digital transformation #mindcandy: Shadow AI

The future is future fitness. The advantage isn’t prediction. It’s how fast your team can notice change and respond. Pick one mindcandy prompt below. Discuss it. Decide your moves. 

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Today’s prompt: Shadow AI: The emerging enterprise risk that can no longer be ignored

Shadow AI is what happens when smart people use AI to get work done faster… outside your guardrails.

That creates three predictable failure modes:

  • Data leakage by accident (customer info, pricing, contracts, HR, strategy dumped into prompts)
  • IP bleed (code, process know-how, product logic fed to public tools)
  • Compliance and audit gaps (you can’t prove what happened, by whom, using which tool, with what data)

The mistake: treating Shadow AI as a “security problem”. It’s an operating system problem: your official path is slower than the shadow path.

https://www.expresscomputer.in/guest-blogs/shadow-ai-the-emerging-enterprise-risk-that-can-no-longer-be-ignored/131991/

Other prompts:

My latests book about books about AI

Data, acceleration, and the future of intelligence: Lessons from 25 core books about AI, technology abstraction, and consciousness.

https://www.ronimmink.com/product/a-book-about-books-about-ai/

How AI Is Changing Businesses’ Infrastructure Strategies

Why AI Is Pulling Compute Back On-Premises

https://biztechmagazine.com/article/2026/01/how-ai-changing-businesses-infrastructure-strategies

How enterprise architecture and start-up thinking drive strategic success

Enterprise architecture works best today when it borrows start-up habits — testing fast, learning quickly and scaling what actually delivers value.

https://www.cio.com/article/4120725/how-enterprise-architecture-and-start-up-thinking-drive-strategic-success.html

First memristor-based cellular neural network cuts power demands

A research team has developed a brain-inspired sensing system that combines a touch sensor with a smart memory chip that only reacts when necessary to improve energy efficiency and computing speed.

https://www.rdworldonline.com/first-memristor-based-cellular-neural-network-cuts-power-demands/

Decision Velocity: The New Metric That’s Reshaping Enterprise Data Architecture

The metric that matters most now is decision velocity. How quickly can teams move from question to action? If you’re still waiting days for analysis that AI should surface in minutes, the implementation isn’t working yet.

https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbestechcouncil/2026/01/22/decision-velocity-the-new-metric-thats-reshaping-enterprise-data-architecture/

The Real Attack Surface Isn’t Code Anymore — It’s Business Users

We’re entering an era where the most dangerous vulnerabilities aren’t in the code AppDev teams write, but in the thousands of workflows and automations business users build on their own

https://www.technewsworld.com/story/the-real-attack-surface-isnt-code-anymore-its-business-users-180111.html

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