Stop Random Acts of AI: The 5-Stage Model to Become Truly AI-Native

The AGI Podcast - Practical AI for everyday people who got stuck implementing it. (Episode 58)

Episode Summary:

Most organizations are moving too fast with AI while missing the foundation entirely. Melissa Reeve brings a marketing transformation and change management lens to explain why "random acts of AI" fail, what the blue-collar manufacturing collapse of the 1980s teaches us about white-collar AI displacement, and her five-stage Hyperadaptive Model for becoming truly AI-native without the bureaucracy.

About My Guest

Melissa M. Reeve is Founder of Hyperadaptive Solutions | Marketing transformation and AI integration expert | Creator of the Hyperadaptive Model, a research-backed five-stage blueprint for AI-native operations. Melissa helps organizations move from scattered AI experiments to sustainable transformation through the human, structural, and governance changes that actually make AI scale. Author of "Hyperadaptive: Rewiring the Enterprise to Become AI-Native" and the "AI Transformation Insider" newsletter.

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Key Timestamps:

03:45 - The AI triurcation: enthusiasts, avoiders, and the begrudging adopters just waking up08:12 - What DevOps teaches us about AI transformation (spoiler: it didn't kill jobs, it changed them)12:30 - Why design thinking and agile processes finally become accessible with AI automation15:20 - The five-stage Hyperadaptive Model: from linear organizations to AI-native operations19:45 - Stage One foundations: AI councils, champions, and support structures that actually work22:10 - Why most companies are moving too fast and skipping the foundation26:30 - Finding the ChatGPT moment for resistant employees (it's different for everyone)31:15 - Agentic AI in regulated industries: the traceability problem nobody's talking about35:40 - China's Ping An Insurance as a Stage 5 hyperadaptive case study across finance, healthcare, and insurance40:25 - The AI flywheel: spark, spread, scale, and sustain (then do it all over again when models change)44:50 - Microsoft Copilot reality check: why underutilization matters more than lagging functionality right now48:10 - The 1970s-80s blue-collar manufacturing collapse and what it teaches about white-collar AI displacement51:30 - Don't wait to upskill: lessons from waiting too long in the manufacturing era

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