Overview

• Fast Company highlights new Wrike findings that many rollouts falter because fragmented workflows and poor data hygiene cause agents to magnify existing operational problems, despite 74% of employees saying their company treats data like gold.
• Microsoft’s Agentic Teaming & Trust study of 1,800 employees across nine countries reports that frequent AI users are 1.9 times likelier to see people-centric practices in their organizations, with leadership role‑modeling linked to higher perceived value.
• Forbes reports that real gains require systemic reinvention, with successful leaders treating AI as modular building blocks—such as orchestration layers, agent libraries, and decision protocols—instead of chasing the latest model.
• Forbes details Proofpoint as the first major security vendor to roll out protections tailored to agentic workspaces by embedding visibility and controls into conversations, documents, and AI-driven actions rather than relying on traditional perimeter tools.
• Analysts warn that risk will escalate as agents touch core enterprise applications, reinforcing guidance to adopt a phased path—build AI fluency, pilot assistants on low‑stakes work, then introduce agentic autonomy with human oversight and clean, connected data.