function
Diagnose a real problem in your current team, then design the fix end to end: problem, data, workflow redesign, ROI, rollout, and change plan. Output: a transformation plan you can present to your own leadership.
A transformation plan you can present to your own leadership.
An AI-First Operating Model or Strategy for Your Business Unit
Architect the strategy for your unit: market view, a portfolio of bets, build-versus-buy, a 24-month roadmap, a governance pack, and a board deck.
A board-ready AI strategy for your business unit or your P&L.
Mini Projects
A 24-month AI transformation roadmap for an enterprise function at HDFC Bank or Tata Consumer.
A structured-thinking and unit-economics diagnosis of the Rameshwaram Cafe growth plateau.
An AI product teardown of a shipped India feature such as Zomato AI, CRED AI, or the Myntra AI Stylist.
A structured-thinking and unit-economics diagnosis of the Rameshwaram Cafe growth plateau.
Our Faculty & Mentors
Dr. Saravanan Kesavan
Dean and Professor of Operations, BITSoM
Dr. Saravanan Kesavan brings 16 years of distinguished experience from UNC Chapel Hill, where he served as Associate Dean at the Kenan-Flagler Business School. A highly decorated educator, he has won the MBA All Star Teaching Awar...
Prof. Daniel Corsten
Professor, Department of Technology & Operations at IE Business School
Daniel Corsten is a Professor of Technology and Operations at IE Business School, previously serving at INSEAD, Wharton, and London Business School. He has collaborated with over 20 Fortune 500 companies across 10 countries, advis...
Prof. Shankar Prakash
Adjunct Professor, IIM Udaipur
Prof. Shankar Prakash brings over 20 years of industry experience in IT operations, digital transformation, and service automation. He is a seasoned AI and IoT educator at IIM Udaipur, focusing on how neural networks can drive ins...
Dr. Sunil Kumar Vuppala
Vice President (VP) – AI Labs at Aurigo
Dr. Sunil Kumar Vuppala is a highly analytical professional with 20+ years of industrial and research experience in AI, ML, IoT, Automation, and Analytics. He has led major data science teams across domains such as telecom, health...
Prof. Meenakshi Balakrishna
Assistant Professor of Marketing, BITSoM
Dr. Meenakshi Balakrishna holds a PhD in Quantitative Marketing from UC San Diego’s Rady School of Management, specializing in causal inference, time series analysis, and machine learning. Her research spans consumer behavior, pol...
Dr. Saravanan Kesavan
Dean and Professor of Operations, BITSoM
Dr. Saravanan Kesavan brings 16 years of distinguished experience from UNC Chapel Hill, where he served as Associate Dean at the Kenan-Flagler Business School. A highly decorated educator, he has won the MBA All Star Teaching Awar...
Prof. Daniel Corsten
Professor, Department of Technology & Operations at IE Business School
Daniel Corsten is a Professor of Technology and Operations at IE Business School, previously serving at INSEAD, Wharton, and London Business School. He has collaborated with over 20 Fortune 500 companies across 10 countries, advis...
Prof. Shankar Prakash
Adjunct Professor, IIM Udaipur
Prof. Shankar Prakash brings over 20 years of industry experience in IT operations, digital transformation, and service automation. He is a seasoned AI and IoT educator at IIM Udaipur, focusing on how neural networks can drive ins...
Dr. Sunil Kumar Vuppala
Vice President (VP) – AI Labs at Aurigo
Dr. Sunil Kumar Vuppala is a highly analytical professional with 20+ years of industrial and research experience in AI, ML, IoT, Automation, and Analytics. He has led major data science teams across domains such as telecom, health...
Prof. Meenakshi Balakrishna
Assistant Professor of Marketing, BITSoM
Dr. Meenakshi Balakrishna holds a PhD in Quantitative Marketing from UC San Diego’s Rady School of Management, specializing in causal inference, time series analysis, and machine learning. Her research spans consumer behavior, pol...