<p>🤖🧠 <strong>AI is making strategy cheap. Adoption is still expensive.</strong></p><br><p>In this episode, Dietmar Fischer sits down with <strong>Bud Caddell (NOBL)</strong> to unpack what leaders miss when they roll out generative AI and expect instant results. Bud shares how his team thinks about <strong>AI change management</strong>, why “turning on Copilot” is not an adoption plan, and what happens to consulting when LLMs can produce “firm-grade” recommendations in seconds.</p><br><p>You will also hear the story behind <strong>ConsultingSlop.com</strong>, a strategy generator that models the reasoning styles of major consulting firms and outputs polished advice instantly. What started as a parody quickly became a serious signal about commoditization, incentives, and the real differentiator: execution, trust, and organizational design.</p><br><p><strong>Key takeaways you can apply immediately:</strong></p><p>✅ How to approach <strong>Microsoft Copilot adoption strategy</strong> like a redesign effort, not a software toggle</p><p>✅ Why AI literacy and training reduce fear, resistance, and “adoption theater”</p><p>✅ What the <strong>agents</strong> wave means in practice, including platforms like <strong>Agentforce</strong></p><p>✅ How “vibe coding” changes prototyping speed and risk for teams</p><br><p><br></p><p>📧💌📧</p><p>Tune in to get my thoughts and all episodes, don't forget to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠subscribe to our Newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: <a href="https://beginnersguide.nl" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">⁠⁠⁠⁠<strong>beginnersguide.nl</strong>⁠⁠⁠⁠</a></p><p>📧💌📧</p><br><p><br></p><p><strong>About Dietmar Fischer:</strong> Dietmar is a podcaster and AI marketer from Berlin. If you want to know how to get your AI or your digital marketing going, just contact him at <a href="https://argoberlin.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">argoberlin.com</a></p><br><p><br></p><h3>Quotes from the Episode</h3><ol><li>“AI is this incredible wave that I think is gonna fundamentally change individual organizations, but the entire economy, society at large.”</li><li>“We turned on Copilot, so why aren’t we more productive? … it’s a design process.”</li><li>“My big prediction is that over the next 18 months, we’re gonna see a lot of backpedaling… and sunk cost fallacy.”</li></ol><h3><br></h3><h3><br></h3><h3>Chapters</h3><p>00:00 Bud’s path from software to organizational change and why AI feels different</p><p>04:20 ConsultingSlop.com, vibe coding, and when AI strategy gets uncomfortably believable</p><p>06:30 Copilot mandates vs real adoption, why productivity math fails without redesign</p><p>16:40 AI as a catalyst for deeper issues: brand story, conflict, and culture</p><p>19:25 The next 18 months: investment traps, backpedaling, and what leaders should do</p><p>38:00 Agents, Agentforce, and Bud’s personal AI toolkit plus wow moments and wrap</p><br><p><br></p><h3>Where to find the Guest</h3><ul><li>Bud Caddell: <a href="https://budcaddell.com/?utm_source=beginnersguide" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://budcaddell.com/</a></li><li>NOBL: <a href="https://nobl.io/?utm_source=beginnersguide" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://nobl.io/</a></li><li>Consulting Slop: <a href="https://consultingslop.com/?utm_source=beginnersguide" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://consultingslop.com/</a></li><li>LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/budcaddell/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">linkedin.com/in/budcaddell/</a></li></ul><p><br></p><br><p><br></p><p><em>Music credit: "Modern Situations" by Unicorn Heads</em></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>