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Digital transformation #mindcandy 6 November 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
- AI and organised crime
- The autonomous era
- Digital resilience
- Shadow AI
- AGI
- Digital transformation
- AI governance
- The rise of citizen development
- AI at the edge
- The coming flood of AI spaghetti code
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 Impact of AI on Organized Crime
https://trendsresearch.org/insight/the-impact-of-ai-on-organized-crime/
Read https://www.ronimmink.com/cyber-security-future-crimes-and-the-dark-side-of-technology/
Agentic AI Unleashed: Rewiring Enterprise Operations for the Autonomous Era
Agentic AI is revolutionizing enterprise operations by enabling autonomous decision-making and workflow execution, with early adopters in finance and healthcare seeing major efficiency gains.
Building digital resilience: Why cyber is no longer just a technology concern
https://www.imd.org/ibyimd/artificial-intelligence/why-cyber-is-no-longer-just-a-technology-concern/
From psychological manipulation tactics to social engineering and weaponized wearable technology, 2025 has seen it all.
Shadow AI: The hidden agents beyond traditional governance
https://www.cio.com/article/4083473/shadow-ai-the-hidden-agents-beyond-traditional-governance.html
As AI adoption accelerates across the enterprise, a quieter risk is emerging in its wake: employees are deploying intelligent tools faster than organizations can govern them.
How AGI became the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time
The idea that machines will be as smart as—or smarter than—humans has hijacked an entire industry. But look closely and you’ll see it’s a myth that persists for many of the same reasons conspiracies do.
Whatever happened to digital transformation?
https://omdia.tech.informa.com/om138386/whatever-happened-to-digital-transformation
The term “digital transformation” has been replaced by AI and cloud-driven transformation and network autonomy.
Memo to CIOs – you’re going to lose your jobs if you don’t pay more heed to AI governance! Boomi’s Steve Lucas on lessons for IT leadership to learn from Jurassic Park
To paraphrase the Jeff Goldblum quote from Jurassic Park, ‘We were so infatuated with whether or not we could, we didn’t stop and think if we should.’ With AI, no one feels like they can keep up with the pace of change and innovation, but, at the same time, no one wants to fall behind.
How process experts are accelerating digitalisation: The rise of citizen development
To sustain this model, many organisations are cultivating what are known as ‘purple’ skills, a blend of the ‘blue’ strengths of IT (data, architecture, and governance) with the ‘red’ strengths of operations (process knowledge and improvement culture).
Why AI at the Edge Will Define the Future of IoT
https://www.mediatek.com/tek-talk-blogs/why-ai-at-the-edge-will-define-the-future-of-iot
Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming the way we live and work, but the real breakthrough for IoT won’t come from datacenters alone. It will come from the edge – that is on-device, where the original request happened
The Coming Flood of AI Spaghetti Code: A Warning Every CIO Will Wish They Took Seriously
There is a moment in every technology wave when acceleration starts to feel like progress, but underneath it, a hidden cost is forming. AI has now reached that moment in the enterprise
