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“He prowled the stage like a preacher”

An interesting article in InformationWeek, covering my Sunday night keynote for the Society...

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The disappearance of change management?

I'm off today to Montreal, to keynote the 2007 International Financial Leaders Forum. This is...

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Quality, skills and the high-velocity economy

Back in May, I keynoted the World Congress on Quality / American Society for Quality, a fairly...

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With all due respect to Web 2.0, what’s really important at a strategic level?

In the last few weeks, I've had several high-level sessions with the CEO and management team...

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Groundhogs, innovation, and the end of summer

I'm back at work, although when you work at home, you never truly leave it.There were two...

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Ready, Set, Done: Jim Carroll’s latest book

We've got a cover, and have the first draft of my newest book in for design/edit.Titled...

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Ready, set, DONE!

Just about thirty seconds ago, I finished off the final chapter of my next book. We'll fire up...

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Faster is the new fast: innovating for the new, high velocity customer

In the fast paced world of instant obsolsolescence and rapid innovation, time-to-market is becoming...

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Innovation in the global energy industry

I spent a half day last week with the CEO and senior management team of a large global energy...

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What do innovative companies do that other companies don’t do?

Innovative organizations focus upon the concept of agility: they can manage fast change, new...

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The future of the legal profession

Some weeks back, I spent a full day with about 40 senior lawyers with a major government agency,...

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Trends and big transformative changes. Example: health care

The view of the future by most is often short term oriented. What happens when you think about long...

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Innovation – agility is critical

I often talk on stage to my clients about the concept of organizational agility: that is, the...

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“Don’t Mess with my Powder, Dude: Managing People and Projects in The Flat World”

Tenrox, a company that provides companies an intgelligent infrastructure for rapid workforce...

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Innovating in the high velocity economy

What does it mean to function in the high velocity economy?It's all about learning to operate...

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The new mourning …..

In the last year, I have been the keynote speaker for three different conferences of funeral...

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Innovation and the new workforce

I'm keynoting the annual IHRIM (International Human Resource Information Management)...

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Innovating in the era of instant obsolescence

We're in the era of instant obsolescence: can you innovate fast enough to keep up? Can you...

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Innovation, and the big “what-if’s?”

I've long posted this challenge to my clients: can your organization deal with the rapidity of...

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Hyperconnectivity — 1998 and on…

You can read the original blog post Hyperconnectivity? Innovation at Nortel? Invent what's...

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Hyperconnectivity? Innovation at Nortel? Invent what’s already invented!

Gosh, I just wish Nortel would wake up one day. They haven't yet. Their much hyped new...

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Rethinking quality in the high-velocity economy

It's been a whirldwind two weeks, with keynotes in Orlando x 2, Boca Raton, Vancouver, and a...

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Outsourcing transitions from cost savings to strategic necessity

My latest CAMagazine column is out ; in it, I focus on the role that financial executives...

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Banking and furniture industries — coping at high velocity!

It's been a busy week, with keynotes for the American Community Bankers Association and the...

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Where is the insight?

There are quite a few people out there who talk about innovation, all of whom have a very...

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Health care industry keynotes

A bit of a backgrounder on my work in the health care sector/Partial client listWaters...

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Messing with bits of business strategy ….

When you are on stage, you're mind is working at light speed, as you synthesize your knowledge...

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10 Long Term Trends of Real Substance

The level of hype right now with "social networking" and technology is getting a bit out of hand....

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10 Truths about the Future

In my keynotes, I often talk about how the rate of change -- whether with business models,...

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Video – innovation and education

Some weeks ago, I spoke at the University of Oklahoma, on the role of innovation in...

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High velocity retail innovation

Back in October 2005, I identified the major trends that would sweep the retail and consumer...

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Article: Innovators look beyond the horizon

CAPITAL Magazine in Dubai has run my article, "Tomorrow is the New Today."The article is...

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The Future of Risk: Achieving Skills Agility in the High Velocity Economy

Back to work, and I'm off to San Antonio, Texas, to keynote the Property and Casualty Insurers...

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Innovation? Do things you’ve never done before!

Several people who have read this blog for a long time have commented that I seem to be a bit...

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Minds of their own

One of my regular columns focused this month on the issue of "hyperconnectivity."Quite...

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Corporate banking at high velocity

I spoke last week at a senior level banking conference; in attendance were C and VP level...

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Fast to innovate. Fast to build. Fast to market.

Though I spend my time travelling the world with my innovation message, it's nice to find some...

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What’s happening with our workforce?

Last week, there was a common theme to my keynotes for the University of Oklahoma and for the...

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CNBC : The Business of Innovation

The air date for the five part CNBC series, "The Business of Innovation," hosted by Maria...

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Innovation and the future of education

What's happening with our worforce? That is increasingly the focus of many of my recent...

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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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