What happens when AI is deployed without a clear use case, a change management plan, or any respect for the humans it's meant to support? It fails, and according to Evan J Schwartz, Chief Innovation Officer at AMCS and author of *The People, Places and Things*, it fails predictably and preventably. In this episode of the CTRL+Listen Podcast, Evan shares hard-won insights from 35+ years in enterprise software, ERP implementation, and industrial automation across forestry, mining, scrap metal, and waste industries.From AI-powered predictive maintenance and fleet optimization to the dangers of omnipresent AI use cases, Evan makes the case for a "person plus AI" strategy: one where narrow, well-defined AI tasks are chained together for compounding impact. He also dives into how AI is reshaping software education, why generalists will outlast specialists in the age of AI, and what the waste and recycling industry can teach the rest of us about operational efficiency.Learn More about Evan here: evanjschwartz.com

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