Karl A L Smith

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Disruptive innovation

Bayesian Network AI Medical Diagnostic Tricorder

In 2019 I proposed a design for a Medical Diagnostic Tricorder (Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry) device for Real-time in Theatre (at time of war) Triage and Treatment. The device could supplement medical diagnostics by Doctors or Surgeons or be used…

Innovation is a Cultural Action

Having a strategy in business is critical, but a business without a focus on innovation and an understanding of how to do it efficiently and effectively won’t survive. This articles talk about quick innovation being based on truth.

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,…

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…

#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…

#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…

#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…

#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…

#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…

#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…