Digital transformation #mindcandy: I help organisations become future-fit. Digital transformation #mindcandy scenario prompts are designed to stretch your imagination and sharpen situational awareness. Find out more here.
Today´s prompt: The Enterprise Nervous System: Designing for Sensing, Not Just Scaling
Most enterprises are built to process, not to sense.
An Enterprise Nervous System (ENS) is a layered design that continuously turns weak signals into insight and action — in near real time. It only works when three things come together:
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real-time data movement
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distributed intelligence (humans + AI + agents)
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automated execution
Without this loop, organisations scale blindness faster.
https://www.techmahindra.com/insights/views/enterprise-nervous-system-designing-sensing-not-just-scaling/
The CEO question:
Where in your organisation do signals die before they become decisions?
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Other prompts:
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.
The Enterprise Nervous System: Designing for Sensing, Not Just Scaling
ENS is a layered design approach that continuously turns signals into insight and action, enabling an enterprise to sense, interpret, and respond in real time. For this sensing loop to operate reliably at scale, the architecture must combine real-time data movement, distributed intelligence, and automated execution.
When Supply Chains Become Autonomous
The latest generation of generative AI models can now autonomously manage supply chains. But managers should be aware that success depends on model selection, guardrails, curated data sharing, and prompt design.
https://hbr.org/2025/12/when-supply-chains-become-autonomous
Study: AI Chatbots Choose Friends Just Like Humans Do
As AI wheedles its way into our lives, how it behaves socially is becoming a pressing question. A new study suggests AI models build social networks in much the same way as humans.
https://singularityhub.com/2025/12/09/study-ai-chatbots-choose-friends-just-like-humans-do/
The 2026 cybersecurity predictions bonanza
Synthetic identity epidemic, AI-poisoned supply chains, data heists, web 4.0, quantum, identity sprawl, MCP, data, zero trust, insurance, Cybercrime-as-a-Service (CaaS), AI-driven worms, agentic ransomware, observability, prompt injection, security orchestrators, resilience versus prevention and more.
https://www.frontier-enterprise.com/the-2026-cybersecurity-predictions-bonanza/
How classic digital transformation lessons apply to AI—and what’s different this time around
AI is moving too fast for you to plan. Given the breakneck pace of AI development, he believes companies instead need to develop a “much more emergent process.” For leaders, this means first getting comfortable with the idea of “directive emergence,” and then remaining grounded in outcomes, not tools
https://fortune.com/2025/12/12/digital-transformation-artificial-intelligence-mit-sloan-aiq/
How GenAI is Reshaping the Modern Data Architecture
GenAI Must move to where the data lives
https://hackernoon.com/how-genai-is-reshaping-the-modern-data-architecture
ERP Leaders Declare AI Agents, Connectivity as the Core of ERP’s Next Evolution
100% of the 20 senior ERP leaders surveyed selected AI and automation as a top priority for 2026, while 82% cited emerging technology as the biggest driver of company innovation.
https://erp.today/erp-leaders-declare-ai-agents-connectivity-as-the-core-of-erps-next-evolution/
Stop running two architectures
Modernization doesn’t pay off if you keep the old stack alive. Retiring legacy, not just building the new, is what finally frees up cost and speed.
https://www.cio.com/article/4105133/stop-running-two-architectures.html
