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The Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association: The Future of Recreation

Jim delivered a dinner keynote for dozens of CEOs of some of the world’s largest sporting...

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Caterpillar: Moving Upscale – Partnership Strategies and Avoiding Commoditzation

Jim addressed their global dealers meeting to provide insight into the unique and innovative...

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10 Unique Characteristics of 21st Century Skills

There's been a lot of talk about the skills crisis lately. Most of it is focused on the wrong thing...

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Sporting Goods Business: “Trend Expert Will Keynote SGMA Conference”

This press release came out mid-August while I was off busy building sandcastles....Trend...

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Why innovation thrives in sandcastle building

We're in big time summer slowdown here now for quite a few weeks ..... yet you can never stop...

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10 major health care / pharmaceutical trends

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The Google Car and massive market disruption

There are a few news stories today about Tesla Motors, which includes numerous hi-tech executives,...

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What’s Next? Trends Shaping the Future of Commercial Horticulture

I've just returned from Vail after doing a keynote and workshop for the American Nursery and...

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It’s summertime!

I'm working doing some research, out in the yard, next to this little fellow --now known as...

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It’s summer — and it’s in to be out!

Forgive me if you've seen me recycle this post, but it's a good trend overview. It's...

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The future of snowboarding and skiing

A journalist recently asked me about the future of snowboarding; there's a lot going on with...

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Bio-engineered body parts, the Cold Store and personalized medicine….

I'm doing a very futuristic talk tomorrow for a major health care company; I'll be talking...

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How do you sell the future to people who have no interest in it?

There have been dozens of keynotes through the last few months. All kinds of industries;...

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Racine County, Wisconsin — something *big* is happening here….

I did a keynote the other night for the Racine County Economic Development Corporate, located...

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Fiber to the home keynote

Industry Luminaries Keynote the 2006 FTTH Conference & Expo in OctoberThis release has...

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Denmark TV interview — Brand image in a low cost economy

Wow! Where did May go?I had keynotes for a huge number of different companies and associations,...

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What makes for corporate agility?

In a recent presentation and Profit article, I focused on how organizations and leaders must...

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Hyper-boomers, Gen-Connect and Manure Managers

One of the most pressing challenges yet to come will be the massive workplace and skills...

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What’s your agility

I spent the day in Pasadena with, and did a keynote for, the Disney Consumer Products group; this...

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Financial industry clients

Some background on the work I've done in this areaPartial Client List - Banking and Finance...

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Yup!

Last week:...to the day before...

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The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC): The Future of Media

The BBC had Jim in for two keynotes focused on the future of broadcasting and...

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Article – “Get on top of rapid change”

From my most recent ProfitGuide article: "If your company culture doesn't embrace agility,...

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Article – “Are we thinking fast enough?”

After my keynote for the Society of Cable Telecom Engineers, I was asked to provide a guest...

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Article – “Are You Prepared for the New Role Associations Will Play?”

An "association of association executives" has just printed my article that takes a look at...

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“Agility key to survival”

More coverage, from Communications Engineering magazine, on my SCTE keynote last month."If...

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The end of 9-5?

I don't think the current corporate structure will last 20 years; it might be difficult to see...

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Farmers, producers, ranchers and innovation…

It's agriculture week! At least, it seems that way -- on Friday, I keynoted the Alberta Beef...

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Understanding 21st century capital …. and why Sony doesn’t have it….

In light of some recent criticism of criticism I've made of media companies, I thought it best...

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Litigate, or create?

One thing has become clear in the past few years: there is a huge amount of wasted creative...

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Don’t repeat the mistakes of the music industry….

Yet more coverage of my keynote for the Society of Cable Telecom Engineers in Tampa last...

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Phil Gyford is one cool guy!

I've had this blog for a few years now, and have done most of the recoding of the MovableType...

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Stopping light in its tracks

An interesting article here.Optical Futures: Another ET Look at Light 24 January 2006 CT's...

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Wireless everywhere….

I do extensive travel throughout North America, and I find that finding a Wi-Fi / WLAN signal...

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Swiss Innovation Forum keynote this Friday!

I'm off tomorrow night to Zurich; on Friday I will do a closing keynote for about 800 senior...

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Keynote – Swiss Innovation Forum, Zurich, Switzerland: Global Innovation Strategies

Jim was the closing speaker for this prestigious international event.He encouraged the...

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Agility, innovation and execution

I've just flown out west to do a dinner keynote for a major telecom company. I wrote an article on...

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Should you go to war with your customers?

Based on the email response and media coverage, my keynote at the SCTE in Tampa yesterday...

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“…the rapid rate of change in cable telecommunications is going from fast to furious …”

Read the full SCTE press release hereShortly after my keynote in Tampa today to open the...

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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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