I was in Louisville, Kentucky yesterday, as the closing speaker for the annual conference of the American Nursery and Landscape Association, This was a repeat booking…
Agriculture & Food · Growth Strategy
Jim Carroll was a keynote speaker at the American Nursery and Landscape Association (ANLA) Management Clinic, held February 6–9, 2009, in Louisville, Kentucky. The…
Agriculture & Food · Event Highlights
Over the last few weeks, I've had a variety of conference calls with CEO's or senior executives for a variety of clients in the retail, food, industrial manufacturing…
From the Archives · Innovation
Here's a clip from my keynote for the World HealthCare Innovation & Technology Congress, where I focus on the key trends impacting the healthcare industry out to 2020…
Healthcare & Pharma · Videos
Here's another clip from my closing keynote at the World Healthcare Innovation & Technology conference -- in this case, I'm talking about the dreaded "innovation…
How to be Innovative · Innovation
I received the DVD of my closing keynote for the World Healthcare Innovation & Technology Congress today. It was a barnburner of a speech! The attendees had just…
Growth Strategy · Healthcare & Pharma
Here's an interesting way to think about the issue of high-velocity product innovation. I was keynoting a conference at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, last September, and…
Innovation · Media & Technology
A reporter called yesterday, wanting to speak about the "Obama economy." One of the questions: "what will really happen with the potential economic stimulus package?"…
Megatrends · Think Big (Innovation Strategy)
In the last week, Europe has suffered through a dreadful cold spell. A huge polar arctic air mass is coming into North America next week. It could very well snow in…
Keynotes & Events · Retail & Consumer
There are a lot of hits coming into my web site searching for "food industry trends 2009" or "2009 food trends." I've spent a fair amount of time through the last few…
Consumer & Food · Retail & Consumer
I just finalized my review of the entries for the 2009 Monarch Innovation Awards; for the second year in a row, I've been one of the panel of judges for the awards. The…
Financial Services & Banking · Innovation
It's 2009, and it looks like I'll be quite busy with a number of organizations who are focused on innovating their way into the future. A few of the upcoming…
Growth Strategy · Keynotes & Events
