The TechWolf Podcast

TechWolf

Technology in HR is booming, yet confusing. Many vendors claim to include AI (agents), skills, seamless integrations, and other technologies in their product offerings. In practice, product promises often differ from reality. In this podcast, our host, Julius Schelstraete, holds no-nonsense conversations with business practitioners and thought leaders on everything related to "the skills-based organization": what it is, whether it's realistic, typical roadblocks, real-life use cases, and more. Join us as we move beyond the hype and examine skills-based HR from a critical, realistic lens!

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The TechWolf Podcast

Episodes (36)

Thu Sep 24th The AI org-chart experiment | BCG's Julie Bedard on accountability, error rates and token spend
Aug 27th Who owns work redesign, and what has to be true first | Accenture's Matthew Morgan on skills technology, ownership, and the questions nobody asks
Aug 3rd “It's not a super sexy problem, but it's the foundation of everything.” | Ian Bailie, Synopsys' VP of People Strategy, on a best-of-breed skills stack

The TechWolf Podcast

Sep 24, 2026
42¼ minutes
39 MB

Roughly a third of companies now talk about AI as a teammate or an employee, and between a fifth and a third say it has already carried over into the org chart. The argument for doing it has always been familiarity: give people a human reference point and they will use the thing. Julie Bedard and her co-authors tested that with 1,200 to 1,300 managers in HR and finance, all reviewing the identical document, with only the stated author changed. Adoption intent did not move. Personal accountability dropped, escalations rose, and reviewers who thought an AI employee wrote the...

The TechWolf Podcast

The AI org-chart experiment | BCG's Julie Bedard on accountability, error rates and token spend

TechWolf

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