Episode 37: AI is a Time Machine! Not a Job Killer! - Dirk Häussermann

Guest: 

•  Dirk Häussermann - Managing Director - SAP Germany 

Hosts: 

• Alexander Greb - Consulting Director - cbs corporate business solutions
• Johannes Langguth - Head of Business Transformation and Architecture - SAP SE
  
  

"AI is a time machine." That is how Dirk Häussermann, Managing Director of SAP Germany, sums up the technology reshaping his customers, his organization, and his own working day.

In this episode he sits down with Alexander Greb and Johannes Langguth to talk about what has actually changed, and what has not.

We get into why business AI has a completely different job than ChatGPT, why he has not yet seen a single real autonomous enterprise, and why fifty years of legacy might be a data advantage rather than a handicap. Dirk is direct on the roadblocks: the customers still betting on on premise, the governance models that will not survive their first AI agent, and the partners who stay stuck in implementation mode instead of leading the data and architecture conversation.

He also makes the case that the AI talent everyone is fighting over is mostly already sitting inside your organization, pushes back hard on the lazy AI layoff narrative, and explains why shorter project cycles are good news for partners, not a threat.

His core message for anyone waiting for the perfect moment: there is no shortcut, and there is no sneaking out. All in on AI.

A candid conversation about data, governance, talent, and why the next transformation cannot take another five years.

Follow Dirk here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dirk-h%C3%A4u%C3%9Fermann

Follow Alexander: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandergreb/
Follow Johannes: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johanneslangguth/

Thanks to Steven Spears for lending his voice for our podcast intro.
Theme music by Luis Álvarez a.k.a. Fourth Dogma