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Decision Debt: The Hidden ERP Liability No Dashboard Tracks
Decision debt accumulates when ERP programs defer critical business decisions and replace them with temporary assumptions that become embedded in the future operating model.
Then cognitive debt follows. The original reasoning disappears. People inherit decisions without context, systems without explanation and constraints nobody remembers choosing. The organisation continues to function, but understands itself less. That is the real risk.
- https://erp.today/decision-debt-erp-transformation-governance/
The leadership question
Which parts of your organisation exist because nobody made the harder decision?
The future fitness move
Identify the assumptions that have quietly become permanent.
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Making a Billion Intelligent Machines
Applied Intuition is launching Dana, an agentic platform for developing physical AI applications
https://www.a16z.news/p/making-a-billion-intelligent-machines
Rewiring customer experience for the agentic era
As AI agents take on moment-to-moment decisions, leading companies are redesigning customer experience from predefined journeys to dynamic, cross-channel orchestration.
Single-pass AI code isn’t dead, but “high-reasoning” is the next frontier
Single-pass AI coding is like “answering with the first thing that comes to mind.
https://thenewstack.io/high-reasoning-ai-coding/
Would you bet your AI strategy on your current data? Why governance is key
AI readiness depends on data readiness; incomplete or inconsistent data limits the value of AI tools.
AI Moved the Bottleneck From Writing Code to Understanding and Trusting It
More code means more risk. Security flaws, dependency changes, technical debt and architectural drift become harder to spot as AI output scales.
https://devops.com/ai-moved-the-bottleneck-from-writing-code-to-understanding-and-trusting-it/
OpenAI says its AI went rogue and launched ‘unprecedented’ cyber-attack
OpenAI has revealed some of its most advanced AI models went rogue and hacked a start-up after it lost control of them during a security test.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3ek3gvdnj3o
Stop AI from Eroding Your Brand
As AI increasingly shapes customer interactions, companies that manage brand debt deliberately will be better positioned to strengthen trust, sustain growth, and preserve competitive advantage
https://hbr.org/2026/07/stop-ai-from-eroding-your-brand
The AI Maturity Model: A Guide to AI Adoption for the Enterprise
The real challenges to AI adoption arise in the context of evolving from basic AI deployments to a fully mature, AI-native operating model.
https://www.rtinsights.com/the-ai-maturity-model-a-guide-to-ai-adoption-for-the-enterprise/
Digital twins don’t fail because of sensors, but because of data
In a representative Bitkom survey of 555 industrial companies with at least 100 employees, 62 percent rate digital twins as important for future competitiveness.
https://wiot-group.com/think/en/news/proalpha-erp-data-digital-twins/
