Blog tagged as generative AI

The AI Content Trap: Multiplying Mediocrity at Scale

05.06.26 9:43 AM - By Thomas Wieberneit - Comment(s)

The AI Content Trap: Multiplying Mediocrity at Scale

Marketing has always suffered from a volume addiction; however, the advent of generative AI has turned a bad habit into a terminal condition. In the recent discussion with Volker Hildebrand in our CRMKonvo, we explored the uncomfortable reality tha...

AI in Q1 2026: Less Magic, More Context, and the Death of the Outbound SDR

04.10.26 12:25 AM - By Thomas Wieberneit - Comment(s)

Welcome to the second quarter of 2026. The dust of the generative AI explosion seems to have finally settled, so actual business realities can be seen. For the last few years, the enterprise software market has been drowning in vendor promises of AI magic. Now, companies are waking up to the hard tr...

The Uncomfortable Truth About Enterprise AI in 2026: It's Not Intelligence, and That's a Problem

03.16.26 9:21 PM - By Thomas Wieberneit - Comment(s)

As enterprises scramble to deploy AI, the Great AI Debate’s eighth installment reveals a widening gap between what vendors are selling and what actually works at scale. Dr. Michael Wu and Jon Reed spent this episode cutting through the hype around language models, domain expertise, and the fina...

Flipping the math: How AI changes Build vs. Buy

12.18.25 12:35 PM - By Thomas Wieberneit - Comment(s)

For the longest time, companies have been trapped by enterprise software vendors.

First by shrink-wrapped software packages.

Then by SaaS offerings.

Both situations led to what one even in a SaaS world can call shelfware – although these days the shelf is a virtual one instead of a physical one. Buyers...

The Great GenAI Divide: Debunking the Myth of 95% Failure

10.31.25 3:57 PM - By Thomas Wieberneit - Comment(s)

These days, we are drowning in conflicting information about the value of generative and/or agentic AI. I, myself am researching for good studies that dive into the ROI that is generated by this technology, with limited success. Most information is anecdotal, or comes from success stories, which can...

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