Stop chasing the rainbow—this episode shows how to turn AI pilots into repeatable programs that actually deliver business value.

Host Andreas Welsch talks with Ivo Strohhammer about the hard work behind scaling AI adoption: moving from experiments to production, building a community that learns together, and helping small and medium businesses avoid the same pitfalls large enterprises faced. Ivo shares hands-on approaches from his work at Siemens and his new local ecosystem: how to enable people, provide secure playgrounds, and balance fast experimentation with the governance and standards needed to scale.

Highlights from the conversation:

• Why employees are your most powerful lever: democratize access, offer secure tools, and create tiered learning paths so people can progress from curious user to local AI champion.
• How to balance speed and structure: let teams experiment but create standards to avoid reinventing the wheel; use short, adaptive planning cycles and measure impact early.
• The difference between everyday AI vs. process AI vs. new AI—and why rethinking processes often produces far larger gains than just layering models on existing workflows.
• Practical ways to help SMEs: open local labs, shared trainings, and a three-stage approach (Awareness → Ability → Application) so smaller orgs can punch above their weight without huge budgets.

Three quick takeaways:

1. Put people first—train, enable, and give secure spaces to experiment.
2. Find the sweet spot between experimentation and standardization—pilot widely, scale selectively.
3. Stay agile—test fast, keep what works, fail fast, and move on.

If you want a practical playbook for making AI stick—whether you lead a global program or run a local SME—this episode is full of examples and actionable advice. Tune in now to hear the full conversation and start turning your AI pilots into lasting programs.

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Stop building the same capabilities over and over when everyone builds agents. Standardize and reuse common features across your business.

In this episode of “What’s the BUZZ?”, Andreas Welsch sits down with Samantha McConnell to discuss how large enterprises can build reusable AI agents that create real business value. The conversation moves beyond vendor claims to examine how organizations operationalize agentic AI, manage rapid innovation cycles, and balance empowerment with governance.

Samantha shares how Cox approaches AI through centralized hubs, agent registries, and differentiated governance models for individual productivity agents versus enterprise-scale solutions. The discussion also highlights why adoption is critical, and why many AI agents will have much shorter lifecycles than traditional software products.

Catch the BUZZ:

• Preventing reinvention through AI hubs and agent registries
• Governing enterprise AI agents without slowing innovation
• Managing the lifecycle of rapidly evolving AI agents
• Measuring adoption and business impact, not just usage
• Connecting agent initiatives to clear business success metrics
• Using a land-and-expand approach to scale agentic AI responsibly

Key Takeaways:

• Balance innovation and control by tailoring governance to agent scale and risk
• Design for faster time-to-value and shorter solution lifespans
• Define outcome-based success metrics before deploying AI agents

A practical episode for leaders focused on turning agentic AI from experimentation into repeatable, enterprise-ready impact.

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Imagine shrinking a one-hour code review to under ten minutes—and using that same agentic approach to boost sales, reduce fraud, and make branch and call‑center staff far more productive.

In this episode, Andreas Welsch interviews Mo Jamous, CIO at U.S. Bank, who has taken agentic AI from experiments into real production at a major financial institution. Mo walks through what worked, what surprised him, and the practical guardrails banks (and other regulated companies) need to adopt agents safely and effectively.

Episode highlights:

• A clear three‑bucket strategy: persona‑driven productivity, revenue/growth use cases, and operational excellence (fraud, security, DevOps, resilience).
• A concrete win: an agentic code‑review tool built in weeks that reduced review time from ~1 hour to <10 minutes and scaled to hundreds of thousands of reviews per year.
• How to instrument agents for measurement: attach metadata to agents, count executions, and map successful runs to dollar or productivity impact so you can report ROI.
• People, process, platform: upskill teams with hackathons and brown‑bags, put a governance council (risk, security, compliance) in place, and build an orchestration/registry layer to track many agent implementations.
• Common pitfalls: getting stuck on “one tool” decisions, underestimating change management and adoption, and failing to bake monitoring and guardrails into deployments.
• Practical starting advice: pick high‑value, low‑complexity pilots (e.g., developer or call‑center assistants), measure outcomes from day one, and scale using an observability dashboard rather than betting on a single vendor.

Who should listen: business and tech leaders who want actionable guidance for moving beyond demos and into production-ready agentic AI that creates measurable business outcomes.

Want step‑by‑step lessons from an operator who’s done it? Listen to the full episode now to learn how to turn agent AI hype into real business value.

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