Ready, set, DONE!
July 6, 2007, BY JimCarrollJust about thirty seconds ago, I finished off the final chapter of my next book. We'll fire up...
Faster is the new fast: innovating for the new, high velocity customer
June 27, 2007, BY JimCarrollIn the fast paced world of instant obsolsolescence and rapid innovation, time-to-market is becoming...
Innovation in the global energy industry
June 26, 2007, BY JimCarrollI spent a half day last week with the CEO and senior management team of a large global energy...
What do innovative companies do that other companies don’t do?
June 18, 2007, BY JimCarrollInnovative organizations focus upon the concept of agility: they can manage fast change, new...
The future of the legal profession
June 12, 2007, BY JimCarrollSome weeks back, I spent a full day with about 40 senior lawyers with a major government agency,...
Trends and big transformative changes. Example: health care
June 8, 2007, BY JimCarrollThe view of the future by most is often short term oriented. What happens when you think about long...
Innovation – agility is critical
June 4, 2007, BY JimCarrollI often talk on stage to my clients about the concept of organizational agility: that is, the...
“Don’t Mess with my Powder, Dude: Managing People and Projects in The Flat World”
May 25, 2007, BY JimCarrollTenrox, a company that provides companies an intgelligent infrastructure for rapid workforce...
Innovating in the high velocity economy
May 23, 2007, BY JimCarrollWhat does it mean to function in the high velocity economy? It's all about learning to operate...
The new mourning …..
May 22, 2007, BY JimCarrollIn the last year, I have been the keynote speaker for three different conferences of funeral...
Innovation and the new workforce
May 21, 2007, BY JimCarrollI'm keynoting the annual IHRIM (International Human Resource Information Management)...
Innovating in the era of instant obsolescence
May 17, 2007, BY JimCarrollWe're in the era of instant obsolescence: can you innovate fast enough to keep up? Can you...
Innovation, and the big “what-if’s?”
May 15, 2007, BY JimCarrollI've long posted this challenge to my clients: can your organization deal with the rapidity of...
Hyperconnectivity — 1998 and on…
May 15, 2007, BY JimCarrollYou can read the original blog post Hyperconnectivity? Innovation at Nortel? Invent what's...
Hyperconnectivity? Innovation at Nortel? Invent what’s already invented!
May 11, 2007, BY JimCarrollGosh, I just wish Nortel would wake up one day. They haven't yet. Their much hyped new...
Rethinking quality in the high-velocity economy
May 9, 2007, BY JimCarrollIt's been a whirldwind two weeks, with keynotes in Orlando x 2, Boca Raton, Vancouver, and a...
Outsourcing transitions from cost savings to strategic necessity
May 4, 2007, BY JimCarrollMy latest CAMagazine column is out ; in it, I focus on the role that financial executives...
Banking and furniture industries — coping at high velocity!
April 26, 2007, BY JimCarrollIt's been a busy week, with keynotes for the American Community Bankers Association and the...
Where is the insight?
April 19, 2007, BY JimCarrollThere are quite a few people out there who talk about innovation, all of whom have a very...
Health care industry keynotes
April 14, 2007, BY JimCarrollA bit of a backgrounder on my work in the health care sector/ Partial client list Waters...
Messing with bits of business strategy ….
April 11, 2007, BY JimCarrollWhen you are on stage, you're mind is working at light speed, as you synthesize your knowledge...
10 Long Term Trends of Real Substance
April 3, 2007, BY JimCarrollThe level of hype right now with "social networking" and technology is getting a bit out of hand....
10 Truths about the Future
March 30, 2007, BY JimCarrollIn my keynotes, I often talk about how the rate of change -- whether with business models,...
Video – innovation and education
March 29, 2007, BY JimCarrollSome weeks ago, I spoke at the University of Oklahoma, on the role of innovation in...
High velocity retail innovation
March 27, 2007, BY JimCarrollBack in October 2005, I identified the major trends that would sweep the retail and consumer...
Article: Innovators look beyond the horizon
March 26, 2007, BY JimCarrollCAPITAL Magazine in Dubai has run my article, "Tomorrow is the New Today." The article is...
The Future of Risk: Achieving Skills Agility in the High Velocity Economy
March 19, 2007, BY JimCarrollBack to work, and I'm off to San Antonio, Texas, to keynote the Property and Casualty Insurers...
Innovation? Do things you’ve never done before!
March 9, 2007, BY JimCarrollSeveral people who have read this blog for a long time have commented that I seem to be a bit...
Minds of their own
March 8, 2007, BY JimCarrollOne of my regular columns focused this month on the issue of "hyperconnectivity." Quite...
Corporate banking at high velocity
March 5, 2007, BY JimCarrollI spoke last week at a senior level banking conference; in attendance were C and VP level...
Fast to innovate. Fast to build. Fast to market.
March 1, 2007, BY JimCarrollThough I spend my time travelling the world with my innovation message, it's nice to find some...
What’s happening with our workforce?
February 26, 2007, BY JimCarrollLast week, there was a common theme to my keynotes for the University of Oklahoma and for the...
CNBC : The Business of Innovation
February 20, 2007, BY JimCarrollThe air date for the five part CNBC series, "The Business of Innovation," hosted by Maria...
Innovation and the future of education
February 20, 2007, BY JimCarrollWhat's happening with our worforce? That is increasingly the focus of many of my recent...
Instilling innovation with the “trends and innovation feedback loop”
February 16, 2007, BY JimCarrollIn the world of high-velocity change, how could you go about actually keeping on top of all the...
Velocity, Agility, Complexity, and Flexibility……
February 14, 2007, BY JimCarrollI'm doing a private conference call today with more than a hundred executives in the life...
Fidelity Bank (Cayman): Competing in the Global Economy
February 13, 2007, BY JimCarrollJim opened a conference of leading financial, banking and investment professionals, at an...
What happens when light stops?
February 13, 2007, BY JimCarrollWell, for one thing, when light stops, velocity picks up! A few weeks ago, I keynoted a crowd...
Are you watching the major transformations, or just the piddly stuff?
February 6, 2007, BY JimCarrollI spoke in November in Iowa to a group of energy cooperatives, providing some different...
Innovation and insight in manufacturing
February 5, 2007, BY JimCarroll"Do you want to be focusing on the problems of the past, or do you want to outfit your...















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