Putting human creativity and judgement at the heart of your collaboration with AI
We help organisations enhance the human judgement and creativity now needed
to gain a competitive advantage when applying AI to business challenges
Building the Human Advantage in the AI era
We help organisations realign their strategic priorities for AI collaboration then offer three capability building programmes designed to boost the human skills now needed to maximise the power of AI.
– Sharper thinking: We run a capability building programme aimed at sharpening critical thinking skills and human judgement when working alongside AI on business challenges
– Bolder Creativity: We have a programme on how to strengthen human creativity when engaging with AI as your creative partner
– Inspiring communications: We’ve run a programme designed to help humans fashion persuasive communications that tell the business story whilst utilising AI as a powerful support tool
Polymathmind.ai
In association with Decision Architects we co-founded the Polymathmind .ai consultancy to support organisations wishing to dial up the human advantage whilst working with AI so as to generate a distinctive competitive advantage.
The Polymathmind philosophy ensures we apply the breadth and depth of interdisciplinary thinking needed in the AI era to generate solutions that provide that creative edge .
The extensive business and management consultancy experience of the Polymathmind co – founders means that we bring outstanding creativity and rich experience to the challenge of successfully collaborating with AI.
Our book The Art of Collaborating with AI: Harnessing the Power of Diverse Thinking is now available.
Find out more at Polymathmind .ai and on our SubStack.
Entrepreneurialism
David’s book – The Entrepreneur Mindset: The Art of Making Ideas Happen – provides numerous tips for business entrepreneurs on how to enhance their performance and take their businesses to the next level.
Business Consultancy
DVL Smith has a 30 year award winning track record of successfully conducting business and insight projects for a wide range of leading global organisations.
David is the author of The High Performance Customer Insight Professional: How to make sense of the evidence, build the story and turn insights into action
About Us
David founded DVL Smith and built this up to be a major insight and business consultancy that then became part of a global marketing communications group with David taking the role of Chairman and CEO until DVL Smith was relaunched in 2007 as an independent consultancy.
David VL Smith
David holds a PhD in Organisational Psychology from the University of London and is a Professor at the University of Hertfordshire Business School where he is an Entrepreneur in Residence specialising in entrepreneurship.
He’s a former Vice President of ESOMAR and a former Chairman of the UK Market Research Society. In addition to being a Fellow of the Market Research Society, he is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing and also the Institute of Consulting where he is a Certified Management Consultant.
Awards
David holds ESOMAR’s Excellence Award for Marketing Intelligence, the MRS Silver Medal and the client organisation AURA’s Award for Driving the Industry Forward. He is a two times winner of the ESOMAR Congress Best Paper award and numerous other awards from the Market Research Society, ESOMAR and other insight and business organisations.
The Art of Collaborating with AI: Harnessing the Power of Diverse Thinking
David VL Smith’s latest book, written with Adam Riley, provides a powerful and practical guide for knowledge workers navigating the AI era.
It shows how to build the human advantage – through creativity, sensemaking, storytelling and emotional intelligence – whilst working symbiotically with AI.
Available from Routledge, Amazon UK and Amazon US.
The Entrepreneur Mindset
DVL Smith’s book – The Entrepreneur Mindset: The Art of Making Ideas Happen – helps you cultivate the power of your mindset and make your ideas happen.
This practical guide takes you on a transformative journey through seven dimensions of the Entrepreneur Mindset.
The High Performance Customer Insight Professional
DVL Smith’s book – The High Performance Customer Insight Professional – is a practical guide for today’s insight professional.
The book focuses on how to find the story in the evidence, build compelling insight narratives, and ensure insights are effectively implemented. Available on Amazon UK and Amazon US.
The Art and Science of Interpreting Market Research Evidence
This pioneering book, published in 2004 by John Wiley, was one of the first to introduce the holistic analysis of different sources of research evidence.
This book provides a number of frameworks and techniques for building an integrated insight story.
