Jim Carroll was a keynote speaker at the American Nursery and Landscape Association (ANLA) Management Clinic, held February 6–9, 2009, in Louisville, Kentucky. The Management Clinic is ANLA’s flagship leadership event for senior executives in the green industry, bringing together owners and operators of nursery, greenhouse, and landscape businesses to focus on business strategy and management practice. Jim challenged this audience with a forward-looking look at the trends and disruptive forces reshaping retail, consumer behavior, and the broader business environment — and what it would take for green industry leaders to compete and win. His talk was themed around the idea that even in challenging times, those who play to win by embracing innovation come out ahead.
100 Days of Innovation – #5 – Form Fast Teams
Over the last few weeks, I’ve had a variety of conference calls with CEO’s or senior executives for a variety of clients in the retail, food, industrial manufacturing and consumer product industries.
All of these calls have been related to upcoming keynotes. For example, in May, I’ll be the opening keynote speaker for 3,500 people for a massive global food company in Las Vegas.
The sentiment that comes through from many of these calls is that “the organization needs to move faster” in adapting to rapid market, consumer, brand and competitive change. They realize that in order to do that, they need to change how their organization can scale, collaborate, and share insight on trends, opportunities, challenges and threats.
There’s a critical innovation tip there. Innovative organizations EXCEL at forming fast teams. They’ve realized that their future success comes from scaling — scaling means pulling together key skills at an instant to tackle a new issue. Executing scale is critical — indeed, this is likely a critical success factor for all organizations in the future.
There are still many organizations out there who don’t have this capability. They’re based on decades of hierarchical structure; they’ve been slow and ponderous in their ability to deal with a world in which faster is the new fast. Yet they now know, given the speed of change within the last six months, that the concept of corporate agility is critical, and that increasing, agility is defined by the ability to form fast teams.
Video – The Future of Healthcare
Here’s a clip from my keynote for the World HealthCare Innovation & Technology Congress, where I focus on the key trends impacting the healthcare industry out to 2020.
This was based on a posting I wrote some months back, “It’s January 15, 2020: What Have We Learned About Healthcare in the Last Decade?” That is as good a synopsis of the transformative trends that are occurring now.
- The future of healthcare – a concise, quick summary
Video clip – “Dealing with the innovation killers”
Here’s another clip from my closing keynote at the World Healthcare Innovation & Technology conference — in this case, I’m talking about the dreaded “innovation killers.”
What do you do if you have these people in your organization? Learn more here.
Inspirational video clip – “Innovating during a recession”
I received the DVD of my closing keynote for the World Healthcare Innovation & Technology Congress today. It was a barnburner of a speech!
The attendees had just encountered three wonderful days covering all the fascinating new ideas, technologies, methodologies and change that is coming to the world of health care.
I spoke to them on how to ensure that they pursued all the innovative ideas they heard about. There’s a number of clips that I’ll put up.
In this particular clip, I’m providing a bit of guidance on “setting bold short term goals” and avoiding “aggressive indecision” ; I talk about the seven stages of economic grief — and how you need to move beyond anger and denial to innovation.
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- Innovation and the “Seven Stages of Economic Grief?”
“Dive-in movies” and High-Velocity Product Innovation
Here’s an interesting way to think about the issue of high-velocity product innovation.
I was keynoting a conference at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, last September, and was playing into the theme of how product innovation occurs today at a faster pace than ever before.
I told the story of a ‘dive-in movie’ that I held at home for my sons, and how a simple blog posting got picked up by a huge number of consumer technology companies — with an obvious result.
This particular story was a followup to a trend I was speaking about at an event in New York City in 2005 – that involving the rapid emergence of “outdoor living rooms.”
The key point? No matter what industry you are in — consumer products, financial services, technology — product innovation continues to speed up. New markets and products emerge faster than ever before. New brands, potential challengers, and innovative new ideas emerge at a higher velocity.
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- Next big home entertainment trend? Dive-in movies!
- It’s in to be out! – outdoor trends:
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