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AI agents are reshaping how enterprises innovate, organize work, and experience disruption.

In the latest episode of “What’s the BUZZ?”, Andreas Welsch speaks with Christian Muehlroth, CEO of ITONICS, about how agentic AI will redefine innovation management and why many organizations remain structurally unprepared for it.

Here are the key insights from the conversation:

• AI’s foundations were created decades ago, but recent advances in computing, interfaces, and delivery models have turned it into a scalable innovation engine.
• Each technological wave builds on prior ones, accelerating change while large organizations slow down due to processes, politics, and legacy structures.
• Agents function as tireless digital interns with expert-level capabilities in narrow domains, amplifying the output of teams that already demonstrate initiative and creativity.
• Many place AI on top of legacy processes or rely too heavily on public LLMs, resulting in misaligned outputs and “AI tourism” instead of measurable impact.
• Clean enterprise data, secure deployment setups, and redesigned processes are essential to making agentic AI operational and strategically valuable.

Key takeaways:

1. Focus on real-value use cases: innovation begins with a business problem, not with experimenting for its own sake.
2. Prioritize structural readiness: clean data, redesigned workflows, and enterprise-grade AI infrastructure determine whether agentic systems deliver results.
3. Empower motivated teams: the highest return comes from equipping individuals who seek change with advanced tools that amplify their capacity, rather than attempting blanket adoption across the organization.

Leaders need to take disruption seriously, double down on strategic intelligence, empower the people who want change, and invest in data and platform foundations before scaling agents.

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