Bloor Research

05/07/2026

July's First Friday Newsletter is here:

In this edition:
Bloor Research International shares the first of a five-blog Structural shift series. Every article in the series describes a structural shift, in the economy, in the workforce, in the vendor market, in the operating model of the organisation. Every article names what organisations, vendors, and policymakers need to do differently. This one addresses the question that follows directly from all of them and that most workforce commentary carefully avoids. What does the individual do?
Daniel Howard: written paper on K2View Agentic Test Data Management combines K2view’s established Test Data Management solution with the new Test Case Data Agent add-on. It builds on K2view’s pre-existing sensitive data discovery, data masking, test data provisioning, test data cloning, and synthetic data generation capabilities.
David Norfolk: Agentic AI, done wrong, can be a house built on sand - Inspired by an article in Futurism, David Norfolk examines the race to develop AI agents and the risks involved. While up to 79% of US executives are building AI agents, Gartner predicts that 40% of these projects could fail due to poor risk controls
Cheney Hamilton: on the protection gap no one legislated. Bloor Research was at Westminster to put a single question to MPs. When a person’s job is taken not by another company but by a digital worker, who protects them? Under TUPE, when work transfers between employers, the people move with it and their rights are preserved.
Decock: on Intelligence architecture not artificial intelligence. Most organisations are asking the wrong first question about AI. How fast can we adopt it. How many people can we train. How many use cases can we deploy. Those questions matter. They do not determine who benefits
Join Cheney Hamilton for two insightful webinars exploring the future of work in the age of AI. In Early Careers in the Age of AI, discover why the agentic shift is transforming entry-level roles first and why organisations must rethink us early-career pathways to develop future leaders. In FusionWork for HR, learn how FusionWork redefines work as a partnership between humans and intelligent systems, giving HR leaders the framework and language to lead this transformation proactively rather than react to it.

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The first in a five-part blog: serieshttps://lnkd.in/dqhqHJUk




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05/07/2026

This Inbrief from Daniel Howard presents how K2View Agentic Test Data Management combines K2view’s established Test Data Management solution with the new Test Case Data Agent add-on. It builds on K2view’s pre-existing sensitive data discovery, data masking, test data provisioning, test data cloning, and synthetic data generation capabilities by incorporating an agentic AI layer that interprets your test requirements and orchestrates appropriate test data creation actions across the K2view platform. In other words, it automatically creates and delivers usable, compliant test data directly from your requirements. The goal is to accelerate your test data creation and provisioning, and thereby your testing as a whole, so that it can keep up with the accelerated pace of AI-enabled software development rather than bottlenecking it.

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18/05/2026

This InDetail from Daniel Howard presents how Enov8 Enterprise Intelligence combines the capabilities of the company’s Environment Manager, Release Manager, and Test Data Manager products to create a broad platform for managing, monitoring, and automating your IT systems and both production and testing environments. In doing this, it creates a centralised “control tower” for your software development lifecycle, providing you with the means to govern it holistically and with confidence.

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Ash Hosking

19/04/2026

Friday’s BBC News feature cracks open a vital question for the digital economy: do you own the asset, or do you become the asset?

Richard Skellett Chief Analyst Research & Design at Bloor Research, spoke to the BBC about digital twins, policy, and the deeper issue of ownership in an AI-driven world.
AI isn’t just changing tasks; it’s changing the very system we operate in. Bloor Research International's analysis shows that as digital workers and AI assets grow, they reshape global GDP but leave gaps in public funding. The flow of value is shifting, and unless we redesign our operating models, individuals risk becoming assets for platforms rather than owning their digital selves.
Most organisations are running playbooks from the last industrial era, while AI is rewriting the rules. The real danger is building our digital identity inside “capture engines” owned by others. That’s dependency, not sovereignty.
The Digital Me model flips this: it’s about human ownership, attribution, and benefit. Bloor Research International are calling for new policy and regulation that make the individual, not the factory agent, the centre of the digital economy.
The time to reset is now: turn finite hours into infinite value, ensure attribution flows to the person, and build resilient models for the future. If you don’t own your digital twin … you’ll be owned by it !

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or ? It’s not every day you wake up to being feature on the BBC News and thank you to MaryLou Costa for taking the time to explore with me “ what I believe is one of the most important questions of our time “. Because whilst the article asks whether a digital twin can ...