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The future of sporting goods in a world of high velocity….

I'm off today to give the dinner keynote for the Sporting Goods Manucturers Association Sports and...

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Your customers are high-velocity? Are you?

Does your organization have the right stuff to deal with todays' information-empowered, globally...

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“….the concept of nine-to-five will have just absolutely disappeared….”

At this point, I've been working at home for close to eighteen years. When you've been doing...

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Can you run your business at video-game intensity?

Video game business intensity is coming to all industries. This provides some important food for...

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Healthcare and medical trends

Get ready for bio-connectivity, skills wars, knowledge obsolesence and bio-informatics, not to...

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Can you deal with velocity?

The future belongs to those who are fast - that's the reality of velocity! Watch this clip with Jim...

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Four Sources For Trends And Ideas …..

It seems BusinessWeek has noticed my comments on trends, the future, and innovation. They've...

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Next big home entertainment trend? Dive-in Movies!

We're still having a bit of a stretch of warm weather, and tonight promises to be great. With...

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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

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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 October This 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 area Partial 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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