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Digital transformation still needs legacy minds
Technology moves fast. Wisdom takes time. As AI and automation accelerate, experienced employees bring something increasingly valuable: context, pattern recognition, institutional memory, and judgment. The future is not young versus old. It is new technology combined with accumulated wisdom.
That is also a core theme in my latest book, “Stop Predicting: 13 lessons from 1,400 attempts to see what was coming“. Better foresight comes from better interpretation, not more prediction.
- https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbesbusinesscouncil/2026/09/01/digital-transformation-why-new-technologies-still-need-legacy-minds/
The leadership question
Are you accidentally removing the people who understand why your organisation works?
The future fitness move
Combine technological fluency with institutional wisdom. Do not let digital transformation become organisational amnesia.
The other prompts:
The Future of AI Infrastructure: Trends Shaping the Next Decade
The forces reshaping AI infrastructure investment, geography, and design over the coming years.
https://theaiinsider.tech/2026/08/28/the-future-of-ai-infrastructure-trends-shaping-the-next-decade/
AI could become conscious. What if it wants us dead?
Today’s advanced artificial systems already display mathematical markers of integrated information processing comparable to basic biological minds.
https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/6056562-ai-consciousness-societal-impact/
AI Is Turning Data Governance Into A Competitive Advantage
AI is evolving faster than governance frameworks and regulatory environments can keep up.
Your Coworkers Are Becoming “Meat Proxies” for AI
The slang expression perfectly encompasses ongoing concerns over willingness to give over critical thinking skills to the machine.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/coworkers-becoming-meat-proxies-ai
AI’s worst disasters will arrive unannounced
The greatest AI dangers may not arrive with a mushroom cloud. They may arrive quietly, one apparently reasonable step at a time. Re-read: https://www.ronimmink.com/if-ai-has-taken-over-the-world-would-it-let-you-know/
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/30/ais-worst-disasters-will-arrive-unannounced
The system was green. The line was down: Where AI is delivering value in supply chains
The most effective supply chain AI applications connect risk signals with operational systems, workflows and human decision-makers who can change outcomes
https://www.scmr.com/article/where-ai-is-delivering-value-in-supply-chains
The hidden cost of data sovereignty: When governance prevents scaling
Organizations have spent years building operating models designed for scale.Today, many of those efficiencies are being challenged by an increasingly fragmented regulatory landscape
How to “digest” your IoT data
Many organisations are now realising that simply collecting more data doesn’t necessarily improve their operational performance,
https://www.dcvelocity.com/technology/how-to-digest-your-iot-data
Embrace Your Apex Predators: AI enables a new breed of employee ready to rewrite the rules. CEOs need to champion them ASAP
Any company of scale now has at least a dozen employees privately mastering the capabilities of AI to do the work of many specialists. There’s nothing ordinary about these early adopters. In fact, they are best described as apex predators.
