Anthropic Claude for Business Productivity and Innovation
Anthropic Claude is becoming an important AI platform for business professionals who need strong reasoning, research support, writing assistance, coding support, and practical workflow acceleration. This one-day program helps participants understand how Claude works, where it fits in the modern AI toolset, and how to use it responsibly for everyday business tasks.
This program addresses practical questions such as:
- How can Claude improve research, analysis, writing and decision support?
- How should professionals structure prompts to get clearer, more reliable outputs?
- How can Claude Projects, Skills, Agents, connectors and Claude Code support repeatable workflows?
- What are the limits, risks and governance considerations when using Claude in a business environment?
Program Details
Program Dates
October 20, 2026
Registration Deadline
October 6, 2026
To request additional program information, please fill out our interest form.
Delivery Method
1 full day, on campus
Cost
$700 if you register by September 8, 2026
$950 if you register between September 9-October 6, 2026
Promotions and Available Discounts
- Discounts are available for Ohio State University employees, OSUWMC employees, Veterans, employees from non-profit organizations, and organizations who send 3 or more employees. For more information about discounts, please contact Alison Cherubini-Hillyer at cherubini-hillyer.1@osu.edu.
Prospective Participant Profile
This program is designed for business leaders, managers, analysts, consultants, educators, operators, and professionals who want to use Claude to improve productivity, communication, research, analysis, planning, and workflow execution. It is also relevant for teams exploring how AI assistants, agents, and coding tools can support business innovation.
No technical background is required. Participants should be comfortable working with business documents, email, spreadsheets, presentations, or analytical tasks and should bring examples of work where better AI assistance could save time, improve quality, or create new capabilities.
Program Components
High-level discussion topics
- Claude fundamentals and model behavior
- Claude.ai navigation and features
- Prompting frameworks and best practices
- Claude Skills and Agents
- Projects and Cowork-style workflows
- Claude in Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint
- Plugins and connectors
- Claude Code for hands-on technical and semi-technical work
- Responsible use, validation and practical adoption planning
At the conclusion of the program you will be able to:
- Explain how Claude supports business productivity, research, writing, analysis, coding assistance, and workflow execution.
- Use prompting techniques to improve clarity, context, structure, and reliability of Claude outputs.
- Apply Claude to practical business tasks across communication, research, spreadsheets, presentations, and workflow design.
- Describe how Claude Projects, Skills, Agents, connectors, and Claude Code can support repeatable work and more advanced use cases.
- Evaluate Claude outputs for accuracy, bias, missing context, and appropriate business use.
- Gain confidence using Claude for research, writing, analysis, brainstorming, summarization, and structured problem-solving.
- Learn practical prompting patterns, including persona-based prompting, role-task-format prompting, iteration, and examples-based prompting.
- Understand when to use Claude.ai, Projects, Skills, Agents, connectors, productivity integrations, and Claude Code for different types of work.
- Build a shared understanding of how Claude can support productivity, knowledge work, analysis, communication, and innovation across functions.
- Reduce low-value manual effort by applying Claude to repeatable workflows, document review, research synthesis, and first-draft generation.
- Improve responsible AI adoption by helping teams recognize limitations, validate outputs, protect sensitive information, and use AI with appropriate human oversight.
Program Faculty
Jim Perry, Consultant, Adjunct Lecturer
Jim Perry is a seasoned data and technology leader with over 20 years of experience driving digital transformation for Fortune 100 companies. His expertise spans artificial intelligence (AI), data strategy, and enterprise technology implementation, helping organizations become data-driven, customer-centric, and operationally efficient.
As an Adjunct Lecturer at The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business, he teaches courses in AI Prompt Engineering and Data Mining, equipping professionals with practical skills to leverage AI for business impact. He also advises companies through his private consulting practice, where he helps teams integrate AI to improve efficiency, speed, and decision-making.
Cancellation and Transfer Policy
All cancellations and transfers must be received in writing. Submit your request via email to Jennie McAndrew at mcandrew.28@osu.edu with the name of the program, followed by “cancellation” or “transfer” in the subject line.
- Cancellations must be made at least thirty (30) days prior to the first day of the program in order to be eligible for a full refund.
- Cancellations must be made at least fourteen (14) days prior to the first day of the program in order to be eligible for a 50% refund.
- Any cancellations made less than fourteen (14) days prior to the first day of the program will forfeit the registration fee.
- If you for any reason are unable to attend the program, please consider sending someone in your place. Participants can transfer their registration to someone else within their organization at no charge up to 24 hours before the first day of the program.