Futurist Keynote Speaker Jim Carroll: Disruptive Trend & Innovation Expert

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Archives for April 2018

Aligning to Acceleration: Early 2018 Keynote Highlights!

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Wow, is it almost May 1? What a fabulous start for 2018, with keynotes in the lsat 4 months at events in Dubai, Dallas, Houston, Jacksonville, San Francisco, Calgary, San Antonio, Austin, Ft. Lauderdale, Miami, Nashville, Chicago, Albuquerque, and the Town of  the Blue Mountains! (You’ll have to read to the end to understand that last one!)

These have involved association as well as corporate leadership talks that have focused on a vast range of different topics. Everything from disruptive trends, agriculture, transportation, finance, food and consumer behaviour, the energy and utility industries, economic development in the era of acceleration, insurance, healthcare, manufacturing, mining and resources,  to the future of self-driving cars, and more! Here’s an overview of the highlights!

World Government Summit, Dubai, UAE

I was invited to speak at this massive global conference, with 3,400 attendees from 60+ countries worldwide. It’s sponsored and opened by the Prime Minster of Dubai, His Highness Sheikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, and tasked with the issue of examining the future role of government in solving some of the challenges of our time.

It was an absolutely fascinating event; I shared the agenda with other speakers such as Goldie Hawn, Robert deNiro and Forest Whittaker, the head of the International Monetary Fund, the Prime Ministers of France and India, and more!

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Daily Inspiration: “Insufficient insight invites inaction!”

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“Insufficient insight invites inaction!” – Futurist  Jim Carroll

A fabulous photo from the folks at @cdspinow – the financial arm of the Canadian Dental Association – from my keynote for the Ontario Dental Association last Friday in Toronto, Canada.

The quote is a play on a famous phrase from Spock, but so appropritet to our times. You might think the world of dental care does not change much, or slowly, or not at all – but it does. The acceleration of 3D printing technologies for dental implants and more; the constant arrival of new materials and methodologies, ever more challenging patients, dentures and molars that connect via Internet-of-Things (#Iot) technology (yes, that’s a potential thing!) and more.

People and professions need insight into what comes next in order to align themselves to a faster future – without that, they become stuck, suffer from inertia, and fall behind or into irrelevance.

Here’s a question for you – what will you do today to gain the insight that you need to cure your own inertia?

Keynote: Ontario Dental Association, Toronto – The Future of Dentistry

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You might think the world of dental care does not change much, or slowly, or not at all – but it does. The acceleration of 3D printing technologies for dental implants and more; the constant arrival of new materials and methodologies, ever more challenging patients, dentures and molars that connect via Internet-of-Things (#Iot) technology (yes, that’s a potential thing!) and more.

People and professions need insight into what comes next in order to align themselves to a faster future – without that, they become stuck, suffer from inertia, and fall behind or into irrelevance. That was the focus of my keynote for a few thousand dentists at this massive, sprawling conference. And all at 8AM in the morning!

Pre-Keynote Video: A Sneak Peak of My Topic

Daily Inspiration: “Take pride in your success. Seek inspiration from your failure!”

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“Take pride in your success. Seek inspiration from your failure!” – Futurist  Jim Carroll

I was at the driving range yesterday – my home club will open next week as spring has finally arrived.

I was hitting them well. Ok, so some of them, but not all. I found that I was spending more time analyzing the things I was doing wrong on the bad shots, and was working to fix that, rather than the other way around.
Of course, this leaked into my mind as a metaphor for innovation!

Failure is a word that is not really part of our vocabulary, but we all do it, and sometimes frequently. If we can spend more time learning from what caused us to fail, then we can avoid it more in the future. Failure carries a bad connotation in our world, and it shouldn’t for most things. (Though as is said for some things, ‘failure is not an option’) Which is why when people talk about innovation, we use the phrase, “fail often, fail fast!” Failure is the path to learning, insight and innovation!

And so it is with my golf game! Fore!

Big data? Hype? Real? I Dunno, but I’ve Got Real BIG DATA on my Golf Game!

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A good friend just posted on LinkedIn that he thinks “big data” is a hoax.

Let’s start with my golf game. As I describe on stage, I get really good real time data on how bad my golf game is!

The pace and reality of big data depends on the industry, the company, and so much more. Precision farming? It’s very real.  Retail? Amazon has it! Other industries? Maybe not so much. It depends on the industry and so much more.

Big data is one of those things that is at different locations along the Gartner Hypecycle depending on a lot of different factors.

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Video: The Future of Professional Services!

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Just-in-time knowledge. The acceleration of knowledge. Faster emergence of new issues. Skills specialization.

Over 25 years, I have spoken to dozens of professional services firms, including the largest global law and accounting firms. I recently filmed a pre-event video for a global law firm for whom I’m speaking – and cut this generic version from what we did. It’s a good watch for insight on what comes next!

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THE FUTURE BELONGS TO THOSE WHO ARE FAST features the best of the insight from Jim Carroll’s blog, in which he
covers issues related to creativity, innovation and future trends.

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