Stop downplaying the tectonic shifts that could hit every job
Digital transformation #mindcandy 19 June 2025
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Digital transformation #mindcandy 19 June 2025
The topics are cyber security, data, EPM first, CMOs, the rise of AI corporate citizens, enterprise CIOs, AI metrics, and leadership in the AI age
The cybersecurity workforce is shifting — AI agents are leading the charge
Amazon.com Inc. is redefining security at the intersection of AI, physical safety and public-private collaboration. Its evolving strategy blends digital resilience with real-world safeguards to counter the speed and complexity of today’s threat landscape
Why Ignoring Data Is Derailing AI-Driven Digital Transformation
https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbestechcouncil/2025/06/16/why-ignoring-data-is-derailing-ai-driven-digital-transformation-and-accurate-sales-forecasting/
AI isn't a magic bullet. It depends on accurate, timely and complete data to function correctly. If that data is fragmented, outdated or biased, the AI outputs, no matter how advanced the algorithm, will be flawed
Accelerate value realisation from your ERP transformation by adopting an EPM-first approach
https://www.pwc.com.au/digitalpulse/erp-transformation-adopting-epm-first-approach.html
An Enterprise Performance Management-first approach enables Finance to establish its role as a Strategic Business Partner
Why Modern CMOs Can’t Ignore Backend Infrastructure Anymore
Marketing leaders don’t need to code — but they do need to understand how site speed, metadata and AI-driven search shape visibility and CX.
When can AI make good decisions? The rise of AI corporate citizens
As agentic AI begins to influence decisions at scale, forward-looking organizations need to reimagine governance, trust, and operating models—or risk falling behind.
How 100 Enterprise CIOs Are Building and Buying Gen AI in 2025
https://a16z.com/ai-enterprise-2025/
Enterprise AI budgets grew beyond already high forecasts and graduated from pilot programs and innovation funds to recurring line-items in core IT and business unit budgets.
AI metrics
https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2025/6/9/generative-ais-metrics-question
With every platform shift, we want to measure the growth but we’re confused about what to measure. That’s partly a problem of data and definitions, but it’s really a question about what this is going to be.
Wake-up call: Leadership in the AI age
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/20/ai-leadership
Stop downplaying the tectonic shifts that could hit every job, starting next year. Employees need the hard truth that entire classes of jobs could be wiped away, especially if people don't quickly adapt.
You are the upgrade
You can order my latest book about books about AI, “You are the upgrade, augmented natural intelligence as the only way forward” here.
Data, acceleration, and the future of intelligence: Lessons from 25 core books (and links to 114 other books) about AI, technology abstraction, and consciousness.