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Setting the table: rapid consumer trends in the food industry

We're witnessing hyper-innovation with packaging, design, in-store promotion, new product...

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Keynote: Financial management and high velocity healthcare

I provided the opening keynote yesterday for over 275 CFO's of the Ontario Hospital...

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A truly staggering, transformative trend yet to unfold

It's been announced that I will be a keynote speaker at the World HealthCare Innovation &...

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High velocity globalization – massive markets, major trends

I'm hitting the ground running this week, with an opening keynote presentation for a global...

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Is there a future for associations?

Association Magazine has published my article, Metamorphosis: A Defining Success Factor for...

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Innovation — in the most wonderful places

Well, I'm back from summer holidays, and the keynote in Australia was a particular bit of fun....

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National Australia Bank, Sydney, Australia: Innovation Strategies for Financial Advisors & Financial Organizations

A keynote that looked at the key trends and opportunities in the areas of personal financial...

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Toshiba, Sydney Australia: Mobile Technology and Business Disruption

This keynote for 500+ senior executives in Sydney, Australia, looked at innovation trends in...

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Why innovation thrives in the building of sandcastles

I'm off to keynote an event in Sydney, Australia; and after that, two weeks of family time in...

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Faster is the new fast — also in auto

One of the key tenets of my book, Ready, Set, Done -- How to Innovate When Faster is the New...

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Soccer moms, text messaging, and the inevitability of virtuality

A few weeks ago, I arrived in my hotel room, and connected back to my home office via Skype. I...

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Starbuck’s Icarus moment …..

I'm quoted in a Reuters article that has run in the Washington Post, Globe and Mail, and the...

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Get Fest-ed! Adding some life to your annual conference or event….

I've had a new article published for Association Executives for the CSAE, about how you can...

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Pearson PLC: The Future of Media

This keynote for the leadership meeting for the world’s largest publisher in New York,...

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Extreme skills: what happens when knowledge runs out?

I'm in Vancouver, about to deliver a keynote to a global professional services firm, with the...

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Is there hope for manufacturing? You bet!

I'm in Milwaukee today, speaking at a private group of manufacturers from across the country,...

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Computational analytics is another new plastic!

At my keynote to the US Association of Actuaries this week, and for a keynote to LOMA last week (an...

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Transitioning the global economy

There are a zillion fast, zippy cool trends out there. And then, there are the big, sweeping,...

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Who’s hot? Actuaries are hot!

I just came back from delivering the opening keynote for the annual meeting of the US...

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Text message polling – on stage with instant interactivity and feedback

Over the last several months, I've been incorporating some live text message polling into my...

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After flat? Rethink strategies and go post-flat!

As some economies continue to experience rounds of volatility, there are still plenty trying...

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Financial industry innovation – change the game!

Here's something to think about: we are going to see $12 to $18 trillion in intergenerational...

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Branding, marketing, and manufacturing 2.0

From a variety of keynotes through the last few weeks, here's what we've got to deal with. The...

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Seven Things I’d Do Right now

There were two pretty heavy-duty keynotes I did for companies in the financial sector last...

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A new era of “social wealth management?” Innovating banking at high speed!

I'm about to head out the door to keynote a leadership team, business analysts and IT staff...

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Innovating in the era of the celebrity baby blog!

I just returned from a keynote for the Direct Seller Association; the industry dedicated to...

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Recent keynote titles

Jim Carroll has been on stage for 20 years, and has spoken to hundreds of thousands of...

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Can we talk — upside down innovation?

The media is all abuzz with the concept of "user oriented innovation," and that is certainly...

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Zorbing — and why it’s in to be out!

Seems USA Today ran an article about zorbing, and my web site is being flooded with traffic because...

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The Secret for Association Executive Success: Study Air Guitar!

My blog post of a few weeks ago caught the attention of the folks at the Canadian Society of...

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“65% of the kids in preschool today will work in jobs or careers that don’t yet exist”

Whether I've got an audience of 3,000 people in Vegas, or a small CEO-level meeting of 20 people, I...

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Innovation on the “fast” track – what do you do when it’s faster still?

My June is shaping up to be a tremendously busy month. Based on the bookings that are in, it's...

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Jim Carroll keynoting Toshiba Global Exchange 2008 in Sydney, Australia

It's been confirmed that I'll be the opening keynote speaker for this large scale annual...

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Five more trends to define your future

My "infrastructure is the new plastic" post drew attention; at a keynote last week, I was...

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Bio-connectivity and the rapid emergence of new markets

In a keynote to a health care industry conference last week, I emphasized that in the high...

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Infrastructure is the new plastic

In my "Where's the growth?" trends overview written a few months back, I noted that one of the...

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If I ran your company, here’s what I would do!

Supertramp -- a band from the 80's -- had a minor hit with the song "On the Long Way Home,"...

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Led Zeppelin Leadership: How do you innovate when you’re dazed and confused ….

At a particular keynote last week, I met a number of senior executives who certainly agreed...

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Leadership insight: study air guitar!

My blog posting ten days ago (a "Memo to the CEO") stirred up quite a bit of interest and...

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Branding in the high velocity economy

Last week, I gave the opening keynote for a leading global auto collision repair group, Fix...

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THE FUTURE BELONGS TO THOSE WHO ARE FAST features the best of the insight from Jim Carroll’s blog, in which he
covers issues related to creativity, innovation and future trends.

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