Video : Brand authenticity is the new benchmark
How is social networking impacting brands? Take a look!
Branding & Marketing · Customers & Branding
14 Key Innovation Strategies for Financial Advisors & Financial Organizations
(This post was originally written back in 2010 after I did a talk for the National Australia Bank financial advisory team. Sometimes, trends posts don't bear up well…
Financial Services & Banking · Keynotes & Events
Keynote: Joint Navy and Air Force Child & Youth Programs Conference - Future Trends for Military Families
Jim Carroll was the keynote speaker at the Joint Navy and Air Force Child and Youth Programs (CYP) Conference, held January 24–28, 2010. The conference brought together…
Event Highlights · Event Highlights - Government
US Air Force & Navy Child Youth Programs, Dallas: Aligning To The Future of Counselling & Recreation
Michelle Obama believed that a big challenge existed with military families, and specifically, that not enough was being done to help social counsellors and recreation…
Event Highlights · Event Highlights - Major
What do world class innovators do that others don't do?
I was in Chicago earlier this week; I had a keynote for the leadership team of a company that's involved in a sector of the construction industry. They've had some…
Construction & Infrastructure · How to be Innovative
The future: "...think in terms of transformation .. & .. manage the expectation gap..."
Another report on my keynote for 4,000 at the annual meeting of the National Parks & Recreation Association, putting into a concise summary the key trends that I covered…
Energy & Utilities · Keynotes & Events
10 Phrases to Think About for 2010
The chance that your company, markets, competitors will be the same in ten years is virtually zero - so what do you do about that? Here's 10 phrases I often use to…
Innovation · Strategy
Innovators focus on "corporate agility'
How quickly can you scale if you encounter a new market opportunity? How quickly can you react to a crisis. In this clip, Jim takes a look at the concept of corporate…
Agility · Faster - The Acceleration Economy
Video: Food industry trends - it's all about velocity!
In the food industry -- it's all faster. A faster focus on 'fresh' food. New taste trends happen faster. There's faster innovation with ethical packaging. And so it's…
Consumer & Food
Innovators aren't afraid to ask tough questions!
In fact, the realities are that not only are innovative people unafraid to ask questions, they aren't afraid to: ask the tough questions act on the answers to those…
How to be Innovative · Innovation
Cardboard people, plasma people: Generational change and innovation!
How do you master innovation? Through the powerful story in this video clip, I point out the challenges that organizations face with the different generations in the…
Change · How to be Innovative
How to get faster when the world is faster...
What should innovative organizations do? When everything is faster still, focus on these things: build up experiential capital - think big, start small, scale fast. The…
Faster - The Acceleration Economy · Innovation