Futurist Keynote Speaker Jim Carroll: Disruptive Trend & Innovation Expert

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Recent topic areas

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jim-topics.jpgJim Carroll covers dozens of concise issues in a huge number of different industries, including

  • life sciences
  • health care
  • insurance
  • automotive
  • manufacturing
  • agriculture
  • technology
  • education
  • consumer goods
  • marketing and advertising
  • government
  • retail
  • banking ….

Some of the recent topics covered include

  • hyper-innovation and rapid time to market
  • Gen-Connect
  • career obsolescence
  • competing in a post-flat world
  • just-in-time knowledge
  • global economic trends
  • de-commoditization strategies
  • high-velocity marketing
  • global health care issues
  • the global innovation idea loop
  • corporate agility
  • the rapid emergence of big-markets
  • the science-driven skills crisis
  • bio-connectivity
  • marketing to Gen-Y / Gen-Connect
  • nomadic workers
  • experiential knowledge

About Jim Carroll, MBI

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JC-blog.jpg(*) “The world doesn’t need many more folks with a Masters of Business Administration — it needs a lot more with a Masters in Business Imagination!” Jim Carroll, imagining what it would be like if we could earn our MBI

Here’s a bit of background about Jim

  • a leading international futurist, trends & innovation expert, recently covered in The Advertiser, Credit Suisse’s Bulletin, Dubai’s Capital Magazine …
  • The Walt Disney Corporation needed to inspire senior staff on the topics of innovation and creativity: and brought in Jim Carroll
  • Business Week : “Jim is one of four leading sources for insight on innovation and creativity”
  • a featured expert on the prime time CNBC series, “The Business of Innovation,” hosted by Maria Bartiromo
  • Credit Suisse profiles Jim Carroll in their global customer publication Bulletin: “unique insight on growth”
  • Example keynote: 7 Things You Need to Do Right Now: Aligning The Fast Future to Your Current Strategy
  • a strategic thinker and “thought “leader” – deep insight into trends, the future, creativity, innovation, with a global client base that includes Nestle, Motorola, American Society for Quality, Caterpillar, SAP, Verizon, the BBC, Microsoft, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Property and Casualty Insurance Association of America, and the Swiss Innovation Forum and many more — see the client list
  • an author, columnist, media commentator, consultant, with a focus on linking future trends to innovation and creativity, provides high energy keynotes for audiences of 3,000, or intimate, detailed customized strategic planning insight for CEO / board / senior management meetings
  • hundreds of thousands have shared his insight with highly energized presentations in Zurich, New York, Vancouver, Cayman Islands, Palm Springs, London, Los Angeles, Budapest, Miami, Toronto, Costa Rica, San Francisco, Nassau and Stockholm,
  • Jim is the author of Ready, Set, Done: How to Innovate When Faster is the New Fast, and What I Learned From Frogs in Texas: Saving Your Skin with Forward Thinking Innovation
  • Sample topic: Game Changers: The 8 Big Trends That Will Rock Your World
  • an 18 year track record in providing direct, independent guidance to a huge, diverse client base, combined with a previous professional financial background, including 12 years with the world’s largest professional services firm
  • he has researched key innovation success factors for dozens of industries, associations, professions, companies, individuals
  • has provided industry specific keynotes and strategic planning sessions for life sciences, health care, insurance, automotive, manufacturing, agriculture, technology, education, government, consumer products, retail, banking, and countless other industries
  • he has provided his insight in dozens of books, in over 600 articles, and in over 3,000 interviews on radio, television and in print, with media exposure and interviews with ABC News, BusinessWeek, INC, Fast Company, CNBC, Texas Meetings and Events, the South China Morning Post (Hong Kong), American Way, The Age (Sydney, Australia), CAPITAL Magazine (Dubai/United Arab Emirates) CEO Magazine Hungary, Association LEADERSHIP, the National Post and PROFIT, to name but a few

What Comes Next? An Outlook into 2008 and Beyond

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FutureTrends.pngAs we end the year and start a new one, it’s a good time to be thinking about some of the trends and issues which will impact us in the future.

Take a look at my newly released quick-report, What Comes Next: A Trends Perspective for 2008 and Beyond .

My message for my clients throughout the year – whether it was 2,000 executives at the World Congress for Quality, or the senior management team of one of the largest commercial construction companies in the US — was consistent. The high-velocity economy demands that we think, react, plan and manage differently.

Some of the guidance I shared with global clients concerning future trends is found in the report; I highlight what I think are some of the most important ones that we need to be thinking about, broadly defined as:

  • revenge of the math geeks
  • small is the new R&D
  • attitude and amusement is the new motivation
  • time disappears
  • resistance to change retires
  • careers end
  • knowledge & skills banks dominate
  • interactivity redefines markets

It’s an Adobe Acrobat document; feel free to grab it, share it, and distribute it!

I prepared the document on a MacBook Pro — I made the switch from Windows this year! — using the TokyoRPG Style Template for iWork 2007 Pages from KeynotePro. They have awesome styles for Pages and Keynote; if you’re an OS/X and iWork user, take a look.

  • Grab the What Comes Next PDF now
  • Learn more about iWork Themes from KeynotePro

Why Santa Rocks at Innovation!

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SantaRocks.jpgGrab the SantaRocks! PDF now
It’s likely a good time to put into perspective the critical lessons we can learn from someone who is a true master of leadership, insight, creativity and innovation.

None other than the jolly old fellow himself!

Santa is an innovation master. Analyze his leadership style, and his operational insight, motivational style, approach to creativity, forward thinking orientation, or any other management trait, and he has it nailed.

Grab this PDF file, and feel free to share it around the office or with your friends. It’s a fun little piece I wrote last year; it turned out to be a surprise hit in the blogosphere, so this year I’ve gussied it up a bit so that everyone can share.

There’s a lot of innovation stories to learn from the jolly old fellow!

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When thermostats get connected …..

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MSN-Connectivity.jpgMSN Sympatico, in partnership with Cisco, has launched a new business portal in which I’m featured.

I’ll be offering up my thoughts, in the form of articles and video clips, issues related to innovation, trends and the future.

In this first video clip, I talk about the unique world of massive connectivity — a world where I can actually link from my cell phone into a cottage thermostat. One of my latest columns also focused on the continued trend to a digitized home — in Home, Smart Home, I take a look at some of the emerging technologies.

That future exists today : simply look to Proliphix. Plain old furnace thermostats — except with a LAN connection built in. You can access your furnace thermostat from anywhere via your Web browser, and so you can control the heat in a cottage or other remote location. And since Proliphix has also released an API, you can write a little bit of code to access and control it through your cell phone.

This is game changing stuff — in that a simple connected device will change careers, industries, design, construction. There’s also a huge impact on energy efficiency with this type of stuff; remote control and management at the residential level will will a lot of innovative, green solutions towards energy consumption.

I will be keynoting the Plumbing-Heating-Contracting-Cooling Association’s annual Construction Contractors’ Alliance Meeting in Dallas, Texas in February 2008, taking a look at some key trends occurring in the construction industry. This type of connected device, set to become a part of our digital lives, will certainly be part of the discussion.

Related postings:

  • Article – Home, smart home
  • Proliphix web enabled thermostats

Making generations work – Cardboard people and plasma people

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Can you innovate across the generations? If you can’t — then you’ve got a big problem to fix!

I do a tremendous number of keynotes that focus on the issue of “managing Millenials,” and the complexities of change occurring in the workplace. See, for example, my blog post, “Don’t Mess with my Powder, Dude.” (below)

Yet organizations need to move beyond the staffing issues that come with new generations: they must also ensure that they can innovate at the rapid rates demanded in our new world, and they need to do that by keeping up with the new ideas and innovations occurring with younger staff.

In this video clip, I take a look at the story of the “plasma people” and the “carboard people.” Innovation occurs when different generations — with different attitudes to change — can cooperate and see eye to eye, and take advantage of different strengths. In this clip, I tell the story where this clearly wasn’t the case!

This is a video clip from a recent keynote that I gave for hundreds of executives from the grocery and consumer products industries, titled Faster is the New Fast: Innovating for the New. High-Velocity Customer. This story also became the opening chapter in my book, Ready, Set, Done: How to Innovate When Faster is the New Fast.

 

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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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