What is Human Experience in Design?
Excerpt from Designing for Human Experience, republished by permission of Polymath Knowledge 25th Nov 2020 designing for TDP – the design process IA – information architecture CA – content author PD – product design ID – instructional design U –…
I don’t want to live in America but I do want to work there
One of the things that should have become apparent by now is that no one needs to be physically based in a location to work there. In 2020 the USA is one of the most dangerous places on the planet…
Designing for Human Experience Paperback on Amazon
This book about what I have done for a living since 1989 in Designing for Human Experience. Here have put together an anthology of my life and my passion for designing for human experience. I describe what I do as…
Top 100 Thought Leaders and Influencers to follow in 2020
Karl Smith named in the The Awards Magazine, Top 100 Global Thought Leaders and Influencers to Follow in 2020. Well let’s step back a bit from that, I mean it’s wonderful sounding but what does it actually mean and does it…
Agile an Unexpected Journey Compendium Book
Agile an Unexpected Journey. A Compendium of Agile Biographies How exactly did people get involved in Agile, what did then learn that galvanised them and propelled them into a career in it? This compendium of Agile Biographies by practitioners expresses…
Servant Leadership Experiments in Ways of Working Book
Servant Leadership is not just another fad in business its a critical component of successful adoption of Business Agility. The book covers experiences and anecdotes describing 15 years of implementing Servant Leadership in high pressure, results oriented work environments. It…
Designing for Human Experience Book
Designing for Human Experience Forewords by Robert Powell and Patrick Neeman. Designing for Humans remains for me the most fantastic amalgamation of the complex to create the simple, useable and nascent components and artefacts that support human experiences. I’ll apologise…
Imagine If The Way We Now Live Became Redundant
Ari Abraham from Philosophie Group Inc. Santa Monica, California talks to Karl Smith, a consultant, and innovator who has said in the past “My desire was not to build things that humans already do but to find out how technology could evolve our human…
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…
Global Thought Leader in Predictive Analytics Karl Smith
Predictive Analytics startup in 2019 Decision Point AI and SaaS company Advance Analytics AI may be in the past but its a knowledge base that few people have. I don’t just write about technology, digital disruption and customer engaged business…
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.
LinkedIn bullies and the loss of the LinkedIn professional network
It is without doubt that Social Media empowers people to feel they can act with impunity. However this has never really been true, there is no impunity on Social Media as accounts can be traced quite easily.
Amateur Business Agility or Ways of Working will cause Business Carnage
No one would let someone have a go at Brain Surgery yet Company Boards will let both large Blue Chip consultancies (supposedly to manage risk) and Internal Staff (to save money) have a go at Business Agility (Agile Transformation or Ways of Working or Operational Transformation).
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.
Business Bullies and the Modern Workplace
Bullying has victims and is a crime against humanity. This article focuses on victims identifying the experiences that indicate they are the subject of bullying.
Eye tracking from Military to Healthcare
Like most technology innovations eye tracking started life as military technology with the best known supplier being Applied Science Laboratories or simply ASL. It was founded in 1962 by Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientists who developed their first video-based eye…
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.
UbiNET Smart Living
UbiNET platform is a unified framework that considers all aspects of future living and is intended to deliver solutions that move humanity on from dealing with mundane transactional activities into Smart Living
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…
Agile World Market Entry and Capability Building Consulting
Agile World is involved in Strategic, Tactical and Operational market entry and capability building.
L’expérience du décès imminent le 18 août sur l’autoroute A62 au nord de Toulouse coûte 417,03 Euros chez Hertz
Je me rendais à l’aéroport de Toulouse le 18 août et j’ai réussi à éviter de passer sur l’A62 près du terminal 12. Le véhicule était un Hertz Rental (aéroport de Toulouse), transport de passagers Silver avec l’immatriculation EX-130 -JH….
True Leaders grow up Emotionally
As leaders we often review our actions against our intent, sometimes we are assured we did the right thing, other times we accept we did not and more often than most people want to admit we bluff our way through and hope no one noticed (they always do).
Karl Smith Founder of Decision Point AI
Karl A L Smith founder of Decision Point AI Decision Point is the only #dddm_ai company, for #augmentedintelligence in #fintech #medtech #suptech #regtech #govtech #sectech #edtech #insurtech Karl Smith, Decision Point Always leading from the front Karl continues to drive…
Karl Smith creates Decision Point AI
After some initial market research and evaluation of the Veriluma product and service offering Agile World has created Decision Point AI to simplify the adoption of Veriluma’s unique Augmented Intelligence capability. The critical path in communicating to decision makers with…