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Dux Raymond Sy @meetdux.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A real Microsoft sign-in page can still be part of a phishing attack. The victim completes MFA for the attacker’s session. I explain device-code phishing in this clip. Watch my full CyberCall interview: lnkd.in/p/dPaPF9WR #Cybersecurity

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Dux Raymond Sy @meetdux.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Useful AI starts with everyday friction. Javier Inclán on saving colleagues time while keeping ethics central. #shifthappens archive, Jan 2025. Listen: www.avepoint.com/shifthappens...

Official #shifthappens podcast cover: a white microphone and headphones above the words “#shifthappens PODCAST” on a red background.

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Dux Raymond Sy @meetdux.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Healthcare organizations blocking AI adoption entirely are not gaining safety. They are losing visibility. Jenn Johnson, EVP of Privacy and Security at Kuma, has spent her career watching what happens when governance cannot keep pace with where AI is already operating inside healthcare workflows.

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Dux Raymond Sy @meetdux.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

86% of organizations delayed AI agent rollouts by an average of six months. Gartner predicts over 40% of agentic AI projects will be canceled by end of 2027. The technology is not the problem. Ownership is.

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Dux Raymond Sy @meetdux.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

A freelancer paid £400 to an AI law firm. She was owed £7,000. The other side showed up with a solicitor and a barrister. She won. Both the claim and the counterclaim against her. In the same stretch, two elite law firms had to self-report AI hallucinations in actual court filings.

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Dux Raymond Sy @meetdux.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

82% of business leaders call this the pivotal year to redesign with AI. 62% of employees feel their leaders are overlooking the emotional cost of doing so. That gap is where small business AI adoption quietly breaks down.

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Dux Raymond Sy @meetdux.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Most org charts were built to show who reports to whom. They were not built for a world where AI agents can draft, analyze, route, and initiate actions without direct supervision. That gap is where accountability quietly disappears.

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Dux Raymond Sy @meetdux.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

99.5% of organizations already implement some form of AI literacy intervention. Yet more than four in ten employees are minimally prepared to work alongside AI agents. Exposure to AI does not guarantee readiness for it.

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Dux Raymond Sy @meetdux.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Salesforce has over 50 individual use cases across government agencies. And the average cost of a data breach is almost $5 million. For public sector organizations handling citizen data, that number carries political and legal consequences too.

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Dux Raymond Sy @meetdux.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

A company reportedly burned through its entire 2026 AI budget in four months. Five major AI headlines this week. Different stories. One missing answer in all of them: who actually owns this decision?

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Dux Raymond Sy @meetdux.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

AI has a way of making organizational problems impossible to ignore. Bud Caddell, Founder of NOBL, has spent his career watching it happen. His take on why AI adoption stalls is one of the most honest perspectives I have come across.

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Dux Raymond Sy @meetdux.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Creatives are not being replaced by AI. The ones who figure out how to work alongside it are just going to be significantly harder to compete with.

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Dux Raymond Sy @meetdux.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

돌다리도 두들겨 보고 건너라. Even a stone bridge should be tapped before you cross it. 98% of AI companies in South Korea do not yet have a compliance system in place for the AI Basic Act that took effect in January. The bridge looks solid. Almost nobody has tapped it yet.

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Dux Raymond Sy @meetdux.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The World Cup just showed us what AI-powered sports looks like at scale. Real-time stats. Personalized fan experiences. Social media protection for players. And the next Olympics is already raising the bar even further.

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Dux Raymond Sy @meetdux.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

85% of enterprises will adopt multi-cloud in 2025. Most of them will also spend years managing the complexity they created trying to avoid vendor lock-in.

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Dux Raymond Sy @meetdux.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

A CEO recently fired engineers who did not immediately sign up to try the company's AI tool. It made headlines. For all the wrong reasons. Over 75% of organizations are using generative AI. The ones getting adoption right are not mandating it.

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Dux Raymond Sy @meetdux.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The AI tools that get abandoned all have one thing in common. They were built for the demo. Not for the person using them.

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Dux Raymond Sy @meetdux.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

You are not just paying for AI once. You are paying in dollars. And in the proprietary knowledge you hand over just to make it useful. Satya Nadella wrote about this. It has not left me since.

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Dux Raymond Sy @meetdux.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

79% of organizations are already using AI agents. Over half have achieved broad or full adoption. The technology is here. The trust and control mechanisms to support it are still catching up.

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Dux Raymond Sy @meetdux.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

We keep talking about AI adoption because it keeps being hard to sustain. And that is exactly why it is worth revisiting. Claire Engels, Senior Manager at Versuni, has seen what happens when organizations skip the fundamentals and try to scale before habits are built.

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Dux Raymond Sy @meetdux.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

51% of MSPs say governance and compliance is their primary barrier to AI readiness. Not technical expertise. Not security. Not integration. Governance. AI readiness is not a tooling problem. It is an operational one.

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Dux Raymond Sy @meetdux.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

A Chief Strategy Officer fired half her AI agents. Not because the technology failed. Because she was spending more time supervising them than doing actual work. Sol Rashidi called it "botsitting." And it is more common than most organizations want to admit.

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Dux Raymond Sy @meetdux.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

In 2022, the GAO audited 17 federal agencies on electronic record-keeping compliance. Only 1 passed. Out of 17. And the US federal government spends over $100 billion on IT each year, with most of it going toward maintaining the legacy systems causing the problem.

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Dux Raymond Sy @meetdux.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Organizations that invested in maturing IT processes were 6x less likely to be breached than those spending the same resources on cybersecurity tools. Greg van der Gaast, Founder of Sequoia Consulting, has seen this pattern across intelligence work and CISO leadership. The fix is rarely more tools.

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Dux Raymond Sy @meetdux.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

After the Microsoft AI tools guide dropped, the same three questions kept coming up. Where is Copilot Chat? What is Scout for? And why is there no governance layer for any of them? This version answers all three. Nine tools. And every single one now has a governance check next to it.

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Dux Raymond Sy @meetdux.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

86% of organizations delayed AI deployments by up to a year because of security and data quality concerns. The instinct to slow down feels responsible. In practice, it often creates an entirely new set of risks.

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Dux Raymond Sy @meetdux.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

The AI economy just crossed $175 billion in annualized revenue. In 2023 it took 180 days to add each new $1 billion. Today it takes less than two days. The money is moving faster than most organizations can govern it.

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Dux Raymond Sy @meetdux.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Companies that implement AI governance get 12 times more AI projects into production. Not 12 percent more. 12 times. Most organizations still treat governance as the thing that slows AI down. The data says the opposite.

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Dux Raymond Sy @meetdux.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

In 2024, there were over 40,000 reported security vulnerabilities. A 38.6% increase from the year before. Most of them did not come from a lack of security tools. They came from having too many, poorly integrated ones.

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Dux Raymond Sy @meetdux.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

63% of organizations have fully or partially implemented a zero trust strategy. Yet CIOs and CTOs are still asking the same question: "We have zero trust in place. So why are our people bypassing the system?"

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Dux Raymond Sy @meetdux.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Getting AI into production is the easy part. Getting it to stick is where most organizations fall short. Ally Ward, M365 Product and Platform Services Manager at a global law firm, has seen exactly what happens when AI moves beyond the demo and into day-to-day enterprise reality.

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Dux Raymond Sy @meetdux.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Companies are quietly rolling back promotions for remote employees. Only 46% of employees feel adequately supported in their career advancement. In a world where 32.6 million Americans will work remotely by 2025, that number should stop every leader in their tracks.

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Dux Raymond Sy @meetdux.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

The intern who got the job did not stand out because of her technical skills. She got it because she talked passionately about growing spring onions. Angela Chen, Microsoft Communications Lead, calls this your most underrated career asset.

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Dux Raymond Sy @meetdux.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Copilot Cowork went live this week. The billing started. And most organizations have no idea what hits July 1. The math every CIO needs to run before enabling Cowork in their tenant is not complicated. But skipping it will be costly.

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Dux Raymond Sy @meetdux.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Nearly 20% of organizations cite compliance as a barrier to AI adoption. But compliance is not the culprit. Your data governance is.

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Dux Raymond Sy @meetdux.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Almost half of companies say they have already created a c-suite AI role or plan to within the next year. But does every organization actually need one?

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Dux Raymond Sy @meetdux.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

You have 5 Microsoft AI tools. Most people are using the wrong one for the job. M365 Copilot. Copilot Cowork. Copilot Studio. Azure AI Foundry. GitHub Copilot. Each one does something different - and knowing which to use changes everything.

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Dux Raymond Sy @meetdux.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

AI can find talent faster than ever. It still cannot tell you who will hold a team together when things get hard. After talking with Travis Hann, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Pender & Howe, here is what separates leaders who build teams that last from those who just fill seats quickly:

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Dux Raymond Sy @meetdux.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

AI in the public sector runs on one thing: clean, secure, well-governed data. 69% of state government data management strategies are still in the beginning stages. That gap is what makes AI adoption harder than it needs to be.

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Dux Raymond Sy @meetdux.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Senior government leaders are not asking what AI can do anymore. They are asking how to make it stick. Three things separate AI experimentation from real transformation: a solid data foundation, use cases tied to actual pain points, and governance that earns trust.

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Dux Raymond Sy @meetdux.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Meta was fined $1.3 billion for violating GDPR. Non-compliance is not a minor risk anymore. 90% of organizations report difficulties in their cloud adoption journeys, and traditional data governance models are not built for multi-cloud environments.

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Dux Raymond Sy @meetdux.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Most organizations are great at starting AI experiments. Very few are designed to finish them. Only 11.7% of organizations move directly from AI validation into full production rollout. The problem is not the PoC. It is what happens after it works.

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Dux Raymond Sy @meetdux.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

The capacity chasm is real. More tools alone won't close it. Shawn Villaron, VP at Microsoft, joined episode 116 of #shifthappens to break down what actually moves the needle: trust, curiosity, and giving teams room to experiment.

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Dux Raymond Sy @meetdux.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

AI adoption is accelerating across industries. Trust is taking longer to build. That gap has become a key challenge for organizations scaling AI.

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Dux Raymond Sy @meetdux.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

McKinsey logged 100B AI tokens this year: ~86B words of AI-generated output. But how many of those replaced a human conversation? AI is making us more productive. But is it making us lonelier?

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Dux Raymond Sy @meetdux.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Your organization is storing data it collected, forgot about, and still pays to keep: Old SharePoint files. Abandoned Teams channels. Stale OneDrive links never revoked. That's dark data, and it was a quiet problem until you turned on Copilot.

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Dux Raymond Sy @meetdux.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

The cities getting autonomous transit right lead with empathy before they lead with technology. After talking with Michael Kelly, former CSO of Mozee, here is what separates deployments that earn lasting trust from those that stall at the pilot stage:

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Dux Raymond Sy @meetdux.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Your AI proof of concept worked. The demo impressed. Leadership celebrated. And then… nothing. Only 11.7% of organizations move directly from AI validation to full production. The PoC isn't the problem > It's that most orgs have no defined path for what comes after success.

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Dux Raymond Sy @meetdux.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

The #1 barrier to AI adoption isn't technical > It's actually communication. 64% of employees say "lack of perceived value" is why AI stalls at their org. That's not a tool problem. That's a messaging problem.

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Dux Raymond Sy @meetdux.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

AI in healthcare is full of promises: Diagnostics. Predictive analytics. Tools that reduce clinician burnout. But after talking with Ghazenfer Mansoor, CEO of Technology Rivers, here's what actually separates orgs making progress from those still stuck at the pilot stage:

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