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Scenario prompt 2 September 2025
The scenario prompt for today is (digital) transformation. Concepts such as minimal viable data, the edge is the enterprise, living intelligence, the end of software upgrades, AI, and the impact of that transformation on your innovation capabilities.
The other prompts for today are you are the upgrade, data, enterprise IT, the great unbundling, document management, AI killing you, and engineering trends in 2025.
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You are the upgrade
https://www.ronimmink.com/product/a-book-about-books-about-ai/
Data, acceleration, and the future of intelligence: Lessons from 25 core books (and links to 114 other books) about AI, technology abstraction, and consciousness.
How to Make Data Work for What’s Next
https://www.bigdatawire.com/2025/08/29/how-to-make-data-work-for-whats-next/
The push to adopt AI is forcing a lot of organizations to take a harder look at their data. Leaders want to take advantage of new tools and technologies, but they’re starting to see that their current data isn’t set up for what’s coming next. Find the Minimum Viable Data
Five connectivity trends that will redefine enterprise IT in 2026 and beyond
The edge is the enterprise. The future of the enterprise will be shaped at the edge. This is where customers are served, employees engage, and data is generated.
The Great Unbundling: Can Agentic AI End Forced ERP Upgrades?
https://www.cdotrends.com/story/4681/great-unbundling-can-agentic-ai-end-forced-erp-upgrades
The enterprise software industry perfected a beautiful deal. Every three to five years, the big players dangle the carrot of “innovation” while wielding the stick of discontinued support. Companies spend millions on upgrades they may not need, rebuilding functionality they already have. The alternative is unthinkable: being left behind on “unsupported” legacy systems.
Engineering Document Management Enters a New Era with AI
https://www.rtinsights.com/engineering-document-management-enters-a-new-era-with-ai/
AI is reshaping engineering document management, moving it beyond static file storage to dynamic, decision-ready documentation ecosystems.
How AI can kill you
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/01/ai-safety-chatbot-teen-suicide
There’s a flip side to the drumbeat of AI breakthroughs that lead to billion-dollar spending sprees and a promised future of abundance where robots do everything for us: the robots might kill us before we get there.
The innovation–risk tightrope: governing GenAI in the enterprise
As GenAI reshapes business, governance must evolve from a compliance checkbox to a driver of responsible innovation
The Future of Engineering: Top Trends Shaping the Industry in 2025
https://www.automate.org/news/the-future-of-engineering-top-trends-shaping-the-industry-in-2025
AI, autonomous systems, quantum and hybrid engineering, sustainability, biotech, and living intelligence.
