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Outsourcing transitions from cost savings to strategic necessity

My latest CAMagazine column is out ; in it, I focus on the role that financial executives...

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Banking and furniture industries — coping at high velocity!

It's been a busy week, with keynotes for the American Community Bankers Association and the...

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Where is the insight?

There are quite a few people out there who talk about innovation, all of whom have a very...

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Health care industry keynotes

A bit of a backgrounder on my work in the health care sector/ Partial client list Waters...

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Messing with bits of business strategy ….

When you are on stage, you're mind is working at light speed, as you synthesize your knowledge...

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10 Long Term Trends of Real Substance

The level of hype right now with "social networking" and technology is getting a bit out of hand....

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10 Truths about the Future

In my keynotes, I often talk about how the rate of change -- whether with business models,...

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Video – innovation and education

Some weeks ago, I spoke at the University of Oklahoma, on the role of innovation in...

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High velocity retail innovation

Back in October 2005, I identified the major trends that would sweep the retail and consumer...

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Article: Innovators look beyond the horizon

CAPITAL Magazine in Dubai has run my article, "Tomorrow is the New Today." The article is...

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The Future of Risk: Achieving Skills Agility in the High Velocity Economy

Back to work, and I'm off to San Antonio, Texas, to keynote the Property and Casualty Insurers...

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Innovation? Do things you’ve never done before!

Several people who have read this blog for a long time have commented that I seem to be a bit...

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Minds of their own

One of my regular columns focused this month on the issue of "hyperconnectivity." Quite...

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Corporate banking at high velocity

I spoke last week at a senior level banking conference; in attendance were C and VP level...

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Fast to innovate. Fast to build. Fast to market.

Though I spend my time travelling the world with my innovation message, it's nice to find some...

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What’s happening with our workforce?

Last week, there was a common theme to my keynotes for the University of Oklahoma and for the...

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CNBC : The Business of Innovation

The air date for the five part CNBC series, "The Business of Innovation," hosted by Maria...

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Innovation and the future of education

What's happening with our worforce? That is increasingly the focus of many of my recent...

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Instilling innovation with the “trends and innovation feedback loop”

In the world of high-velocity change, how could you go about actually keeping on top of all the...

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Velocity, Agility, Complexity, and Flexibility……

I'm doing a private conference call today with more than a hundred executives in the life...

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Fidelity Bank (Cayman): Competing in the Global Economy

Jim opened a conference of leading financial, banking and investment professionals, at an...

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What happens when light stops?

Well, for one thing, when light stops, velocity picks up! A few weeks ago, I keynoted a crowd...

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Are you watching the major transformations, or just the piddly stuff?

I spoke in November in Iowa to a group of energy cooperatives, providing some different...

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Innovation and insight in manufacturing

"Do you want to be focusing on the problems of the past, or do you want to outfit your...

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CNBC – The Business of Innovation

The week before last, I taped an appearance with CNBC on an upcoming prime time five part...

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High velocity customers!

I gave the opening keynote this week, in Orlando, for BICSI, a telecommunications trade group;...

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“Flexibility defining careers, workplace”

An article on my perspectives on the future of the career has run in a wide variety of papers...

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The future of skiing

Right straight from 85F+ temperatures on the beach in Grand Cayman, to 0F on the shores of...

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The Globalization of Financial Services in the High Velocity Economy

I'm now in Grand Cayman, one of the top five financial centers in the world, where I'll be...

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Talent, not money, is the new corporate battlefront

Here's a trend to think about : Companies will soon be accessing needed skills from all...

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10 Great Words

A few years ago, I wrote my listing of "10 great words" that could help to spur an organization...

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Innovation comes from flexibility, extensibility, agility…

In the high velocity economy, you've got to be able to design for a future in which all assumptions...

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Why “bandwagon innovation” doesn’t work

I don't know how many recent news stories I've seen about "social networking," and the "Web...

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Jump on board for 2007!

Innovation and the future are at the top of mind for a wide ranging group of associations...

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Why high-velocity makes innovation THE word for 2007 ….

Here's a reality that you need to think about: 2007 is the year in which almost every...

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2007 and beyond: Understanding the velocity of change

It's that time of year when everyone is taking stock of the future -- what's going to happen...

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Generational change and the future of health care

I woke up this morning with a pretty big sty on my eye; I could feel it coming on last night. Big,...

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How to be innovative – with the Six C’s of Innovation

Over the years, I've come to realize that part of the fuel that fires my passion for my work...

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For innovative organizations, tomorrow is the new today

With all the organizations I've studied, I've long realized that innovation comes naturally to...

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Brand confusion in the global world

One fascinating aspect of the new world in which we find ourselves is that some companies have...

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