The Digital Transformation Playbook #31 – A Newsletter by Kieran Gilmurray

Welcome one and all to this month’s edition of The Digital Transformation Playbook. It’s jam packed with AI, automation and digital transformation content curated specifically for you.

Have fun reading what’s hot and happening and enjoy the most a perfect day.

Warmest,

Kieran Gilmurray

📰 LinkedIn - Articles:

Read a selection of hand crafted thought leadership articles from my LinkedIn channel.

1️⃣The Rise of AI Natives and What It Means for Your Business

The next generation of workers are not just digital natives. They are AI natives. Read it here

2️⃣How CEOs Are Using Digital Co-Workers to Boost Productivity by 15%

What if your new hire could analyse a million data points before you’ve finished your morning coffee? This isn’t a far off future scenario; it’s an immediate strategic opportunity. Read it here

📰 KieranGilmurray.com – Articles

Read a selection of curated thought leadership articles from my own brand website.

1️⃣ Agentic AI: The Ultimate Roadmap to Smart, Self-Driving Workflows

Let’s explore how agentic AI progresses from task-taker to autonomous problem-solver, and how you can prepare for this future. Read it here

2️⃣ Deploy Smarter Agents: What Leaders Need to Know Now

AI agents are no longer experiments, they’re driving real results. From finance to logistics, smart systems are now making decisions, not just following rules. Read it here

3️⃣ Agentic AI: Powerful Autonomy and Fearless Innovation for Businesses

We’ve come a long way from dial-up internet and paper-based processes, but few advances promise to reshape business operations as profoundly as Agentic AI. Read it here

4️⃣ Pioneering Governance in the Age of Agentic Human–AI Symbiosis

Agentic AI has arrived, ushering in a new era of leadership. These aren’t simply smarter systems or faster tools. They are autonomous actors taking initiative in finance, healthcare, product design, and more. Read it here

5️⃣ Harnessing Agentic AI: A Transformative Blueprint for Fearless Growth

Agentic AI has arrived, and it’s rewriting how organisations operate. These autonomous systems don’t wait for prompts. They pursue goals, make decisions, and adapt in real time. Read it here

👂 Podcasts

Listen to Kieran Gilmurray – The Data Doctor on Spotify. The digitally obsessed Data Doctor talks about emerging tech, intelligent automation, AI, data analytics, and Generative AI – but with an Irish twist.

1️⃣ Agentic AI: How Autonomous Agents Are Revolutionizing Business Operations and Workforce Strategy

Autonomous AI agents are no longer science fiction, they’re reshaping entire industries right now. Business leaders who don’t understand this shift risk being left behind. Listen here

2️⃣ Decoding AI: Behind the Technology That’s Changing Everything

The extraordinary evolution of artificial intelligence from academic theory to global phenomenon has forever changed how we view technology’s potential. Listen here

📰 Exclusive Articles 💎

For exclusive articles on AI, data analytics, agentic AI and generative AI visit my new Substack channel.

Find exclusive AI articles from August on my new Substack newsletter named Mastering AI.

✈️ Travel, Food and Work

August was deliberately a quiet month but it still meant:

• travelling to Dublin, Kuala Lumpur, London, and Belfast

• working with 40+ brilliant finance and marketing minds in person the iconic Irish Management Institute in Dublin, Ireland

• Helping a mate plan a successful path ahead for his media production company;

• Writing 4 new courses on AI, executive leadership, data analytics and Agentic AI

• Finalising a computer based learning course on strategic HR and AI (see below 👇)

• I wrote the outlines for 11 CBL short courses, three talks and 4 courses I will deliver in September, October and November

• I consulted with an exceptional FMCG team in Chiswick, London, before catching up with one of my oldest university friends and his amazing family over dinner and wine

• I completed the initial outline of all of the chapters of my next two books

• I also worked with my financial expert extraordinaire, a strategy professor and 5 of their amazing students from Ireland's leading university on a new multi year business strategy

• We won a 2025 top 50 award for Agentic AI, I appeared on TV and 2 podcasts

• And I signed off the redesign of my new website - EXCITED!!!.

The Most Fun Part of August?

At the start of August I delivered an course 'From Strategy to Action: HR & AI' in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It took me 25 hours of travel to get here and back. Planes, airports, jet lag…and yes, a few crying babies along the way. But every single minute was worth it. Why? Because this was more than a masterclass. It was an immersion into ideas, cultures, and connections that will stay with me for years. I adore getting my senses smashed and Kuala Lumpur delivered that in wonderful spades.

This month I am:

• Working and travelling in Dublin, consulting in London, working and grabbing dinner with a buddy in Amsterdam.

• I am also delivering keynotes in Belfast and London, teaching physically in Galway, delivering education training in Edinburgh, Oxford and Antrim, and delivering innovation and digital strategy consulting online to clients in MENA.

• Writing more chapters of my two new books and working on my business plans for 2026.

No doubt more fun things will happen as I usually leave gaps for the unexpected to appear - and the unexpected often does. What fun!

🎓 Training - AI in Human Resources 💥

I am delighted to announce that I have partnered with Denken to create two excellent adaptive, online AI and HR courses that are now available for you.

Most learning platforms take a "one-size-fits-all" approach—fixed courses, static content, and painfully slow to evolve.  Teams lose productivity, learners disengage, and organisations drown in admin just to track basic progress. Legacy LMS tools simply can't adapt to learner needs or business goals in real time. It's time for something smarter. 

Denken and I belief in adaptive, personalised learning. We believe effective learning should be as unique as the learner. 

Denken helps organisations deliver smarter training by adapting to how people really learn. Through intelligent data and diagnostics, we create personalised learning paths that boost engagement, accelerate results, and deliver skills that matter - no wasted time, no cookie-cutter content. 

We both believe learning should feel personal - not like a checkbox 

Sign up today and take courses that adapt in real-time to every individual's strength, gaps, and confidence levels.

• AI in HR: Advanced Strategic Implementation & Optimisation.

• AI in HR: Talent Acquisition & Recruitment.

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Kieran Gilmurray – The World’s 1st Chief Generative AI and Agentic AI Officer

Kieran Gilmurray is the world’s first Chief Generative AI and Agentic AI Officer. A multi-award-winning author, speaker, and strategist, he helps top global brands use advanced tech to boost customer experience, efficiency, and growth. His advice is sharp, practical, and focused on real business outcomes.

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