The AI in Business Podcast
Episodes 1218 total
Closing the Decision Gap in Volatile Supply Chains - with Prasad Mahajan of Optilogic and Dr. Gopalendu Pal of Target
Supply chains are moving from predictable planning cycles to a reality where volatility demands continuous redesign and faster decision‑making. In this episode…
Why AI in Document-Heavy Workflows Fails Without the Right Foundation - with Sumedh Chaudhary of IBM
Enterprise AI initiatives consistently break down in document-heavy environments, not because the underlying models are inadequate, but because fragmented data…
AI-Empowered Customer Service, From Hype to Scalable Operations - with Shri Nandan of Comcast
Significant enterprise investment in AI-driven customer service is producing inconsistent outcomes — and the gap between deployment ambition and measurable busi…
Unified Predictive Decision Making for Retail Growth - with Felix Hoffmann of 7Learnings
Retailers managing pricing, marketing, and inventory through separate teams with separate data are losing margin not to market volatility, but to decisions that…
How Commerce Leaders Avoid Renewal Traps and Vendor Drag - with David Cost of Rainbow Apparel
Enterprise software costs are rising while vendor performance often isn't, and AI has fundamentally changed what enterprises can credibly threaten to build in-h…
Moving from Delayed Data to Event-Level Visibility - with Alex Curran of Aptitude Software
Finance teams are being asked to influence outcomes in real time while operating on architectures built for delayed, aggregated, and heavily reconciled data. In…
Scaling Agentic AI in CX Without Losing the Customer - with Shri Nandan of Comcast
As enterprises move agentic AI from controlled pilots into production customer-facing workflows, the gaps in data continuity, governance, and human-agent coordi…
How Vertical AI Achieves Defensible Accuracy - with Steve Hasker of Thomson Reuters
The rising use of general‑purpose models in regulated environments is creating a widening gap between what AI can generate and what fiduciary professionals can…
Fixing the Decision Speed Gap in Modern Supply Chains - with Joris Wijpkema of Optilogic
Supply chain organizations still struggle to respond to major disruptions because their core planning systems can't evaluate structural options or network‑level…
How Enterprise Leaders Should Measure the ROI of AI - with Darko Todorovic of HTEC
Enterprise AI investments frequently succeed at the pilot stage and collapse at scale, not because the technology fails, but because the organizational conditio…
Modernizing Targeting to Close the Field Execution Gap - with Damion Nero of Daiichi Sankyo
Pharma commercial teams are generating more data than ever, but field intelligence is still arriving too late to change rep behavior before the engagement windo…
How Unified Context Turns AI Into Real Enterprise Performance - with Ravi Marwaha of Arango
Enterprise AI agents fail consistently in production, not because of model limitations, but because they lack a live, temporally aware context layer grounded in…
AI Models as a Commodity and Why Data Foundations Decide Who Wins - with Guillermo B. Vazquez of SAP
Enterprise leaders face a growing gap between rapid AI advancement and the fragmented data and processes that limit their ability to operationalize it. In this…
From Overwhelm to Working AI in Pharma and Life Sciences - with Art Shectman of Elephant Ventures
Regulatory volatility, scientific‑grade context requirements, and entrenched legacy processes are creating a level of operational complexity in pharma that make…
How AI Is Reshaping the Way Enterprises Build Software - With Tim Sears of HTEC
Individual AI productivity gains are already here, but they are uneven, and they are not the main event. In this episode, Tim Sears, Chief AI Officer at HTEC, a…
How Industrial Service Leaders Are Closing the Knowledge Gap Before It's Too Late with Mike Hughes of Peak International Group
The skilled labor crisis in industrial equipment service is not a future problem; it is eroding operational performance now, as retiring engineers take decades…
Human-Centered AI Development Strategies for CPG Leaders - with Shaje Ganny of Procter & Gamble
A widening gap has emerged between the speed of AI innovation and the ability of large enterprises to deploy it responsibly, leading many organizations to repea…
The Pricing Shift Reshaping Enterprise AI Spend - with Adam Mansfield of UpperEdge
The rapid shift from seat‑based licensing to hybrid and consumption‑based AI pricing has made technology spend significantly harder for enterprises to predict a…
Why the Way AI Feels Is as Important as How It Works - with Carsten Wierwille of HTEC
Enterprise AI initiatives treat design as a finishing step. Carsten Wierwille, Chief Product & Design Officer at HTEC, argues that this is a strategic mistake…
How Vision AI Scales Across a Manufacturing Network - with Jeff Witt
Computer vision implementations in manufacturing never advance beyond the pilot phase — not because the technology fails, but because deployment is treated as a…