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Archives for December 2010

Where’s the growth? 2011 and beyond……!

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One of the highlights of 2010 had to be the day that I was the opening speaker for the 94th Annual General Meeting of the PGA – Professional Golfers Association of America. It was the first time they have ever had an external speaker open their meeting; I was invited in to discuss the major trends that will continue to impact the growth of the game, and the innovation strategies that could be pursued to accomplish that.

So it is  a fitting way to close out 2010 as we wind down the officer here, by offering up a video clip from that keynote, “Where’s the Growth.” It’s from a section in the talk where I put into perspective some of the key trends and innovations which will provide for sustained economic recovery over time.

There some additional insight on trends going forward into the future in my post, “Trending in 2011: 10 Major Trends to Start Thinking About Now.”

Here’s to 2011 –it’s going to be a great year. Indeed, the future is going to be fabulous!

What’s hot? Search phrases for December 13, 2010

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Here’s another week of unique insight from my blog tracking tool, that links the search phrases that people used to find a page on my site.

This is week #3. This is proving to be a great tool for those who track my site to discover some of the information buried in several thousand blog posts — and might provide you with a unique way of thinking about future trends or innovation!

First is the search phrase that was used on Google, Bing or some other search engine — then a bit of commentary that includes the Web page on my site that the phrase led to.

  • “Innovative bottle caps structure trend” – this search came out of Google’s China search engine, and led them to my “Coping with Ketchup – Innovating in a Fast World” post from 2005. This was a fun little post, having to do with what happened when an upside down ketchup bottle made it into our house – I began to build a story and entire speech topic around the “Coping with Ketchup” phrase
  • “What are the key innovations and technologies for 2010” – led to my “14 key innovation strategies for financial advisors and financial organizations” post, which captures the essence of those trends — mobile, location intelligence and social networks all coming together in a fast blur!
  • “Social networking” – speaking of social networking, this search phrase led to my “Why Social Networking is Like Teenage Sex!” blog post
  • “Rock documentaries list” – this led to my “10 Most Important Innovation-Themed Rock Documentaries of All Time“. Did you know I once had two short term gigs as a temp-roadie for KISS? Those were the days!
  • “Pictures of accountants” – in Google Images, a search for a picture of an accountant leads to the post “Accounting Beyond Accountability“, which provides a little bit more info on my unique background, and which provides even better insight into “The New Face of Manufacturing”
  • “Rules for working at home” — to what I think is one of my best posts – “10 Rules for Working at Home“. This October, I passed by the 20 year mark in terms of working full time out of a home office!
  • “Pharmaceutical consumer trend” – led to the post, “10 major health care / pharmaceutical trends“, which provides a great summary of how this industry is shifting. I’ve done quite a few pharma-oriented keynotes recently, including for Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson
  • “Globalization” – resulted in the blog post, “High velocity globalization, massive markets, major trends.” This was a blog post done just a few weeks before the major market meltdown of autumn 2008. Yet the essence of these trends still holds true today
  • “speack upside down”- a misspelled search led to “Can we talk upside down innovation” which is a great little post about partnership-oriented innovation. Maybe they were looking for something else, but this is still a useful post if you want to challenge yourself as to how you think about innovation.
  • “Start small and scale fast” – led to “Think Big, Start Small, Scale Fast” which is my mantra for innovation

You can look at prior weeks reports under the “What’s Hot” category of my blog.

Ernst Young, Orlando – Healthcare Practice Client Summit

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As one of the largest professional services firms, E&Y is in the midst of assisting organizations to align themselves to fast paced change. Once a year they bring together their key clients in the healthcare space – CEO’s and CxO’s of hospitals, pharma companies, biotech organizations and many more. Someone saw me outline my thoughts on the future of healthcare at the World Pharma Congress a few months earlier, and decided that I would be the perfect match to get them thinking about what comes next in this industry, with a particular focus on the science, technology and other trends redefining the healthcare opportunity.

Pre-Keynote Video: A Sneak Peak of My Topic

Book (re) Release – Surviving the Information Age!

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For the fun of it, in October 2010, I worked to re-release a Kindle and iPhone edition of one of my old books from the 1990s, Surviving the Information Age. This was easily done with the conversion assistance of Reality Info Systems located in Maharashtra, Pune, India — a company I found through eLance Online.

The book is now available on Amazon, and as an iBook for your iPhone or iPad on iTunes.

Here’s the blurb from the “jacket cover”:

Originally published in 1997, Surviving the Information Age offers a unique look into the experiences that Baby Boomers had when confronted by massive doses of technology throughout their lives.

The result, as described throughout the book, was a generation that was generally terrorized by the arrival of technology into various aspects of their everyday life.

 

The book also offered, at the time, a remarkably prescient series of predictions about the impact of the Internet on the global economy, the workforce, the nature of the career, and other key trends. In that way, it was a groundbreaking book, far ahead of its time.

Surviving the Information Age is a historical artifact — a document that describes, in unique detail, the experience of a generation with technology, long before that technology had a chance to mature and cause massive global change.

You might find the book to be an interesting read if you find history to be fascinating; if you want to know what it was like in the ‘early days of the Internet age (if we can call the mid-90’s early; by that point, I’d be on the Internet and its precursors for some 15 years!); and if you want some insight into what helped to bring us to where we are today!

Click here to grab it on Amazon.com in print or for Kidnel!

Click here to grab it for your iPhone or Ipad with iBooks!

What’s hot? Search phrases for Dec 6, 2010

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A semi-regular report of search phrases on JimCarroll.com

A few weeks ago, I began using the Reinvigorate.Net “simple, real time web analytics & heatmaps” service on  my Website.

I thought it might be of interest to put in perspective, on a weekly basis, some of the things that people have been discovering on my site. With over 1,100 blog posts full of insight and content, there’s a lot of information in there!

So here’s the 2nd version of ‘search phrases’ that people were using this week — and the Web page on my site that the search engine directed them to.

Listed first is the search phrase; next is the page that they ended upon at my site.

NASA, Houston – Transformational Leadership During a Time of Significant Transition

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What do you do when you are the worlds leading space organization, and things are in a bit of a funk? Funding cutbacks, the cancellation of missions and programs, You engage a futurist to come in for a talk on the issue of ‘transformational leadership’ and what great leaders do to redefine their future in an era of significant transition. And NASA found me, and I found myself in a room giving a dinner talk to a group that included astronauts, launch directors, (literally) rocket engineers and more. One thing I did – in order to take them into the future,I took them back into their past to demonstrate to them all the other times that they faced similar situations, rose to the challenge, and accelerated to the future! Read the blog post which summarized their reaction. One of the highlights of my 25 year speaking career!

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