Category: Change Management

For years, organisations and governments have treated data as a strategic asset. More information creates greater insight. Greater insight improves… read more What Happens When Data Stops Being Strategic Power?

For much of the digital economy, the customer relationship has expanded far beyond the original transaction. Someone buys something. But… read more What If My Customer’s Behaviour Wasn’t Part of My Business Model

Organisations need accountability. Someone needs to make decisions. Someone needs the authority to act. Someone needs to own the outcome… read more Does Accountability Require Everyone to See Everything?

Risk management has traditionally depended on information. Collect more. Monitor more. Retain more. Analyse more. Identify patterns. Spot anomalies. Create… read more Do We Really Need to See Everything to Manage Risk?

For decades, digital business has been moving in one direction. Know more about the customer. Collect more data. Build richer… read more What If Knowing Less About Me Was Better for Business?

Every person knows this feeling. You book a holiday. You open a bank account. You use a mobile app. You… read more Why Am I Expected to Trust Everyone?

Karl A L Smith Delivering Clarity, Structure and Results in Complex Transformation Karl A L Smith is available for contract… read more Karl A L Smith available for contract work worldwide

As I continue to see former colleagues in Management Consultancies make the same error over and over I thought I… read more Management Consultancy and LLM’s

All me use of AI We are getting a constant flow of request to integrate various AI technologies into All… read more All me says no to AI

Some people may be astonished to know that daily profit and loss (P&L) exists let alone the capability to delivery… read more Daily P&L for Finance Risk and London Markets

New Ways of Working Programmes are now quite common in major organisations, this talk and conversation is intended to offer… read more Scaled Organizational Agility is the Future of Work in Agile20Reflect Festival

Humanity continues to make the same innovation errors in every generation, instead of finding out “how technology could evolve our… read more The Autonomous Hot Tub and other moving Rooms

Agile World offers the service of organizational design consultancy, to meticulously define and organize the structure of companies, create job titles, and allocate resources (i.e. personnel) to improve efficiency and increase productivity including ROI.

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.

This is the Business Plan I wrote for a Blue Chip Consultancy to adopt Business Agility to deliver New Ways… read more Ways of Working Business Agility and Rapid Innovation service offerings proposal for Partner Role

You would think by this late stage in the life of Agile and Agility that the concepts would be well… read more Fail Fast, Fail Small to avoid Failing Big and Failing Slow #BusinessAgility

I attend a great deal of meetings all over the world and yes it does cost a fortune but feeding… read more #Huawei works to end the #digitaldivide by #recycling #infrastructure for #rural #ultrabroadband

Situational Awareness IoT Shopping Consider, currently we see things we want to buy through advertising or by seeing it in… read more Situational Awareness IoT Shopping

Agile DevOps is about people not technology, mindsets not toolsets and value not productivity

The company that I am a CEO of in the United States of America, Agile World Inc. has just issued… read more #AgileWorld #Venture #Capital Buyout Declined

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/… read more #Digital #Transformation is #About #People

But we already have Digital, how can it be coming? For the most part what companies have is Technology being… read more #Digital #Transformation a #Business #Guide

In the same way that digital downloads has crippled the mass market of vinyl and CD’s does Blockchain means the… read more #Blockchain end to financial services and banking #STP and #BPO Accounting?

I offer several strategic consultancy services one of them is Organizational Design this can involve launching a new service or… read more #Global #Digital #Consultancy Start-up Pt2 #Adjusted #Governance #Magic #Bullet