Karl A L Smith

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Eye tracking from Military to Healthcare

Like most technology innovations eye tracking started life as military technology with the best known supplier being Applied Science Laboratories or simply ASL. It was founded in 1962 by Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientists who developed their first video-based eye…

Organisational and cultural transformation in Business Agility

There are now in 2019 many people talking about organisational and cultural transformation and change however it is clear that what they mean is everyone below the C-suite needs to change. However organisational and cultural transformation is the whole organisation otherwise it is just a rebrand without actual change.

UbiNET Smart Living

UbiNET platform is a unified framework that considers all aspects of future living and is intended to deliver solutions that move humanity on from dealing with mundane transactional activities into Smart Living

Ways of Working Business Agility and Rapid Innovation service offerings proposal for Partner Role

This is the Business Plan I wrote for a Blue Chip Consultancy to adopt Business Agility to deliver New Ways of Working as a new line of business and give me a Partnership. Naturally it does not say how it…

Agile World Market Entry and Capability Building Consulting

Agile World is involved in Strategic, Tactical and Operational market entry and capability building.

True Leaders grow up Emotionally

As leaders we often review our actions against our intent, sometimes we are assured we did the right thing, other times we accept we did not and more often than most people want to admit we bluff our way through and hope no one noticed (they always do).

Why George Hotz, #Geohot thinking is superior to Elon Musk in Artificial Intelligence AI

The title of the post is perhaps a little misleading in one way, I really don’t think Elon Musk coded his AI, but I do think both he and George Hotz set the features, relationship and prioritisation around the work for their AI’s and in Georges case also built it.

Government as a Service (GaaS), Spying as a Service (SaaS) the United Kingdom exports some unexpected things

While it has long been known that the Special Air Service (SAS) conducts desert training ‘exercises’ in the Middle East in support of a number of small but strategically important Kingdoms, what’s only recently becoming known the United Kingdoms other special exports.

Karl Smith’s One Golden Nugget

I was contacted about http://www.onegoldennugget.com  and what my #nugget would be. I’m genuinely #excited about what the next and next again #generation will do. What’s your nugget? https://onegoldennugget.com/send-us-your-nugget/

Ego Ideas and the Failure of Design Thinking

Design Thinking is Not a Design Process for Designers it’s for Executives Like many great ideas that come along Design Thinking has been perverted into a one size fits all toolkit. The inception of Design Thinking as a light weight…

Engaged Democracy Lord Laird John Dunn Laird of Artigarvan UKHouseofLords

An anecdote on my experience of Lord Laird of Artigarvan, John Dunn Laird There are no doubt many people who knew Lord Laird better than I, I cannot and don’t speak for them, but just of my conversations and times in…

Fail Fast, Fail Small to avoid Failing Big and Failing Slow #BusinessAgility

You would think by this late stage in the life of Agile and Agility that the concepts would be well embedded in organisational transformation, people assessments and processes. From my experience I’ve never seen Agile actually fail, I seen people…

Speeding up the Wrong Work DevOps Maturity in Business Decisions #BusinessAgility

It’s a fact that common sense it not that common and is often not a factor except in reflection after the fact. If we could simply learn from each other rather than rely upon a uniqueness agenda, businesses would stop…

#UbiNET twin #AI #Blockchain with mutating #security #algorithm

UbiNET platform architecture is built on two key components; a twin blockchain written in an AI codebase called Ubi developed specifically for UbiNET a mutating security algorithm derived from the unique platform functional architecture By interlinking the security algorithm derived from…

5G Blockchain IoT IoT Business thingcoin UbiNET

#UbiNET Inc. expands into Florida to deliver #UbiNETPlatform

UbiNET Inc. has recently opened it’s start up office in #StPetersburg, #Florida. The company expects to launch it’s first #funding round #VC in 2018 as the technology to deliver the #UbiNETPlatform reaches maturity in 2020 with #5G and #RuralBroadband creating…

#Huawei works to end the #digitaldivide by #recycling #infrastructure for #rural #ultrabroadband

I attend a great deal of meetings all over the world and yes it does cost a fortune but feeding your mind with innovation and insight has yet to be virtualised to the point where a face to face meeting…

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UbiNET Platform from UbiNET Inc. with cryptocurrency and blockchain 2018 asset sale

The UbiNET Platform is built up from several propositions that each hold a key relationship ecosystem. UbiNET is designated a planet wide system as its architecture is designed for any planet and an in-transit mode for between planets. UbiNET Platform…

Core character traits of a True Leader

I’m writing this because I keep reading things written about leadership, written to sell a concept, define a behaviour or offer a service clearly written by people with no actual leadership experience. So while I can’t fix that situation I…

Agile World R&D company UbiNET issues two cryptocurrencies the #ThingCoin and #UbiNET-p-Token

As part of the platform development process for #SmartLiving UbiNET Inc. has launched two cryptocurrencies the ThingCoin and UbiNET-p-Token. The two currencies work together within the platform to both secure identity and enable transactions. UbiNET-p-Token is the user access token for the UbiNET platform…

Founder and Thought Leader

Karl Smith is a Founder and Director of The Human-Centered Design Society which is directly involved in central government policy in The House of Commons and The House of Lords through a number of committees including Associate Parliamentary Group for Design and…

#DigitalBusiness and #AI should use Hegelian Logic to find very different and valuable customer insights

There is a continuous drive for human to be more like machines, but the problem is they are not. No matter how well a business or product message is crafted everyone that hears it, hears it differently. They hear it…

Disruptive innovation Innovation IoT IoT Ecosystem Situational awareness Smart Living

#SmartTechnologies to #SmartLiving

Trajectory from Smart Technologies to IoT Ecosystem and on to Smart Living Something few people have grasped yet is that to get from Smart Technologies to IoT and on to Smart Living (Ubiquity) is a progression, not just in sensors,…