A new perspective with Karl A L Smith Interview
Karl A L Smith unpacks the latest technology trends in this episode, a must-listen for business leaders looking to prioritise investment. A new perspective with Karl A L Smith Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, Google Podcasts Transcript Speaker 1: Ready to explore…
State of Agile Culture 2023 with Agile World ®
Agile World ® is supporting the 2023 Agile Culture research project. This project is being delivered using unique technology within a survey that collects the truth about agile culture using the Neurotech® platform the people analytics technology. The survey objectives…
Being Agile
To really understand Agile we needs to understand where it came from. Agile Problem Statements – what were the issues that agile was created to solve? Alternative to document driven, heavyweight development processes Throwing work over the fence Work around…
Introduction to Agile from forthcoming Essential Agile book
This is fundamental to understand what Agile is, the benefits it delivers and how to implement it. Agile is fundamentally about moving to a trust relationship with staff and evolving past the industrial revolution practice of overseers for ignorant and unskilled workers.
Story Points are an Estimation of Complexity not Time
For those that know this about Story Points, none of this post will be surprise, but given the current crop of consultants talking about delivering capabilities and features using story points I think it’s time to restate this simple fact;…
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…
#IoT #Blockchain #Business #ROI #Humans @UserExperienceU #STinsights 15million+
#IoT #Blockchain #Business #ROI #Humans @UserExperienceU #STinsights
What #5G means to Karl Smith #HuaweiMobile
@UserExperienceU #HuaweiMWC17
#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…
#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,…
#Pervasive #UX and the next Human Revolution
Pervasive UX #pUX an evolutionary UX that enables (#ubiquitous) #Open #IoT #Ecosystems through Human Centered Design #HCD Talk Proposal: This talk is about the need for UX to dig deeper into its core capabilities to facilitate Smart Living and true Ubiquity…
#Smart #Business is #Smarter not locating to a #SmartCity
Lets not building Smart Cities, lets Live Smart instead Just as humanity is starting to deal with business processes that should never have been digitized we might also consider the huge waste in making Smart Cities when we no longer…
Situational Awareness IoT Shopping
Situational Awareness IoT Shopping Consider, currently we see things we want to buy through advertising or by seeing it in films or when around other people or places. Why not; while having a coffee with a friend in their house…
Technology Key Opinion Leaders KOL Huawei MWC2017
What is a Key Opinion Leader? The concept of KOL’s has been around in the pharmaceutical industry for a while and Elihu Katz in answers the question, “Who is an opinion leader?” One or more of these factors make noteworthy…
#Divergent #digital #agenda post-smartphones #Huawei
I’m writing this from the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as a guest of Huawei. I don’t do advertising in my writing or public speaking I provide useful and insightful information in the hope that my readers can make use…
#AgileWorld #Venture #Capital Buyout Declined
The company that I am a CEO of in the United States of America, Agile World Inc. has just issued the following press release; To confirm Agile World Inc. has been contacted by a New York City, Venture Capital company regarding investment,…
#Digital #Transformation is #About #People
Karl Smith will be talking at Digital Transformation 2017 on 23rd Feb Our Dynamic Earth Edinburgh organised by Scot TECH http://www.scot-tech.com/ Digital is about People, not technology. Digital is a response to the desire of people to focus their lives towards…
#OpenNetworking #Ecosystem #Protocol #Patent
While everyone else has been focused on selling the dream of ubiquity Agile World Inc. has been working on a protocol to make it a reality. In essence the protocol is about; A method of defining an organic or inorganic items…
#Digital #Transformation a #Business #Guide
But we already have Digital, how can it be coming? For the most part what companies have is Technology being sold as Digital Solutions or Digital Strategy, however Being Digital and participating in the Digital Economy is about fundamental change in how your…
#Blockchain end to financial services and banking #STP and #BPO Accounting?
In the same way that digital downloads has crippled the mass market of vinyl and CD’s does Blockchain means the end of financial services and banking straight through processing and the accountancy service model? By reviewing the cost reduction culture…
20 questions about the life and experience of #KarlSmith
I was recently asked to answer 20 questions by Beament Leslie Thomas (BLT) a leading niche, specialist recruitment company some of it explains why I like to do the impossible and how. This edition of 20 Questions is with Karl…
#IoT People in #London
#IoT People in #London So I’m putting this list together of some really smart people I’ve come across recently as we all work towards making the open IoT a reality. Michael Bayler, Founder and Director, understands the true impact of IoT…
#Global #Digital #Consultancy Start-up Pt2 #Adjusted #Governance #Magic #Bullet
I offer several strategic consultancy services one of them is Organizational Design this can involve launching a new service or creating new divisions or even whole Global companies. Governance is a Business Enabler Having written several enterprise governance documents using ISO/IEC…