Keynote: Kone Cranes, Orlando – The Future of Global Shipping and Logistics
May 5, 2015, BY ChristaYou ever see those massive overhead cranes at container piers and shipping locations? That's Kone!...
Keynote Case Study: Konecranes — Reinvented and Refocused: A Look at Global Steel Trends
May 5, 2015, BY JimCarrollIn May 2015, Jim Carroll delivered a Konecranes keynote centered on the forces transforming the...
Keynote: GE Lighting, New York – Construction Design, Methodology and Concepts in the Era of Smart
May 4, 2015, BY ChristaThe energy and construction industry is being massively transformed by connectivity and the...
Keynote Case Study: GE Lighting — Buildings Were Becoming Smart, Connected Systems
May 4, 2015, BY JimCarrollGE Lighting brought me in to examine the future of smart construction, design and...
Keynote: Morneau Shepell, Toronto – The Future of Work: Benefits, Wellness, and the Changing Employer-Employee Contract
April 29, 2015, BY ChristaJim Carroll delivered a keynote for Morneau Shepell in Toronto, in April 2015. As wellness,...
Keynote: Volvo & Mack Trucks, Dallas – How to Sell Proactive, Self-Diagnosing, Connected, Data Driven Trucks
April 23, 2015, BY ChristaThe typical truck today contains more technology than a Cessna airplane. They are connected, aware,...
Keynote Case Study: LIMRA: Data, Digital And A New Generation Of Buyers.
April 23, 2015, BY JimCarrollIn a keynote for LIMRA in Arlington, I explored the future of life insurance at a moment when...
Keynote: LIMRA, Arlington – The Future of Life Insurance: Data, Digital, and a New Generation of Buyers
April 16, 2015, BY ChristaJim Carroll delivered a keynote for LIMRA in Arlington, in April 2015. With Millennials rethinking...
Trend: The End of Life (Insurance)
April 8, 2015, BY JimCarrollThrough the years, I've done a tremendous number of talks within the insurance industry, both...
Keynote: Pepsi, Muskoka – Future Trends in Consumer Products: Innovation at the Shelf
April 7, 2015, BY ChristaJim Carroll delivered a keynote for Pepsi in Muskoka, in April 2015. As health-conscious consumers,...
Everybody likes firetrucks! The lessons of upside-down innovation …
April 6, 2015, BY JimCarrollOf course everyone does, particularly young kids. And as you age, you still marvel at these roaring...
Keynote: BASF – Transformative Trends Defining the Petrochemicals Industry : Houston, Texas
March 30, 2015, BY ChristaThis global organization was celebrating their 150th anniversary throughout 2015 and their theme...
Keynote: NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration): Transformational Leadership.
March 30, 2015, BY JimCarrollThe agency invited Jim to speak to a group of senior leaders to speak on the issue of what...
Keynote Case Study: BASF — A 150-Year Company Was Preparing for What Came Next
March 30, 2015, BY JimCarrollA 150th anniversary naturally invites an organization to look backward. BASF used the moment to...
Keynote: McKesson, Las Vegas – The Acceleration of Healthcare: Supply Chain Meets Digital Health
March 26, 2015, BY ChristaJim Carroll delivered a keynote for McKesson in Las Vegas, in March 2015. With value-based care,...
Keynote Case Study: McKesson — The Healthcare Supply Chain Was Becoming Digital
March 26, 2015, BY JimCarrollThe healthcare system is not only about medicine. It is also about the complex infrastructure...
We're slow, we're doomed, but we aren't going to do anything about it!
March 23, 2015, BY JimCarrollIt's an interesting time for many organizations. There is a wave of business model disruption,...
Consumer Goods & Technology Magazine: 2015 Innovation Outlook
March 17, 2015, BY JimCarrollI'm thrilled that I've again been cover in CG&T Magazine's annual outlook. This marks 4 years...
Keynote: Lincoln Financial Group – The Future of Financial Services: Trust, Technology, and the Digital-First Client
March 11, 2015, BY ChristaJim Carroll delivered a keynote for Lincoln Financial Group in March 2015. With robo-advice, mobile...
Article: 5 Things World Class Innovators Do that Others Do Not
March 2, 2015, BY JimCarroll[caption id="attachment_13585" align="alignright" width="200"] "Innovation is about much more...
Trend: The Looming Corporate Governance Strategy Crisis
February 26, 2015, BY JimCarrollThere was an interesting article in the New York Times on Feb 18: "Careers: 'Board Doctors,' to...
Video: The Acceleration of Knowledge
February 25, 2015, BY JimCarrollSome years back, I worked on a project for Deloitte, which resulted in the video, "What Do World...
Article: “The Need for Speed: Soon Come; Must Go…..”
February 13, 2015, BY JimCarroll"Of particular interest to your editor were the words—and the AK-47 speed at which they were...
Keynote: The Future of the Connected Home, Smartgrids and Energy – Lennox, Dallas
February 11, 2015, BY ChristaWhat's the future of the connected home? What comes next with HVAC? What happens when we integrate...
Keynote Case Study: Lennox — When the Furnace Became Part of a Much Bigger System
February 11, 2015, BY JimCarrollIn February 2015, Jim Carroll delivered a keynote in Dallas for more than 500 Lennox dealers and...
“Everybody knows…..: : Why companies fail at innovation
February 10, 2015, BY JimCarrollI spend a LOT of time doing talks at corporate meetings; often, a CEO or CxO leadership event for a...
Keynote: Big Trends in Agriculture: Transforming the World’s Oldest Profession – CHS Inc, Holland, Michigan
February 5, 2015, BY ChristaWhether it’s driverless tractors, weed-zapping robots or data-transmitting crops, the future of...
Being Agile: How Innovators Thrive in the High Velocity Economy
February 2, 2015, BY JimCarrollI did a keynote a few weeks back for a leading North American food company. It was a highly...
Book review: The Martian!
February 2, 2015, BY JimCarrollI've never done a book review on this blog before, and I suspect I'm not really good at...
Keynote: Trane, Portland – The Future of Buildings: Smart Systems, Connected Infrastructure
January 30, 2015, BY ChristaJim Carroll delivered a keynote for Trane in Portland, in January 2015. As commercial buildings...
The HAL Project: Historical Archiving in Action
January 28, 2015, BY JimCarrollSome weeks back, a post caught my attention, I clicked the link, and followed through. I ended...
25 Trends for 2025 – PDF
January 26, 2015, BY JimCarrollI've put together a full size PDF of my "25 Trends for 2025" document - grab it by clicking the...
Video: A Rollicking Good Bit of Fun!
January 21, 2015, BY JimCarrollFor all the baby boomers out there -- a bit of rollicking good fun, with a look at what we went...
New Keynote Topic: The Internet of Things: Disruption and Opportunity in an Era of Pervasive Connectivity
January 21, 2015, BY JimCarrollEvery industry is set to be transformed as an era of hyper connectivity becomes the new norm. The...
Article: Going fast? The Future Will Be Faster
January 19, 2015, BY JimCarrollA few weeks ago, I was the closing keynote speaker for Potato Expo 2015 in Orlando, with a talk...
Keynote: Land o’ Lakes, Phoenix – Keynote: Fast Consumers and the New World of Retail
January 15, 2015, BY ChristaHow do you innovate when everything is faster still? The typical consumer scans some 12 feet of...
Keynote: Potato Expo 2015, Orlando – The Future of Agriculture
January 9, 2015, BY ChristaIt's the largest potato conference in the world, and they had me in for the closing keynote with a...
Keynote: ProSource – Future Trends in the Connected Home
January 5, 2015, BY ChristaJim Carroll delivered a keynote for ProSource in January 2015. As smart-home technology moved from...



































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