Peggy wraps up the month, giving her final thoughts about agentic AI (artificial intelligence). She pulls back the curtain on what’s really happening behind the scenes in today’s digital transformation—and offers her candid perspective on what comes next.
She also discusses:
· The critical risks businesses must address in the days ahead.
· The four steps to take today to prepare for a better tomorrow.
· Why the time to act is now—and how companies can cut through the hype to focus on what really matters.
The cloud brings great opportunities and great trials. Cloud complexity is challenging to say the least, leading to slower innovation and greater risk and waste. What is needed is a unified approach to managing infrastructure and security across the lifecycle of a hybrid cloud. For today’s blog, let’s explore the challenges we currently face—and the opportunities that lie ahead, if we take careful and strategic steps forward.
Roughly 52% of organizations rank multi/hybrid cloud complexity among their top three infrastructure cloud-management challenges and 73% report their platform engineering team and security personnel do not work as a unified function. This is according to the 2025 Cloud Complexity Report from HashiCorp, an IBM Co. Read More…
Peggy Smedley and Alex Adamopoulos, chairman and CEO, Emergn, talk about the Global Intelligent Delusion survey and what it has revelated about today’s businesses. Roughly 75% of business leaders expect to drive revenue from AI (artificial intelligence) initiatives in the next 12 months, yet 60% acknowledge AI expectations are growing faster than their ability to meet them. He says leaders expect AI to drive growth, but most aren’t equipped to deliver at scale, saying the gap isn’t even technology, it is capability.
They also discuss:
· If the return is being overhyped and why AI projects fail.
· Why good product management is the bridge that closes this gap between expectation and capability—or ambition and execution.
· Why learning and upskilling remain critical to sustaining long-term progress and profit.
Peggy and Kate O'Neill, author, founder, and chief tech humanist, KO Insights, talk about the unlearning problem and why AI and humans share the same dangerous flaw. She says one of the issues we are facing is everything feels like it is moving so fast—and the acceleration is causing the chaos.
They also discuss:
· How we can better align human knowledge and machine intelligence.
· How and why to take a human-in-the-loop approach.
· Two pieces of advice for next steps to take.
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October: How to Secure Your Data
November: Construction Connectivity Trends to Watch