Karl Smith

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    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…

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    #SmartLiving or as we might live with #artificial #intelligence and an open #IoT in a #new #reality

    I tend to think of myself as a futurist, I immediately see the possibilities of technologies as part of a much larger ecosystem than the one it is intended for. I look for ways to test and assess “How we might…

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    Artificial Intelligence Banking Business Management Change Management Cognition Clash Cognitive Groups Contextural Usability Customer experience Digital Strategy Disruptive innovation Human Centred Design (HCD) Information Architecture IA IoT IoT Design Research Transformation Projects User Experience (UX)

    #Dependant on #dumb #data and is making #bad #choices? #Douglas #Adams

    Data, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence Clients don’t understand their customers, they just think they do! It’s not for the lack of trying or spending millions on developing and building huge data systems, the problems are many but can be traced back…

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    Cognition Clash in the IoT, Ubiquity Open Standard Project post SXSW Design Principles
    Business Management Change Management Cognition Clash Cognitive Groups Contextural Usability Customer experience Digital Strategy Disruptive innovation Human Centred Design (HCD) IoT IoT Design Lean Mobile SXSW Technology Risk Transformation Projects Usability User Experience (UX)

    #Cognition #Clash in the #IoT #SXSW

    Thank you to everyone who attended our (Karl Smith and Thom Heslop) talk at SXSW, it’s the start of a long road into a really complex and contextual problem. But being silent in the crowd as the King walks by…

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    Banking Change Management Digital Strategy Disruptive innovation User Experience (UX)

    #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…

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    Agile Business Management Competitive Advantage Digital Strategy Research User Experience (UX) User experience benefits

    Can real #UX be done in a #global #consultancy?

    As with Agile, UX has suffered fools having a go and failing. Focusing on titles, roles, activities or outputs misses the essential process that has not been applied by qualified, able and intelligent people who are able to deliver. No…

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    Microsoft is the new Apple

    Win8 is a game changer, but why the new strategy? Any knowledgeable IT and digital stratagist who understands the technology will tell you that Win8 is a game changer, but what is more significant is the way Microsoft is acting,…

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