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Digital transformation #mindcandy 29 October 2025
The topics are:
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- You are the upgrade, a summary of 25 books about AI, the conclusion is that the only way forward is augmented natural intelligence
- Blockchain and IoT
- AI agents
- Technical debt
- Unstructured data
- AI models with own ‘survival drive’
- The AI ethics trust engine
- Agentic AI
- ERP
- AI maturity
You are the upgrade
Data, acceleration, and the future of intelligence: Lessons from 25 core books (and links to 114 other books) about AI, technology abstraction, and consciousness.
Is Blockchain + IoT the Next Big Industrial Revolution?
https://www.blockchain-council.org/blockchain/blockchain-iot-industrial-revolution/
The idea of combining blockchain with the Internet of Things (IoT) is gaining serious traction in 2025. With billions of devices already collecting and sharing data, industries face challenges of trust, transparency, and scalability.
Securing AI agents: A guide to authentication, authorization, and defense
https://workos.com/blog/securing-ai-agents
From helpful assistants to unpredictable actors, AI agents introduce powerful capabilities—and serious security risks. This guide breaks down how to authenticate them, control what they can access, and defend your systems when things go wrong.
Why Low‑Code Modernization Can Shrink Your Tech Debt Overnight
https://news.designrush.com/low-code-modernization-solves-technical-debt-enterprises
As legacy systems quietly accumulate costs and risks, low-code modernization offers a faster, less disruptive path to reducing technical debt.
Protecting And Managing Unstructured Data At Scale
https://cybersecurityventures.com/protecting-and-managing-unstructured-data-at-scale/
We’re facing what can feel like an impossible challenge: Cutting spend while unstructured data continues to grow, reducing risk from ransomware, while enabling high performance global collaboration, and getting AI ready.
AI models may be developing their own ‘survival drive’, researchers say
Certain models, in particular Grok 4 and GPT-o3, still attempted to sabotage shutdown instructions in the updated setup. Concerningly, wrote Palisade, there was no clear reason why.
The AI ethics trust engine
https://www.ibm.com/thought-leadership/institute-business-value/en-us/report/ai-ethics-business-case
In a survey of 915 global executives, we found that organizations investing more in AI ethics consistently achieve higher operating profit, stronger return on investment (ROI), and measurable competitive advantage from AI.
Designing a Successful Agentic AI System
https://hbr.org/2025/10/designing-a-successful-agentic-ai-system
To realize its promise, companies must design workflows around outcomes and appoint mission owners who define the mission, steer both humans and AI agents, and own the outcome; unlock the data silos it needs to access and clarify the business logic underpinning it; and develop the leaders and guardrails that these intelligent systems require.
Is agentic AI the beginning of the end for ERP?
https://www.computerweekly.com/feature/Is-agentic-AI-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-ERP
The rise of agentic AI promises much for ERP, possibly even its supersession. But ERP isn’t dead – it’s evolving as it seeks to govern AI
Mind the AI cavern: what will define the leaders and the laggards in 2026?
https://www.raconteur.net/technology/ai-leaders-laggards-2026
A report by ServiceNow, a software company, revealed the average enterprise AI maturity score dropped nine points from 44 to 35 over the past 12 months, suggesting many are struggling to keep up with the speed of innovation.
