Karl A L Smith available for contract work worldwide
Karl A L Smith Delivering Clarity, Structure and Results in Complex Transformation Karl A L Smith is available for contract engagements worldwide, supporting organisations that know where they need to get to but are not yet clear on how to…
Management Consultancy and LLM’s
As I continue to see former colleagues in Management Consultancies make the same error over and over I thought I would give you the solution, because frankly its embarrassing. Problem Statement Management Consultancies staff are being told to utilise LLM’s…
All me says no to AI
All me use of AI We are getting a constant flow of request to integrate various AI technologies into All me however we have made a strategic decision to not use AI. While there are several technical issues related to…
Daily P&L for Finance Risk and London Markets
Some people may be astonished to know that daily profit and loss (P&L) exists let alone the capability to delivery it across multiple separate organisations and entities in an enterprise in a 15 minute increment. Some might ask why would…
Scaled Organizational Agility is the Future of Work in Agile20Reflect Festival
New Ways of Working Programmes are now quite common in major organisations, this talk and conversation is intended to offer a holistic approach to WoW. It is imperative to be holistic in establishing new ways of working as boundaries to…
The Autonomous Hot Tub and other moving Rooms
Humanity continues to make the same innovation errors in every generation, instead of finding out “how technology could evolve our human experience” they focus on how to upgrade or change our existing experience. This is most evident in autonomous vehicles…
Ways of Working Organizational Design Service launched Agile World Inc.
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.
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.
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…
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…
#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…
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…
People not technology mindsets not toolsets and value not productivity
Agile DevOps is about people not technology, mindsets not toolsets and value not productivity
#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…
#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…
#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…
#Global #Digital #Consultancy Start-up Pt1 #Market #Differentiators
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. Being a founder of anything is quite exciting, especially if you are…
How to #Design an #Online #National #Census
Most people don’t even know that an online census is designed they just think you take the paper form and put it online. Unfortunately it is simply not that easy, the interactive environments, activities and tools are fundamentally different between…
#SXSW #Submission #Cognition #Clash in The #Internet of #Things
Description The Internet of Things is the next great opportunity for commerce to engage with business enterprises. However there is no unified approach to the mental load between physical interaction, mental interaction and digital interaction. This cognitive landscape is inhabited…
UCD2015 Conference Speakers Humanity in Digital Landscapes
UCD2015 Conference 23rd & 24th October, Deans Mews, 11-13 Cavendish Square, London W1G 0AN. We are delighted to confirm… [Keynote] The Joys and Sorrows of the Digital World: Finding Pleasure and Purpose in Digital Landscapes Patrick Jordan, Consultant Business Psychologist [Keynote] Intelligence Everywhere: the…
#Customer #desire leads #disruptive #innovation
A great deal of effort is being spent on customer experience and user experience that misses the point, experience is about desire, not process or fulfilment. Desire drives behaviour Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) proposed the concept of psychological hedonism, which asserts that the…
#UX and #Development cannot exist in the same #Agile workstream
“UX and Development cannot exist in the same Agile workstream” might sound like an outlandish claim but if you fully understand, it’s obvious. Forcing things to work as with the picture above is not a good idea. Can UX be…