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Daily Inspiration: “Inaction is not a good excuse for failure!”
“Inaction is not a good excuse for failure!” Futurist Jim Carroll
Today I open the Canadian Manufacturing Technology Show, the largest such event in Canada. It’s a perilous time for manufacturing, yet one that is full of opportunity. 3D printing, digitization of the factory, robotics and more provides an opportunity for innovation, at the same time that global politics threatens to challenge the sector. Innovators will get ahead by taking advantage of trends ….. not by sitting and waiting for other things to happen. Hence, today’s quote!
Keynote: Canadian Manufacturing and Technology Show, Toronto, Canada – End of Runway Manufacturing, 3D Printing and the End of Inventory
This is the biggest manufacturing conference in Canada, organized by SME (previously, the Society of Manufacturing Engineers). This is the 4th time SME has had me headline an event – two other notable ones were the massive IMX show in Las Vegas, and the Big-M manufacturing conference in Detroit.
Video: Upcoming Keynote on Disruption – Chicago and Dallas
Baker McKenzie is one of the largest law firms in the US, and they’ve engaged me to come in and keynote their annual client conference in Dallas and Chicago this November.
As with many of these talks, I’ve put together a little teaser video that they can share with their clients in advance to gain their interest. Give it a watch!
Daily Inspiration: “Business models? They were built to be broken!”
“Business models? They were built to be broken!” – Futurist Jim Carroll
‘Yesterday, I wrote a foreword for the a new book by a good friend, Jessica Levin, and also offered some comments on restructuring some sections of the book. Given that it is close to print, she asked whether one could easily revise a book after it had come out – and I responded, of course! With this memorab”le line.
In today’s fast paced world, any business model is transient, temporary and subject to change!’’
Daily Inspiration: “There’s a huge opportunity for North American manufacturing to reinvent itself to compete in the world economy…..”
“There’s a huge opportunity for North American manufacturing to reinvent itself to compete in the world economy. We’re not going to do it by building walls and wishing that the jobs of the 1950s come back. It’s all about robotics, 3D printing, digitization of the factory, mass customization and so much more!” -Futurist Jim Carroll
I keynote the largest Canadian manufacturing conference this coming Monday. The folks at New Equipment Digest interviewed me for my thoughts on the future of manufacturing, and just ran the article, from which this quote is based. We live in this crazy world in which crazy people are making fake promises to people about the future – and a real world of real trends that are providing challenges, opportunities — the destruction of old jobs and the emergence of new jobs.
I’m being booked by a LOT of manufacturing CEO’s for talks on the future of manufacturing. They know the future isn’t found in crazy talk but in the reality of a fast paced future.
Stop the crazy! Understand trends.’’
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