Futurist Keynote Speaker Jim Carroll: Disruptive Trend & Innovation Expert

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Archives for June 2005

Winding down for the summer

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It’s been a hectic many weeks, with a huge number of events:

  • a keynote for the head office of Daimler Chrysler in Auburn Hills, Michigan, to help kick off their strategic planning session
  • an address to the annual sales meeting for Playtex on key outdoor trends
  • a keynote for the Equipment Leasing Association conference in San Diego
  • a web conference for Microsoft for small business executives on future trends and corporate agility
  • a half day working session with MDS Nordion, a global leader in medical equipment, on future health care trends
  • a keynote for the Ontario Government Executive Dialogue, for senior management, on key global trends and the impact on the delivery of government services
  • a dinner keynote for the annual sales meeting for Parker Hannifin

It’s been busy! I’ve got two events this week, two in the summer, and then pretty well wind down until the fall. Upcoming?

  • a keynote for the Government Finance Oficers Association in San Antonio, Texas
  • opening a Pennsylvania technical education conference
  • opening the Canadian Chartered Business Valuators Conference
  • and a keynote for the Farm Credit Cooperative organization in Orlando.

Posting here will likely be few and far between.

Lastest book: “The Masters of Business Imagination”

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I’ve started working on my latest book, set for release in the late fall of 2005: The Masters of Business Imagination: Acheiving Agility in the High-Velocity Economy, to be published by Oblio Press, takes a look at the methods by which you can instill a culture of creativity, curiosity, flexibility and agility to cope with a business world that is moving faster than ever before.

Government Finance Officers Association 2005 in San Antonio, Texas

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I’ll be keynoting the Government Finance Officers Association annual conference later this month, addressing a few thousand financial officials for state and municipal governments from throughout the US and Canada.

There’s plenty of opportunity for innovation in this sector — if folks can get engaged, creative and are willing to effect change. Much of it involves getting people in government to think differently about their role — we have an opportunity to “run the business better,” “grow the business” and “transform the business,” through innovative ways of working, collaboration, information sharing. Not to mention the opportunities for policy transformation and renewal that responds to the rapid economic, global, demographic and workforce change occurring all around us.

VOIP is not! Skype is hot!

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VOIP is so yesterday …..

I posted my list of major telecom trends here the other day…..and I can’t emphasize enough how quickly the telecom market is being destroyed and rebuilt with entire new paradigms….

In the last few weeks, I’ve put both the VoIPvoice CyberPhone K and the ActionTec Internet Phone Wizard on my desk.

Both let you call my new Dallas, Texas telephone number; when you do that, a phone on my desk in Mississauga (Toronto), Ontario rings. My cost for the Dallas number? $38 per year.

Both are absolutely wonderful products: the design is simple, straightforward, and the level of software integration is just stunningly simple. Implemetation was less than a minute. If you are a Skype user, get either one! I can’t figure out which one I like best since they are so cool.

Both products are based on Skype, the phone service that doesn’t just change existing telecom business models — it obliterates them.

I can pick up the phone, and make a call to any Skype user, just as if I were making a regular phone call. Better yet, and this is the key, I can call any telephone number in North America for 2 cents a minute.

Take what Skype is doing, add products like this, witness 100 startups to the telecom industry, and you’ve got an existing industry model that is just simply about to disappear…..

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