Agile20Reflect Festival Free Global Agile Festival over 550+ Events Starts 31st Jan
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January 27, 2021
Celebrating 20 years of Agile from small beginnings in Scotland a community led Agile Festival is now the largest free Agile festival ever
"We designed the Agile20Reflect Festival to be an open Virtual Market space for the community to come together. Like Ancient Athens come to the Agora and share your agile ideas!! And the Agile community answered the invite. In the festival you will hear many voices the inclusion has been amazing! And every event is treated equally, does not matter if you are a Agile Founding Father in the USA or a Recent Enthusiast from Nigeria all welcome all equally marketed, held up and celebrated!!" Opportunity for all! Scott Seivwright CEO and Trustee
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Scaled Organizational Agility is the Future of Work in Agile20Reflect Festival
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January 12, 2021
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 old ways of working in portfolio management, finance, ITIL and
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A Scottish Revolution to Re Energise Agile
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January 10, 2021
Regardless of the state of the world or futility that people may feel at this time something tremendous has been started in Scotland that is touching and building up people all across the world. The reflection at this point on what has been a groundbreaking movement is essential to understand itR
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A short guide to Agile Transformation
Medium GlobalFutureofWork
January 06, 2021
This guide to Agile Transformation is more of a Strategy and Planning book than Servant Leadership, Experiments in Ways of Working (due out later in 2021) which focuses on the Tactical and Practical Implementation of Agile Transformation.
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Storming Norming Performing Agile20Reflect Festival a View from the CTO
Medium GlobalFutureofWork
December 23, 2020
Like many great performances there are many like me who prefer to support from the wings. I have for many years avoided the celebrities and various cults of Agile, not because I don’t respect them, but because I do Agile rather than follow others who do Agile. I also don’t want to get involved in the various fights, not because I can’t fight, but because I see no value in those fights. No one owns Agile, regardless if they think they do, it’s been running free and wild too long to be caged.
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Storming Norming Performing Agile20Reflect Festival a view from the wings
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December 19, 2020
Like many great performances there are many like me who prefer to support from the wings. I have for many years avoided the celebrities and various cults of Agile, not because I don’t respect them, but because I do Agile rather than follow others who do Agile. I also don’t want to get in
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Combining Agile and UX in Organisational Design for Business Agility and Agile Transformation
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December 10, 2020
While there is now a huge body of work in regard to Agile Transformation much of it has been focused on ‘continuous flow’ and ‘transparent work’ leaving the areas of ‘how to work’ and ‘other people’ in many cases without guidance so they often create anti-patterns that ultimately und
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Combining Agile and UX in Organisational Design for Business Agility and Agile Transformation
Polymath Knowledge
December 02, 2020
Some things to understand before getting into the main article. Agile is based on some very human concepts around how to work and what to value. Some of these concepts are exactly the same as UX and are driven by the same desire for simplicity and functionality.
Agile in its most basic sense is about people, how they work with other people and how to maintain a continuous flow of transparent work. In Agile many people will focus on ‘continuous flow’ and ‘transparent work’ and forget the ‘how to work’ and ‘other people’ negating them to agile ceremonies, frameworks and practices. This of course creates an imbalance in organisations adopting agile, as their focus is not on how it affects people, their sense of worth, emotions and their carefully crafted mental models around work and colleagues as much as changing what work is.
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What is Human Experience in Design?
Polymath Knowledge
November 25, 2020
This is a short glossary to cover the now myriad of terminology related to designing for humans. I expect there to be more as time goes on humans do seem to love reinventing the wheel and then renaming it.
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I don’t want to live in America but I do want to work there
Karl Smith
November 08, 2020
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 to live. When considering the current Covid19 pandemic and thinking of the USA all I can think of is a Zombie Apocalypse. But for work the USA has some of the most interesting and innovative companies in the world and that’s where I want to work.
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Designing for Human Experience Paperback on Amazon
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October 29, 2020
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 designing for human experience because you can’t design experience as it resides in
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Top 100 Global Thought Leaders and Influencers to follow in 2020 and why!
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October 27, 2020
Karl Smith named in the The Awards Magazine, Top 100 Global Thought Leaders and Influencers to Follow in 2020. It’s wonderful sounding but what does it actually mean and does it matter at all? https://twitter.com/UserExperienceU https://www.linkedin.com/in/karlsmith2/
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Top 100 Thought Leaders and Influencers to follow in 2020
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October 25, 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 matter at all? What are Thought Leaders and Influencers When I first
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Agile an Unexpected Journey Compendium Book
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October 13, 2020
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 their experiences and their vision for the fut
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Servant Leadership Experiments in Ways of Working Book
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October 12, 2020
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 includes small startup
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Designing for Human Experience Book
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October 09, 2020
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 in advance while I try
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UbiNET Use Cases Imagine If The Way We Now Live Became Redundant
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September 03, 2020
Ari Abraham from Philosophie Group Inc. Santa Monica, California talks to Karl Smith, a consultant, and innovator who has said in the past “My[...]
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Imagine If The Way We Now Live Became Redundant
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September 02, 2020
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 experience.” Ari and Karl dig into some o
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Globaler Vordenker in Predictive Analytics Karl Smith
LinkedIn
August 11, 2020
Predictive Analytics-Start im Jahr 2019 Decision Point AI und das SaaS-Unternehmen Advanced Analytics AI sind zwar in der Vergangenheit, aber es ist eine Wissensbasis, über die nur wenige Menschen verfügen. Ich schreibe nicht nur über Technologie, digitale Störungen und kundenorientiertes Geschäft, sondern erstelle die Strategie, die Markenwerte und das Zielbetriebsmodell, die HR-Rollen und Karrierewege, Lieferantenverträge, Dienstleistungen und Produkte des neuen Unternehmens, Geschäftsbereichs oder Angebots
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Global Thought Leader in Predictive Analytics Karl Smith
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July 19, 2020
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 I create the strategy, brand assets and deliver t
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Global Education Publishing Organisational Design and WCMS Solution | Karl Smith's Work
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July 01, 2020
Client Company: Hidden Employees: 6,000 Valuation: €5.000 billion Location: Hidden Technology: WCMS Sector: Publishing Sub Sector: Educational – B2B, B2C, C2C Services Product: Online eCommerce and Private Social Network Background The client had a number of issues with their existing web presence and had tried an failed to resolve them over the years with their technology department
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National Health Service Patient Records System | Karl Smith's Work
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June 30, 2020
Client Company: Hidden Employees: 12,000 Valuation: € 3.8 billion (yearly budget) Location: Hidden (not the United Kingdom) Technology: Hidden Sector: Government Sub Sector: Healthcare Product: Live Patient Records System Background The client wanted to build a healthcare patients records system to be used by clinicians and administrators to both support diagnostics and treatment resourcing for
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Fashion Retail move to Ecommerce | Karl Smith's Work
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June 25, 2020
Client Company: Hidden
Employees: 78,000
Valuation: €7.79 billion
Location: London, UK
Technology: iOS iPad, iPhone
Sector: Retail
Sub Sector: Fashion
Product: Ecommerce
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National Driving Rehabilitation and Training System | Karl Smith's Work
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June 25, 2020
Client Company: Hidden
Employees: 77,000
Valuation: –
Location: London, UK
Technology:
Sector: Government
Sub Sector: Home Office, Ministry of Justice, Policing
Product: Rehabilitation of Offenders
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KYC Private Banking iWatch Next Action Application | Karl Smith's Work
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June 23, 2020
Client Company: Hidden
Employees: 1,929
Valuation: €39.5 billion
Location: Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Technology: iOS iPad, iPhone, iWatch
Sector: Financial Services
Sub Sector: Banking
Product: Know Your Customer KYC Next Action
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Credit Card System for Governments and Global Corporations | Karl Smith's Work
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June 21, 2020
Client Company: Hidden
Employees: 69,651
Valuation: $495.426 billion
Location: Minneapolis, USA
Technology: TSYS2
Sector: Financial Services
Sub Sector: Corporate Banking
Product: Payments Credit Card Services
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KYC Private Banking | Karl Smith's Work
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June 21, 2020
Client Company: Hidden
Employees: –
Valuation: €223.1 billion
Location: London, UK
Technology: iOS Application
Sector: Financial Services
Sub Sector: Banking
Product: Know Your Customer KYC
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Treasury Application for Global FMCG Company | Karl Smith's Work
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June 18, 2020
Client Company: Hidden
Employees: 155,000
Valuation: €78.692 billion
Location: London, UK
Technology: Bespoke TMS (Murex, Calypso, Tm5)
Sector: FMCG
Sub Sector: Finance and Asset Management
Product: Treasury
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FMCG Customer Experience Management | Karl Smith's Work
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June 17, 2020
Client Company: Hidden
Employees: 130,000
Valuation: €6.436 billion
Location: San Francisco, USA
Technology: Artificial Intelligence and CX Automation
Sector: FMCG
Sub Sector: Customer Experience Management
Product: Online eCommerce
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Decision Science | Decision Point AI Group
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June 17, 2020
While the standard pathway for Decision Science is to focus on data as a tool to make decisions and solve business problems. Decision Point AI has further augmented the current thinking by adding collated data through an augmented intelligence platform and applying human interpretive algorithms that enable expert context to establish both true meaning and trajectory in a real time manner.
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Thugs and Criminals roam streets of USA as Cops and Looters
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June 03, 2020
As the George Floyd protests take place under the First Amendment rights of US Citizens across the country it is becoming clear that there are thugs and criminals active in the police, national guard, security services and citizens.
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Ways of Working Organizational Design Service launched Paradigm Interactions | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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May 21, 2020
Paradigm Interactions 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.
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#BusinessAgility is about #people not #technology #mindsets not #toolsets and #value not #productivity | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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May 04, 2020
Agile DevOps is about people not technology, mindsets not toolsets and value not productivity
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Ways of Working Organizational Design Service launched Paradigm Interactions
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April 23, 2020
Paradigm Interactions 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.
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Ways of Working Organizational Design Service
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April 20, 2020
WoW Organization Design Consultancy – Can be remote Paradigm Interactions offers the service of organizational design consultancy, to meticulously define[...]
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Amateur Business Agility or Ways of Working will cause Business Carnage | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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April 14, 2020
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).
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LinkedIn bullies and the loss of the LinkedIn professional network
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April 09, 2020
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.
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LinkedIn bullies and the loss of the LinkedIn professional network | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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April 09, 2020
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.
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UX Design Principles | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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April 01, 2020
Pre-accepted and trusted visual standards are vital to user acceptance and experience as they encourage adoption of technology systems. This is vital so that users don’t need to learn new or counter intuitive interaction behaviours.
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Amateur Business Agility or Ways of Working will cause Business Carnage
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February 28, 2020
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).
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Paradigm Interactions shares its knowledge and experience of Business Agility and Ways of Working Transformation
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February 28, 2020
No one would let someone have a go at Brain Surgery yet Company Boards will let both large Blue Chip[...]
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#Minimum #Viable #Experience #MVE because the viability in an #MVP is not #Customer #Centered | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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January 14, 2020
The minimum viable experience (MVE) is a product which has complete customer journeys, that can be built upon. It is task orientated and enables customers to start and complete a full process.
A minimum viable experience has just those core customer journeys that allow the product to be deployed, and no more.
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How Karl Smith thinks and solves problems is based upon a literature review from his MSc 2005 on eCommerce | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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December 29, 2019
There are three clear aspects that underwrite internet shopping under review. Firstly that many companies believe by converting a process using technology that it becomes more successful.
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Business Bullies and the Modern Workplace | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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November 29, 2019
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.
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Innovation is a Cultural Action | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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November 28, 2019
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.
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Organisational and cultural transformation in Business Agility | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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November 28, 2019
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. More especially culture is born from action not just intent and this is what organisations who want to change are discovering.
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Five most #common #failures of business #change and #transformation projects | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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November 25, 2019
Ever since transformation and change were linked to technology some of the worst parts of both have been combined on a national level and within major companies.
Giving users less functionality than they currently have and telling them it’s a great leap forward.
It is astonishing but this is the most common failing in projects, for some reason senior stakeholders appear to be convinced that technology is good and experience is bad. And if they concentrate on a new end state, all that is bad will go away. In a sad way all that is experience and knowledge are the things that go away often taking competitive advantage with them.
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#Edinburgh based AI start up Decision Point AI announces integration with #SHANARRI social framework | Decision Point AI Group
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November 19, 2019
Decision Point AI are working with the Paisley YMCA, Scotland on a secure application that standardises both the SHANARRI social framework processes and its data. SHANARRI is an acronym for the eight wellbeing indicators in the Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) in Health and Wellbeing. It stands for Safe, Healthy, Achieving, Nurtured, Active, Respected, Responsible, Included. The indicators are used to structure the information recorded about a child or young person and to monitor their progress across social services.
Since starting Decision Point AI, we have had to work hard to demystify AI and focus on real world problems with potential clients. We have done this by using professional service consulting and human centred design methodologies along with our AI’s subjective logic, conditional logic and bayesian probability or networks we provide actionable, relatable and accountable decision points to our clients and their end users.
Karl Smith, Managing Director, Decision Point AI
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#KYC using AI from Decision Point AI | Decision Point AI Group
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November 19, 2019
Know your customer, alternatively known as know your client or simply KYC, is the process of a business verifying the identity of its clients and assessing their suitability, along with the potential risks of illegal intentions towards the business relationship. It is also focused on needs and objectives of clients, in a way that is unrelated to financial products or services.
As we continue to develop applications on top of our prediction AI software we expect to deliver a suite of standard FinTech applications for financial institutions. Karl Smith Managing Director, Decision Point AI.
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MiFID II using AI from Decision Point AI | Decision Point AI Group
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November 19, 2019
MiFID II, alternatively known as Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, is regulation set in place to strengthen investor protection. At Decision Point AI we are focused on enabling transparency around the relationships of assets, asset owners and intermediaries for clients and corporate customers.
The Markets in Financial Instruments Directive is the EU legislation that regulates firms who provide services to clients linked to “financial instruments” (shares, bonds, units in collective investment schemes and derivatives), and the venues where those instruments are traded. The Financial Conduct Authority
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AI Operational Passports for point-in-time records in compliance and regulation | Decision Point AI Group
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November 19, 2019
AI Operational Passports for point-in-time records in compliance and regulation
Decision Point AI has unlimited potential in all verticals and sectors and can deliver information in a useful format on which to base decisions. In response to growing concerns around the operation and accountabilities of AI algorithms and the potential for legislation or certification of AI’s Decision Point AI has decided to adopt an Operational Passport approach. The adoption of this approach follows the recently launched United Kingdom report on Trust, Transparency and Technology: Building Data Policies for the Public Good, by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Data and Analytics
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Innovation is a Cultural Action
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November 18, 2019
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.
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Eye tracking from Military to Healthcare | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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November 13, 2019
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 tracker in 1974.
After it initial focus on Military critical path activities it was then moved into civilian applications first with complex dashboards like those in use in Nuclear Power Stations and then into other usages.
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True Leaders grow up Emotionally | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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November 06, 2019
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).
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UbiNET Smart Living | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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October 21, 2019
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
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AI Operational Passports | Decision Point AI Group
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October 16, 2019
AI Operational Passports
Operational Passports with for point-in-time records in compliance and regulation
Decision Point AI has unlimited potential in all verticals and sectors and can deliver information in a useful format on which to base decisions. In response to growing concerns around the operation and accountabilities of AI and the potential for legislation or certification of AI’s, Decision Point AI has decided to adopt an Operational Passport approach. The Operational Passport is linked to the companies technology platforms capacity to create regulatory point in time reporting as part of each step in its end to end solutions. The adoption of this approach follows the recently launched United Kingdom report on Trust, Transparency and Technology: Building Data Policies for the Public Good, by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Data and Analytics
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Government as a Service (GaaS), Spying as a Service (SaaS) the United Kingdom exports some unexpected things | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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October 13, 2019
While it has long been known that the Special Air Service (SAS) conducts desert training 'exercises' in the Middle East in support of a number of small but strategically important Kingdoms, what's only recently becoming known the United Kingdoms other special exports.
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What #5G means to Karl Smith #HuaweiMobile | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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October 13, 2019
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#Huawei works to end the #digitaldivide by #recycling #infrastructure for #rural #ultrabroadband | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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October 13, 2019
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 is not preferable to using web technologies. So it is from the #UBBF2017 event supported by The United Nations (Digital Human Rights) and Huawei that following information comes from.
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Why George Hotz, #Geohot thinking is superior to Elon Musk in Artificial Intelligence AI | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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May 04, 2019
The title of the post is perhaps a little misleading in one way, I really don't think Elon Musk coded his AI, but I do think both he and George Hotz set the features, relationship and prioritisation around the work for their AI's and in Georges case also built it.
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#Alive and Present #Everywhere open #IoT3 Ecosystems #SmartLiving | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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March 17, 2019
What is the IoT, how is it intended to work and how does that relate to how it currently works. What are the real business opportunities and how will they be measured as a success? How can your business gain an advantage or benefit? Finally, are there any risks associated with the IoT, either foreseen or not and how might they be mitigated?
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Speeding up the Wrong Work DevOps Maturity in Business Decisions #BusinessAgility | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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January 22, 2019
It’s a fact that common sense it not that common and is often not a factor except in reflection after the fact. If we could simply learn from each other rather than rely upon a uniqueness agenda, businesses would stop creating the same failure points with new language and excuses around it.
Digital is a form of communication with customers, where technology is the mechanism
Accepting that digital and its underwriting technologies is the common parlance of success in our world would greatly decrease business fostered failure. Additionally, if business would participate in digital and technology, joining the team, then the choice of work would get considerably better. After all its impossible to read people’s minds to understand their intent let alone their exact need, but if people are all in it together they work at being understood and understanding in a way that is foreign to hierarchical businesses.
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#Dependant on #dumb #data and is making #bad #choices? #Douglas #Adams | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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January 22, 2019
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 to one simple thing;
“Data only describes part of the what is happening and almost nothing of the why, let alone what should be done to change the situation”
Clients have been sold that data gives them the answers and that big data will close the loop for them to understand the upstream and downstream thinking of their customers, WRONG.
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#Pervasive #UX and the next Human Revolution | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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November 04, 2018
While for many recent joiners to the UX profession Open IoT Ecosystems are a daunting proposition, to those with both understanding and experience of the evolution of UX they are an opportunity to return to core values and the eminence of our profession.
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#Smart #Business is #Smarter not locating to a #SmartCity | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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June 30, 2018
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 need cities.
Watching humanity evolve in retrospect it is easy to spot the errors and poor judgement, but humanity is on the cusp of a revolution so profound it calls into question the structure of our societies.
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#Context matters in #Usability | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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May 23, 2018
While any kind of user testing is better than none, usability testing out of context is like testing a car on water, it gives some basic information and not a lot more. If performance and use are important at all, then testing should take place in an environment standard to the expected users.
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12 #UX things you need to know | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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May 23, 2018
Getting into user experience, what you need to know?
What will a person need to be able to do to get into user experience;
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#Usable #security in investment banking and #wealth #management | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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May 23, 2018
Security and trust are vital principals in building interpersonal and business relationships. These same principles should be employed to both directly and indirectly communicate with users. The following post shows how the construction of password reset challenge questions tell a narrative story of
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Web Governance ISO/IEC 38500 | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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May 23, 2018
The following is the first page of a Web Governance document I created and have used with a number of institutions, it’s here to layout one way to tackle this really complex type of project.
1.2.1 Summary
This Web Governance document is to define the structure of people, positions, authorities, roles, responsibilities, relationships, and rules involved in managing the xxxxxxxxx website’s. This governance structure defines who can make what decisions, who is accountable for which efforts, and how each of the players must work together to operate a website and web management process effectively.
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#UX #Requirements gathering #structure #determines #success | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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May 23, 2018
It is an understood factor in travel that if the journey starts even half a degree wrong then the final destination will be considerably different from where the person intended to be, this is for many why there is a make do culture when working with technology requirements. Unfortunately bad requir
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Usability and Accessibility Legislation | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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May 23, 2018
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#UX #requirements #gathering methods #determine #value | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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May 23, 2018
There are lots ways to elicit UCD requirements so I don't intend on listing them all here, what I will note are some of the effective ways that I utilise. They can be described as structured, unstructured or a mixture of the two, but importantly the methods produce differing depth of requirements de
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Website #help and #support systems should #avoid #FAQ | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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May 23, 2018
Websites conversely support users from every experience of life, who while focused on a product or service are not professionals in that product or service.
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Fail Fast, Fail Small to Avoid Failing Big and Failing Slowly
Digit.Fyi
May 23, 2018
Karl Smith explores how to avoid slow and costly failure within enterprise.
You would think that by this late stage in the life of Agile and Agility, the concepts would be well embedded in organisational transformation, people assessments and processes. From my experience I’ve never seen Agile actually fail; I’ve seen people pervert its meaning and make up their own versions – then blame a framework for personal incompetence. But I’ve not seen Agile fail, and I’ve not seen DevOps fail either.
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#UX #cognitive #interactions patterns for #IoT by #Gestalt | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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May 23, 2018
The psychology of visual location, shape and colour are critical to enable user to understand and interpret their location and expectations of use in any given area. Karl Smith's research from 2002 defined additional aspects as 'biographical templates' that establish key perceptions and personal d
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Ask #customers not #stakeholders | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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May 23, 2018
Clients will often reduce or not pay for UX research, but this is like leaving out a building foundation because no one sees it. A visitors experience is not only defined by the online environment but they bring past experiences, desires and doubts about their current experience.
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#Retail #banks need their #customers | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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May 23, 2018
The 90/00's marketing gimmicks of creating a relationship with your bank are long gone in people's minds. The problem for the banks is they now for the first time mean it, but have lost a lot of credibility and the confidence of the public.
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Supporting #Users with #HCD principals | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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#Getting #User #Experience #UX to work with #Clients | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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May 23, 2018
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#User #Experience #UX #Process | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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May 23, 2018
The first step in user experience needs to be the recognition that every problem is different and will require a separate solution, in effect there is no quick fix or standard method.
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#Getting into #User #Experience Part 2 | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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May 23, 2018
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#Subsistence #UX #Resolution UX #Gain UX or #Advantage UX what results do you get? | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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May 23, 2018
There is a major problem with user experience as it evolves, many practitioners are not underwriting their output with recent ux research but are relying on past patterns. In turn this has caused the creation of streams or levels of UX capability and delivery; Subsistence, Resolution, Gain or Advant
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#Banking #Change #Management through #Human #Centred #Design #HCD | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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May 23, 2018
Massive change management is taking place across all sectors of British banking over the last three years driven by buy outs and mergers, some by efficiencies and a little more recently through questioning the nature and controls around risk management.
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How to Hire a Head of User Experience | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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May 23, 2018
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Getting #UX done the UX #engagement #process | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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May 23, 2018
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#Information Architecture (IA) the #classification of #information | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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May 23, 2018
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#Information #Architecture (IA) is not another name for #User #Experience (UX) | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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May 23, 2018
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Speeding up the Wrong Work: DevOps Maturity in Business Decisions
Digit.Fyi
May 23, 2018
Karl Smith, the founder and CEO of Paradigm Interactions, considers the value of DevOps in a company without a robust and mature decision making process.
It’s a fact that common sense is not that common and is often not a factor, except in reflection after the fact.
If we could simply learn from each other rather than rely upon a uniqueness agenda, businesses would stop creating the same failure points with new language and excuses around it.
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#Information #Architecture (IA) the #classification of #information Part 2 | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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May 23, 2018
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#UI is not #UX | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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May 23, 2018
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6 ways to keep your #identity #secure #online | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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May 23, 2018
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#Holistic #UX #Customers don’t think or interact along #channels | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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May 23, 2018
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5 #UX #lies, damn lies and absolute #myths | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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May 23, 2018
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#Blended #program #management #Prince and #Agile methods Part 1 | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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May 23, 2018
I have experience in Prince and Agile methodologies and will expand on the blending of these two methods through the use of user stories (a user experience method) and the positive relationship between waterfall and iteration components in the following parts of this post.
Simply put (before getting into the detail) Prince and Agile = Delivery and in Banking and Finance they can give startling results.
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#Agile #User #stories is a #UX #method | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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May 23, 2018
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Do #eCommerce #analytics prove #customer #affiliation? | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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May 23, 2018
Analytics for e-Commerce can be split between two contrasting and not necessarily companion aspects.
1. analytics of success in terms of market development, profile or response through hit or link ratings
2. analytics of sales or revenue
Dependant upon the purpose of a company’s e-commerce deployment one or other but rarely both of these analytics will seek to prove the status of the investment and allow informed strategic decision making.
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#Strategic and #lean #thinking in private investment and asset portfolio management, part 1 | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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May 23, 2018
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#Strategic and #lean #thinking in private investment and asset portfolio participants part 2 | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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May 23, 2018
This article is intended to review the current process problems that many investment and wealth management companies are attempting to solve. For many years these businesses have been wreathed in secrecy regarding how they do, what they do, often this has not been by choice but merely a by product of business processes that have not fundamentally changed in fifty years and in environments where technology is not considered as an enabler.
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The #IoT an #interactive landscape without #visual #interfaces | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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May 23, 2018
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An interview with a #User #Experience #Guru | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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May 23, 2018
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What is a #User in #Professional #UX? | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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May 23, 2018
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Being asked the #UX #Point of view #POV exposes #ignorance | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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May 23, 2018
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#UI and #UX are not #interchangeable | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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May 23, 2018
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Interview with a #User #Experience #Guru part 2 | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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May 23, 2018
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#UX and #Development cannot exist in the same #Agile workstream | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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May 23, 2018
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Can real #UX be done in a #global #consultancy? | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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May 23, 2018
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#UX #Designer waste of money for #Clients | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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May 23, 2018
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#Recruiters requesting #UX #portfolio #breach #IPR | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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May 23, 2018
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#UX #ROI, every dollar spent on UX brings in between $2 and $100 dollars in return | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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May 23, 2018
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#Customer #desire leads #disruptive #innovation | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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May 23, 2018
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20 Cool Things Google Search Can Do | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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May 23, 2018
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#Cognition #Clash in the #IoT #SXSW | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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May 23, 2018
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How to #Design an #Online #National #Census | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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May 23, 2018
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 an offline experience and an online one. Also peoples expectations of a digital experience is higher than a real world experience and that goes back to the notion that “technology is here to help us” which we all know is not really true. Additionally there is a whole raft of legislation pertaining to human rights, ease of access and use for people with disabilities which must be considered before starting (which have always been impossible to add in a retrospective fashion, enterprise systems architects take note).
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5 User Experience (Customer Journey) lies, damn lies and absolute myths | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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May 23, 2018
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#Innova8 combining #designthinking #servicedesign and #userexperience #customer validated services and products | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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May 23, 2018
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#Global #Digital #Consultancy Start-up Pt1 #Market #Differentiators | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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May 23, 2018
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#Global #Digital #Consultancy Start-up Pt2 #Adjusted #Governance #Magic #Bullet | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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May 23, 2018
Governance is a Business Enabler
Having written several enterprise governance documents using ISO/IEC 385000 as a template I am well aware that governance is one of those areas that is much misunderstood.
Well constructed and managed governance is open and obvious, it is designed to enable business and has an active and transparent policy creation and updating process. However, there is a huge amount of governance set up to chain the business to policies that are truly complex, meaningless in the current context and have become a power base in their own right.
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UbiNET Inc IoT 3 Smart Living Platform
UbiNET Inc.
May 23, 2018
UbiNET Inc is an IoT 3 Smartliving Platform company that links organic and inorganic items on a planet wide unique identity system, it uses proprietary technologies including a twin AI blockchain and is operated in accordance with the secondary handshake Open Network Ecosystem Protocol ONEP.
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#IoT #Blockchain #Business #ROI #Humans @UserExperienceU #STinsights 15million+ | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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May 23, 2018
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#User #Interface (UI) is not the User #Experience (UX) | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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May 23, 2018
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#Lies damn lies and #user #experience | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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May 23, 2018
User experience has in recent years become the greatest area of fraud and theft in business. The most common request for people involved in user experience is to produce wireframes (low fidelity pictures) a task that a child could do.
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Fail Fast, Fail Small to avoid Failing Big and Failing Slow #BusinessAgility | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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February 07, 2018
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 pervert its meaning and make up their own versions then blame a framework for personal incompetence. Likewise I’ve not seen DevOps fail either.
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Core character traits of a True Leader | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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January 29, 2018
I was recently asked to answer 20 questions by Beament Leslie Thomas (BLT) a leading niche, specialist recruitment company http://bit.ly/2grPYUw some of it explains why I like to do the impossible and how.
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#UbiNET Inc. expands into Florida to deliver #UbiNETPlatform | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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January 01, 2018
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#Definition of #UX | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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October 28, 2017
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#Open #IoT with #Blockchain #AI and #BigData | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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October 28, 2017
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#Project #Charlemagne #UIoT, the #unification of the #IoT | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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October 28, 2017
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#IoT #Ecosystems require #Ontologies of your #Products and #Services | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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October 28, 2017
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#IoT #Products for the IoT #Economy, its all about #Productization | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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October 28, 2017
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#Situational #Awareness #Shopping | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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October 28, 2017
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 you see a nice bowl and you say ‘buy bowl’. Your personal IoT ecosystem checks the area and finds three bowls, it asks ‘white bowl’ you say ‘Yes’ the bowl is ordered based upon your personal preference which could be Speed, Price, Colour or anything else, for this scenario it’s Speed it locates the nearest supplier and orders it for immediate delivery.
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#Digital #Transformation a #Business #Guide | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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October 28, 2017
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 company works, not by adding a channel.
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#Digital #Transformation is #About #People | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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October 28, 2017
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#SmartTechnologies to #SmartLiving | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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October 28, 2017
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#DigitalBusiness and #AI should use Hegelian Logic to find very different and valuable customer insights | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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October 28, 2017
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Scotland The Brave? I Hope So!
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May 22, 2017
There is an identity problem in Scotland, it’s trying so hard not to offend its throwing away its destiny to lead.
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IOT: From Smart Technologies To Ecosystem And Onwards To Smart Living
Digit,Fyi
May 17, 2017
Something few people have grasped yet is that to get from Smart Technologies to IoT and onwards to Smart Living (Ubiquity) requires progression. Not just in terms of sensors, networks and device thinking, but also in terms of ecosystems and task thinking (to discern if they are even relevant, not just the form). As with every other revolution, not only do time and people change the meaning of the revolution, they also change the trajectory.
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HiveMind Social Media Key Opinion Leader
HiveMind Network
January 06, 2017
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 opinion leaders:
expression of values
professional competence
nature of their social network
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#Situational #awareness drives open #IoT #Ecosystems not #visual #interfaces | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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November 26, 2016
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 points in the IoT.
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#SmartLiving or as we might live with #artificial #intelligence and an open #IoT in a #new #reality | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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April 08, 2016
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 Live” with the technology and how it will adapt our lives, our cultures and move humanity onwards to greater things.
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When #Agile becomes #Fragile nobody #Wins | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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May 09, 2009
I have been an Agile practitioner a very long time, in fact as an Instructional Designer I was very excited when Agile was created based upon Computer Human Interaction methods and thinking. As one complete fully applied process Agile is astoundingly effective at bringing together all the best capabilities within a project team and totally removing the hierarchical and often power crazed notion of single point leadership.
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#User #Interface (UI) is not the User #Experience (UX)
Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
February 06, 2005
There seems to be a huge level of confusion around user experience (UX) but one of the key things is that user interface UI is not the user experience UX
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How Karl Smith thinks and solves problems is based upon a literature review from his MSc 2005 on eCommerce
Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
January 25, 2005
There is a notional level where technology creates an absolute route to a desired conclusion. This determination surmises a benign, logical process or system which creates processes and control mechanisms free from random, illogical and uncontrolled influences (McLoughlin, 1999). However while an idealised perfect use of technology may create such an operation its use by people automatically creates random, illogical and uncontrolled influences.
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#Definition of #User #Experience #UX | Karl Smith UX CX Agility AI IoT Leadership Blog
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April 21, 2001
User experience (UX) is about how a person feels, appropriates, attributes and generally thinks about using a product, system or service. 'Listen or well go elsewhere', because we can and will seek our own needs before yours.
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