Mastering Risk Management Podcast · Anthony Wilson

MRM Episode 122 - Chris Carter

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Chris Carter urges young professionals to use AI tools to become “bigger, better, stronger, and faster.”

1. Mastering Risk Management Podcast episode 122 features Chris Carter discussing SAP implementation risk and business transformation. 2. Anthony Wilson hosts Chris Carter, the chairman and CEO of Aproyo, whose work involves guiding organizations through SAP projects. 3. The episode asks how leaders can reduce implementation failures by preparing people, technology, budgets, and executive teams before an SAP transformation. 4. Chris Carter began using computers with a Commodore VIC-20, an Apple IIe, and an Atari 80 during the 1980s. 5. Georgia Tech trained Carter as a computer engineer before Coca-Cola hired him as an intern in Atlanta in 1989. 6. Coca-Cola’s SAP R2 mainframe environment introduced Carter to the migration toward SAP R3 and x86 platforms. 7. Carter says a 2011 return to the SAP ecosystem led to Aproyo becoming an approved SAP startup-focused partner three months later. 8. Aproyo works with organizations that either plan SAP changes early or seek help after unsuccessful low-cost offshore implementations. 9. Carter repeatedly argues that “cheaper isn't necessarily the best thing for an SAP migration” when provider experience is inadequate. 10. Carter describes SAP S/4 as a business transformation in which familiar ECC GUI workflows become tile-based applications. 11. Carter identifies organizational change management and migration preparation as two major weaknesses in software implementations. 12. Carter says one organization ignored his warning, then contacted him seven months later after firing its CIO and implementation company. 13. Carter assigns CEOs the role of project cheerleader, CFOs responsibility for financial discipline, and CIOs responsibility for intimate involvement. 14. Carter says he remains personally involved in client projects and mentions managing a staff of 173 people. 15. Carter discusses Carter’s Pub in Northern Wisconsin, which he says has a whiskey wall containing 100 bottles. 16. Charging Bunny, another Carter company, uses solar energy for electric-vehicle charging and sends unused capacity back to Wisconsin’s grid. 17. Carter describes Mugatu AI as providing homomorphic encryption and predictive analytics for databases used by companies and regulated facilities. 18. Carter recommends that young professionals learn AI tools including Google Gemini, ChatGPT, Canva, Hootsuite, and other platforms. 19. Anthony Wilson and Chris Carter deliver the episode as a conversational interview with direct implementation examples and career advice. 20. SAP, ERP, risk, and AI practitioners will find Carter’s implementation warnings useful, while listeners uninterested in enterprise technology may skip it.

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SAP transformation works best when the future is clear to the people expected to deliver it.

Enterprise software risk rarely lives in the software alone. Anthony Wilson's conversation with Chris Carter keeps circling back to the people asked to carry an SAP change from plan to daily habit.

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