Flywheel Leadership · Graham Peelle (Managing Partner, Endeavor Strategic)

Episode #68: Solutions Delivered | SAP & AI for Today's Leader, with Chris Carter, Approyo

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Chris Carter says HR chatbots, accounts payable, and receivables are the first places AI should land.

1. Flywheel Leadership Episode #68 focuses on SAP, AI, and leadership decisions with Chris Carter of Aproyo. 2. Chris Carter is the founder and CEO of Aproyo, and the host also mentions him as an author and investor. 3. The episode asks how leaders should use AI without treating it like a one-size-fits-all product. 4. Carter says Aproyo handles SAP software solutions, including migrations, cloud work, and security for companies around the globe. 5. He argues that AI began as machine learning and that the real issue is how organizations use their own data. 6. Carter warns leaders not to feed competitors’ data into their systems and says clean internal data matters. 7. He distinguishes between sales and marketing tools like OpenAI and Gamma and technical tools like Copilot Studios and BI platforms. 8. Carter tells leaders to match the tool, the data, and the people to the use case before calculating cost and ROI. 9. He says many companies already have “shadow AI projects” running inside the organization. 10. Carter describes starting AI conversations with CEOs, CIOs, and CISOs by asking what the board actually needs to see. 11. He says HR chatbots can answer questions about vacation time and health insurance. 12. He says finance teams can automate accounts payable and accounts receivable with chatbots. 13. Carter mentions a no-code, low-code, pro-code Microsoft Copilot session in Chicago two days earlier. 14. He says Copilot can integrate with SAP landscapes, Oracle landscapes, and QuickBooks. 15. Carter says good prompting and clean data can reveal where headcount can be moved or not rehired. 16. He recounts a story about sitting with SAP’s vice president, finishing a bottle of scotch, flying to Germany, and then going to Palo Alto. 17. Carter says he helped an old customer navigate a partner problem before that customer returned later on their own. 18. The interview style is direct, conversational, and practical, with frequent humor and examples from real client work. 19. Listeners interested in SAP, enterprise AI, and executive decision-making will get the most from this episode. 20. Listeners wanting abstract AI theory or lightweight tech talk may skip it.

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