The future of sporting goods in a world of high velocity….
October 25, 2006, BY JimCarrollI'm off today to give the dinner keynote for the Sporting Goods Manucturers Association Sports and...
Your customers are high-velocity? Are you?
October 24, 2006, BY JimCarrollDoes your organization have the right stuff to deal with todays' information-empowered, globally...
“….the concept of nine-to-five will have just absolutely disappeared….”
October 18, 2006, BY JimCarrollAt this point, I've been working at home for close to eighteen years. When you've been doing...
Can you run your business at video-game intensity?
October 17, 2006, BY JimCarrollVideo game business intensity is coming to all industries. This provides some important food for...
Healthcare and medical trends
October 6, 2006, BY JimCarrollGet ready for bio-connectivity, skills wars, knowledge obsolesence and bio-informatics, not to...
Can you deal with velocity?
September 20, 2006, BY JimCarrollThe future belongs to those who are fast - that's the reality of velocity! Watch this clip with Jim...
Four Sources For Trends And Ideas …..
September 17, 2006, BY JimCarrollIt seems BusinessWeek has noticed my comments on trends, the future, and innovation. They've...
Next big home entertainment trend? Dive-in Movies!
September 16, 2006, BY JimCarrollWe're still having a bit of a stretch of warm weather, and tonight promises to be great. With...
The Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association: The Future of Recreation
September 15, 2006, BY JimCarrollJim delivered a dinner keynote for dozens of CEOs of some of the world’s largest sporting...
Caterpillar: Moving Upscale – Partnership Strategies and Avoiding Commoditzation
September 11, 2006, BY JimCarrollJim addressed their global dealers meeting to provide insight into the unique and innovative...
10 Unique Characteristics of 21st Century Skills
September 7, 2006, BY JimCarrollThere's been a lot of talk about the skills crisis lately. Most of it is focused on the wrong thing...
Sporting Goods Business: “Trend Expert Will Keynote SGMA Conference”
August 21, 2006, BY JimCarrollThis press release came out mid-August while I was off busy building sandcastles....Trend...
Why innovation thrives in sandcastle building
August 8, 2006, BY JimCarrollWe're in big time summer slowdown here now for quite a few weeks ..... yet you can never stop...
10 major health care / pharmaceutical trends
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The Google Car and massive market disruption
July 21, 2006, BY JimCarrollThere are a few news stories today about Tesla Motors, which includes numerous hi-tech executives,...
What’s Next? Trends Shaping the Future of Commercial Horticulture
July 18, 2006, BY JimCarrollI've just returned from Vail after doing a keynote and workshop for the American Nursery and...
It’s summertime!
July 6, 2006, BY JimCarrollI'm working doing some research, out in the yard, next to this little fellow --now known as...
It’s summer — and it’s in to be out!
July 5, 2006, BY JimCarrollForgive me if you've seen me recycle this post, but it's a good trend overview. It's...
The future of snowboarding and skiing
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Bio-engineered body parts, the Cold Store and personalized medicine….
June 27, 2006, BY JimCarrollI'm doing a very futuristic talk tomorrow for a major health care company; I'll be talking...
How do you sell the future to people who have no interest in it?
June 7, 2006, BY JimCarrollThere have been dozens of keynotes through the last few months. All kinds of industries;...
Racine County, Wisconsin — something *big* is happening here….
June 2, 2006, BY JimCarrollI did a keynote the other night for the Racine County Economic Development Corporate, located...
Fiber to the home keynote
June 2, 2006, BY JimCarrollIndustry Luminaries Keynote the 2006 FTTH Conference & Expo in October This release has...
Denmark TV interview — Brand image in a low cost economy
May 26, 2006, BY JimCarrollWow! Where did May go? I had keynotes for a huge number of different companies and associations,...
What makes for corporate agility?
April 28, 2006, BY JimCarrollIn a recent presentation and Profit article, I focused on how organizations and leaders must...
Hyper-boomers, Gen-Connect and Manure Managers
April 27, 2006, BY JimCarrollOne of the most pressing challenges yet to come will be the massive workplace and skills...
What’s your agility
April 26, 2006, BY JimCarrollI spent the day in Pasadena with, and did a keynote for, the Disney Consumer Products group; this...
Financial industry clients
April 17, 2006, BY JimCarrollSome background on the work I've done in this area Partial Client List - Banking and Finance...
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC): The Future of Media
March 30, 2006, BY JimCarrollThe BBC had Jim in for two keynotes focused on the future of broadcasting and...
Article – “Get on top of rapid change”
March 28, 2006, BY JimCarrollFrom my most recent ProfitGuide article: "If your company culture doesn't embrace agility,...
Article – “Are we thinking fast enough?”
March 7, 2006, BY JimCarrollAfter my keynote for the Society of Cable Telecom Engineers, I was asked to provide a guest...
Article – “Are You Prepared for the New Role Associations Will Play?”
February 27, 2006, BY JimCarrollAn "association of association executives" has just printed my article that takes a look at...
“Agility key to survival”
February 23, 2006, BY JimCarrollMore coverage, from Communications Engineering magazine, on my SCTE keynote last month. "If...
The end of 9-5?
February 22, 2006, BY JimCarrollI don't think the current corporate structure will last 20 years; it might be difficult to see...
Farmers, producers, ranchers and innovation…
February 21, 2006, BY JimCarrollIt's agriculture week! At least, it seems that way -- on Friday, I keynoted the Alberta Beef...
Understanding 21st century capital …. and why Sony doesn’t have it….
February 14, 2006, BY JimCarrollIn light of some recent criticism of criticism I've made of media companies, I thought it best...
Litigate, or create?
February 8, 2006, BY JimCarrollOne thing has become clear in the past few years: there is a huge amount of wasted creative...
Don’t repeat the mistakes of the music industry….
February 6, 2006, BY JimCarrollYet more coverage of my keynote for the Society of Cable Telecom Engineers in Tampa last...
Phil Gyford is one cool guy!
February 6, 2006, BY JimCarrollI've had this blog for a few years now, and have done most of the recoding of the MovableType...



















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