Digital transformation isn’t about foresight. It’s about response speed. Signals are everywhere, in data, behaviour, technology shifts, and customer friction. Most organisations still notice them too late, or act too slowly.
Pick one mindcandy prompt below. Discuss it. Decide your moves.
Mindcandy Club turns this into a no-nonsense future-fitness system for CEOs — a repeatable leadership rhythm to sense early, decide fast, and keep options open. You can still join.
Today´s prompt: levelling up
This is about agency. AI is already interpreting bodies, cognition, performance, and potential faster than humans can. Self-understanding is becoming a technology stack.What happens when employees upgrade themselves faster than the organisation upgrades its assumptions? If your leadership model still treats “the human” as a black box, you’re already behind.
https://nerdbot.com/2026/01/05/how-ai-and-data-analytics-are-reshaping-human-self-perception/
The CEO Question
Which assumptions about human capability and performance is your organisation still hard-coding into roles, incentives, and systems — and how close are they to expiring?
Other prompts:
My latest book about books about AI, “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.
https://www.ronimmink.com/product/a-book-about-books-about-ai/
How leaders increase ROI from AI adoption
Strategy, domain, skills, point solutions, scalability, humans, data and culture.
https://www.wtwco.com/en-hk/insights/2025/12/how-leaders-increase-roi-from-ai-adoption
Open Source: Inside 2025’s 4 Biggest Trends
The biggest open source stories in 2025 clustered around AI, licensing/governance, security and the shift in the “commercial open source” business model.
https://thenewstack.io/open-source-inside-2025s-4-biggest-trends/
5 CIO predictions for AI in 2026
IT leaders will look to make use of agentic systems, focus on projects with productivity gains and rethink workforce strategies next year.
https://www.ciodive.com/news/5-cio-predictions-for-ai-in-2026/807951/
50+ Expert Predictions: Ways to Drive Agentic AI, Data Governance, and Security in 2026
Look out for voice AI, growing adoption of agent-to-agent orchestrations, and geospatial AI models as potential innovation disruptors. Trust, accountability, and intent protection are key themes in AI governance and security.
https://drive.starcio.com/2025/12/predictions-agentic-ai-data-governance-security-2026/
The wild, wild year in AI: 2025’s biggest moments in AI to date
The whole world has gone mad for artificial intelligence. These are the key moments, movers and shakers of AI in 2025 thus far
https://www.raconteur.net/technology/ai-scrollytelling
AI Agents, Real-Time Connectivity Defining ERP’s Future
ERP systems are transitioning to AI-native architectures, embedding autonomous agents into workflows, which enhances efficiency in finance, supply chain, and manufacturing sectors.
https://erp.today/ai-agents-real-time-connectivity-defining-erps-future/
Top 5 Unstructured Data Management Predictions for 2026
Uncontrolled data growth, swelling budgets, and data classification are among the top risks for data management in 2026.
https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/business/top-5-unstructured-data-management-predictions-for-2026
The 24/7 data pipeline: Architecting the always-on data platform
The future belongs to organizations that treat data not as infrastructure but as a core business function, brining into prominence the business of data. Data must be managed with the same rigor as finance, scaled with the same urgency as operations, and trusted with the same discipline as compliance.
Scientists Create a “Periodic Table” for Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence is increasingly relied on to combine and interpret different kinds of data, including text, images, audio, and video. One obstacle that continues to slow progress in multimodal AI is deciding which algorithmic approach best fits the specific task an AI system is meant to solve.
https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-create-a-periodic-table-for-artificial-intelligence/
