Keynote: HP Mexico, Miami – Key Customer CIO Summit
May 27, 2015, BY ChristaHP Mexico brought customers of key client companies to Miami for a CIO Summit. The overall agenda...
Keynote: Honeywell, Baltimore – How Skills Acceleration Defines the Future of Talent Management
May 19, 2015, BY ChristaOver the years, I've been invited in to speak to the HR departments of many organizations. In this...
Keynote: Patterson Veterinary, Dallas, Texas: The Future of Veterinary Medicine
May 13, 2015, BY JimCarrollThe acceleration of medical science, new diagnostic technology, advanced medical procedures, and...
Trend Report: The Future of Trucks – Connected, Proactive and Data Driven
May 11, 2015, BY JimCarroll[caption id="attachment_13639" align="alignright" width="300"] My son and I in front of one of...
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: 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: Volvo & Mac 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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
“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...
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...
25 Trends for 2025 (Can you imagine how different your future might be ten years from now?)
December 28, 2014, BY JimCarrollThis post was written in 2014 - and now, in 2025, it's trending! As you read it, keep in mind...
Freddie Mac
December 17, 2014, BY JimCarrollWhen you are in the news for all the wrong reasons - in this case, the hangover from the global...
Speed and agility in the retail sector
December 8, 2014, BY JimCarrollThe rate of change in the retail sector is going from 'fast to furious' if you pardon the cliche....
Augmented Reality and the World of Retail…
December 2, 2014, BY JimCarrollEarlier this year, I was featured in the UK's Retail NewsAgent 125th anniversary publication,...
Trend Report: The Future of Autonomous Vehicle Technology
December 1, 2014, BY JimCarrollThere can't be a more exciting industry in the world today than what is happening with the...
Nomadic workers and the future of careers
December 1, 2014, BY JimCarrollHere's a video clip from a recent keynote -- during the Q&A, I was asked by one member of the...
Are you suffering from ‘Aggressive Indecision?’
November 24, 2014, BY JimCarrollHere's one from the vaults -- from a keynote for SAP way back in 2003! [wonderplugin_video...
Keynote: Colorado Department of Transportation, Denver – The Future of Transportation
November 20, 2014, BY JimCarrollSelf-driving cars, electric vehicles, the future of intelligent highways and smart infrastructure....
A really cool keynote summary!
November 7, 2014, BY JimCarrollEarlier this week, I was a keynote speaker at HealthAchieve 2014, one of the largest healthcare...










































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