Karl A L Smith

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#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…

#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…

#Alive and Present #Everywhere open #IoT3 Ecosystems #SmartLiving

Introduction The IoT is a much marketed term as the future of all things; the IoT is interconnected landscape of life experiences and transactions What is the IoT, how is it intended to work and how does that relate to how…

Situational awareness drives open IoT Ecosystems not visual interfaces

The foundation for this thinking goes back to a notion of the ‘social life of things’ . If things themselves exist and have a number of trajectories and states then those things also potentially have accessible and useful human touch…

#IoT #Products for the IoT #Economy, its all about #Productization

It should be clear by now to observers of how businesses who are being successful are changing. For them IoT is not just another name for Technology or a Delivery Channel but it is a Pervasive Customer Engagement Productization. As…

#IoT #Ecosystems require #Ontologies of your #Products and #Services

Products and services associated with the IoT currently operate in closed ecosystems like Home Automation, in effect, they are simply networked products with linking software. Part machine to machine (M2M) and part human to machine or machine to human (H2M…

Open IoT with Blockchain AI and Big Data

Ubiquity (IoT) does not exist yet There will be many people who will say it does exist and has working technologies, hardware and software. The IoT is not a closed ecosystem related to one task or feature set like Home Management, but…

5 User Experience (Customer Journey) lies, damn lies and absolute myths

1. Anyone can do user experience, nope! I meet a lot of people claiming to do user experience, process and deliverables aside, they don’t have a usability background so they cannot do user experience. User experience is a solution capability based upon…

Space Invaders, they live amongst us!

Are you sitting next to a Space Invader? Not actually an alien except in social behaviour, a Space Invader is a person who is totally selfish, focused purely on their needs and their desires. They think nothing of using both…

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…

#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…