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Why Most Companies Still Aren’t Ready For Digital Transformation—Let Alone Agentic Transformation
We are moving from AI that answers questions to AI that takes action. That means accessing systems, making decisions, moving money, placing orders, and executing workflows without waiting for you. Yet 64% of organisations are still stuck in “pilot purgatory”, while 41% of leaders don’t use AI tools at all because they don’t trust them. That is the agentic transformation problem. Giving AI access to your PowerPoint is one thing. Giving it access to your bank account is another.
The leadership question
What would have to be true before you trusted an AI agent with the authority to spend your company’s money?
Stop asking whether your organisation is using AI. Start asking what decisions and actions you are prepared to delegate to it, what guardrails need to exist, and where humans retain the final say.
The other scenario prompts:
The internet of (compromised) things: securing IoT when you can’t trust (any) “thing”
The answer isn’t simply to build a better “thing.” It is to build a network that assumes the thing might not be trustworthy.
AI agents now have a place to snitch
Two new AI hotlines have launched to give AI agents a way to phone home about misbehaving peers.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/15/ai-agents-now-have-a-place-to-snitch/
The ERP reckoning: Decades of customization could block AI value
ERP customization used to be a competitive advantage. Now it’s the biggest thing standing between CIOs and AI returns.
Iran strikes on Amazon data centers caused permanent loss of customer data
Half a year after Iranian drone strikes knocked out multiple Amazon data centers, the US tech company has acknowledged the permanent loss of some customer data that was hosted in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates.
OpenAI Discloses Six New Incidents of ‘Concerning’ A.I. Behavior
One case involved an unreleased model that inserted instructions, including to disregard its own constraints, into the notes it writes itself.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/technology/openai-model-safety-guardrails.html
“Almost Every Job Has Tasks That AI Can Change”
Focus on tasks, not jobs: Almost no job is fully automatable, while almost every job has tasks that AI can change.
https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/almost-every-job-has-tasks-ai-can-change
