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Digital transformation #mindcandy 5 September 2025
The topics are you are 25 books about AI, low-code, analogies to understand digital transformation, AI as a utility imperative, automation, Switzerland, building startups, reducing agentic AI risk, digital twinning, and non-human resources (NHRs).
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Data, acceleration, and the future of intelligence: Lessons from 25 core books (and links to 114 other books) about AI, technology abstraction, and consciousness.
Accelerating Digital Transformation with AI and Low-Code
Companies are increasingly seeing Low-Code development as having strategic importance for its growth, with a growing number of companies reporting the infusion of Low-Code and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to increase development speed and transform how technology delivers value.
Analogies to understand digital transformation
https://www.telefonica.com/en/communication-room/blog/analogies-understand-digital-transformation/
The history of the universe, the origin of life, evolution, and natural selection are closer than we think to helping us understand the importance of the digital transformation of our processes and businesses
Powering the future: Why AI-ready systems are now a utility imperative
https://www.ibm.com/think/insights/ai-ready-systems-utility-imperative
As three forces converge—regulatory urgency, growing investor scrutiny of digital readiness and the rapid adoption of generative AI—2025 is shaping up to be a breaking point.
Kissflow’s latest research reveals 86% of CIOs have adopted low-code platforms
The enterprise application development landscape is undergoing a profound shift, with new research showing that CIOs are moving away from traditional development approaches to meet growing business demands.
How Automation Solves Common F&B Production Challenges
https://www.rtinsights.com/how-automation-solves-common-fb-production-challenges/
From ensuring consistent batch quality and eliminating manual inefficiencies to accelerating changeovers and improving overall plant agility, automation is the key to unlocking a smarter, more resilient production operation.
Switzerland enters AI race with ‘transparent’ LLM
Designed as a hopeful alternative to existing models, for example Llama and OpenAI, Apertus is, according to the developers, defined by its transparency, which it says can be seen throughout the entire development process, via its architecture, model weights, training data and recipes, which are “openly accessible and fully documented”.
AI will change how we build startups — but how?
https://andrewchen.substack.com/p/ai-will-change-how-we-build-startups
Defensibility, capital, staffing, organisation, location, fragmentation, and fund raising.
Reducing Agentic AI Risk in the Enterprise: A Playbook for Corporate Leaders
The Promise and the Peril of Agentic AI
First, Digital Twins of Patients, Now a Digital Twin of a Doctor
https://www.rtinsights.com/first-digital-twins-of-patients-now-a-digital-twin-of-a-doctor/
Unlike traditional virtual assistants, this digital twin is trained on Dr. Mansoor’s public health expertise, thought process, unique medical expertise, published work, and educational content. It is built on a medical-specific large language model (LLM) designed to understand health-related conversations with contextual relevance — while operating strictly within pre-defined educational boundaries.
Your smartest employee might not be human
https://www.techradar.com/pro/your-smartest-employee-might-not-be-human
Just as human workers come under the umbrella of human resources (HR), it’s useful to think of agents as non-human resources (NHRs). Just like humans, there are costs to employing NHRs
