Karl Smith

Summary

Karl Smith is a highly creative and motivated person with keen insight ability. He is a critical thinker and is able to rapidly discover the essence of problems then define, communicate, create buy-in and deliver solutions. He positively motivates those around him and is able to engender a great team dynamic by leading from the front. He has business experience spanning 27 years at comparable levels in fields including defence, industry, construction, fashion, finance, banking, FMCG, property, publishing, healthcare, travel, policing, crown office, local and central government.

Biography

Karl Smith has a wide experience in management consultancy and digital technology including business management, strategy, innovation, marketing, advertising, governance, change management, project management, definition, design and delivery. He has been honoured by the British Computer Society for his eminence in IT leadership over the last 15 years with a Fellowship.

He mainly focuses on customer experience engagement and management in both B2B and B2C sectors. He works with directors and stakeholders whose main focus is increasing efficiency, transaction frequency and accuracy through the provision of knowledge driven, context focused, user-centered and responsive, future proofed (IoT, Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence), progressive interactive organisational change, innovative business processes and technology systems.

He is involved in defining new business concepts, strategies, requirements, governance (ISO/IEC 38500) and solutions that support businesses and organisation’s involved in transforming themselves to be adaptive and future proof themselves for market disruption.

He is currently the Founder and Director of The Human-Centered Design Society which is directly involved in central government policy in The House of Commons and The House of Lords through a number of committees including Associate Parliamentary Group for Design and Innovation.

Companies

Veriluma – Business strategy for optimisation of value proposition, scaling capability through existing bespoke service route and establishing SaaS offerings on branded identities for focused market opportunities. Strategy and Marketing through Decision Point AI also created by Karl Smith.

Advanced Analytics AI

Advanced Financial Analytics AFA

Advanced Legal Analytics ALA

Advanced Consumer Analytics ACA

Advanced Industrial Analytics AIA

Advanced Health Analytics AHA

Advanced Entertainment Analytics AEA

Wipro Digital – Launch Wipro Digital, Design Thinking, Service Design, Creative Technology Services, User Experience Strategy, Creative Design Services, M&A Designit – 2014

Accenture – Launch of Enterprise User Experience, Digital Services Launch, M&A Fjord – 2012

Pearson Publishing – Digital Services Restructuring – 2011

Deutsche Bank – Self Service Paradigm Shift – 2011

RBS – Risk Management – 2010

The Oxford University Press – Mobile First Digital Strategy – 2009

Other clients include; Argos, M&S, New Look, Vertu, Diageo, Cooperative Stores, Oxfam, Edinburgh University, Bradford University, The Roundhouse Trust, Microsoft, Apple, US Bank, Chase, Experian, Unilever, Wood Mckenzie, RBS, Khol’s, JP Morgan, Lloyds Banking Group, Allied Irish Bank, Bank of China, Santander, Vodafone, Carphone Warehouse, ABN, Tesco Bank, GE Money, Deutsche Bank, Learn Direct, TFL, What Car, City Index, Etihad Holidays, ONS, NISRA, Discovery Network, Pfizer, Novartis, TJX, EE, ICI, BNFL, Rohm and Haas, Petrobras, Aramco, Shell, BP Group, BP Exploration.

Vision

In a recent interview with Dinis Guarda, Karl Smith said the following about his vision on different topics:

Digital Transformation and Businesses

“In the last 15 years businesses have gone through this process of digital transformation. Businesses adopt technologies but most fail to adapt their processes and ways of working to become digital as well, to realise the true potential. Digital transformation is about opening a dialog and communicating with customers, not talking at them. We got to think about what forces drive change: what drives digital transformation so businesses and industries are able to adapt to what people need. We see this in banking for example: open banking means that ownership of a customer account is shared by financial service providers. Ownership is changing then. Customers’ behaviour is constantly changing too and businesses need to be able to adapt to them.”

About UX/UI

“UI is what you see and UX refers to how a system works. They are related, with UI being part of UX. Big corporations like eBay, Alibaba, Amazon, etc really try to tailor their products, their systems, their UX to make sure that they keep selling. And they have adapted every part of the customer journey to make sure they complete the transaction. Everything matters in their system: the user experience in the platform, the way the information is presented, the supply chains, the products, transportation, etc.”

References

https://www.intelligenthq.com/karl-smith-polymath-influencer-authority-ux-ui-ai-iot-founder-human-centered-design-society/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/karlsmith2/?originalSubdomain=uk

https://twitter.com/UserExperienceU

https://www.facebook.com/karlsmithconsultingwork

Home

https://www.crunchbase.com/person/karl-smith

https://www.thinkers360.com/tl/profiles/view/3702

https://karlsmith.info/karl-smith-fellow-of-the-british-computer-society/

https://ucduk.org/about-ucd-uk/karl-smith-founder-and-director/

https://www.theawardsmagazine.com/top-100-global-thought-leaders-and-influencers-to-follow/

https://onalytica.com/blog/posts/whos-who-in-future-of-work/

Hernaldo Turrillo

Hernaldo Turrillo is a writer and author specialised in innovation, AI, DLT, SMEs, trading, investing and new trends in technology and business. He has been working for ztudium group since 2017. He is the editor of openbusinesscouncil.org, tradersdna.com, hedgethink.com, and writes regularly for intelligenthq.com, socialmediacouncil.eu. Hernaldo was born in Spain and finally settled in London, United Kingdom, after a few years of personal growth. Hernaldo finished his Journalism bachelor degree in the University of Seville, Spain, and began working as reporter in the newspaper, Europa Sur, writing about Politics and Society. He also worked as community manager and marketing advisor in Los Barrios, Spain. Innovation, technology, politics and economy are his main interests, with special focus on new trends and ethical projects. He enjoys finding himself getting lost in words, explaining what he understands from the world and helping others. Besides a journalist, he is also a thinker and proactive in digital transformation strategies. Knowledge and ideas have no limits.