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It's Veteran's Day in the US, and Remembrance Day in Canada.Every year as November 11...

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Update: The Google Car

The nice thing about being a futurist is that you're right -- much of the time!Back in 2002 or...

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10 Rules for Working at Home

In the area where I live, the school system has an annual "take your kid to work day" for Grade...

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High velocity trends in the pharmaceutical industry

I'm here in Las Vegas today, about to provide the opening keynote for Pharmalink 2007.This...

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Innovating at high-velocity

A recent client asked for some background on some of the events I've been doing through the...

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10 Reasons why innovation matters for small business

 Small business organizations often think that "innovation" is some deep, mysterious...

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Speakers 2.0 – The Evolution of the Speaking Industry

The business of speaking has evolved dramatically in the last five years -- have you...

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New article: Don’t mess with my powder, dude!

Earlier this year, I wrote the Foreword for the book, The Rise of the Project Workforce:...

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New book release: Ready, Set, Done: How To Innovate When Faster is the New Fast

My new book, Ready, Set, Done: How To Innovate When Faster is the New Fast, is now available...

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Future trends – Of groundhogs, criminals and hackers

One of my recent, regular columns for a financial publication, managed to link together the...

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Major trend – the future of the organization

Take a look at this kid.He's your next employee. How are you going to recruit, retain, manage,...

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“He prowled the stage like a preacher”

An interesting article in InformationWeek, covering my Sunday night keynote for the Society...

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The disappearance of change management?

I'm off today to Montreal, to keynote the 2007 International Financial Leaders Forum. This is...

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Quality, skills and the high-velocity economy

Back in May, I keynoted the World Congress on Quality / American Society for Quality, a fairly...

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With all due respect to Web 2.0, what’s really important at a strategic level?

In the last few weeks, I've had several high-level sessions with the CEO and management team...

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Groundhogs, innovation, and the end of summer

I'm back at work, although when you work at home, you never truly leave it.There were two...

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Ready, Set, Done: Jim Carroll’s latest book

We've got a cover, and have the first draft of my newest book in for design/edit.Titled...

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Ready, set, DONE!

Just about thirty seconds ago, I finished off the final chapter of my next book. We'll fire up...

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Faster is the new fast: innovating for the new, high velocity customer

In the fast paced world of instant obsolsolescence and rapid innovation, time-to-market is becoming...

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Innovation in the global energy industry

I spent a half day last week with the CEO and senior management team of a large global energy...

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What do innovative companies do that other companies don’t do?

Innovative organizations focus upon the concept of agility: they can manage fast change, new...

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The future of the legal profession

Some weeks back, I spent a full day with about 40 senior lawyers with a major government agency,...

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Trends and big transformative changes. Example: health care

The view of the future by most is often short term oriented. What happens when you think about long...

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Innovation – agility is critical

I often talk on stage to my clients about the concept of organizational agility: that is, the...

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“Don’t Mess with my Powder, Dude: Managing People and Projects in The Flat World”

Tenrox, a company that provides companies an intgelligent infrastructure for rapid workforce...

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Innovating in the high velocity economy

What does it mean to function in the high velocity economy?It's all about learning to operate...

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The new mourning …..

In the last year, I have been the keynote speaker for three different conferences of funeral...

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Innovation and the new workforce

I'm keynoting the annual IHRIM (International Human Resource Information Management)...

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Innovating in the era of instant obsolescence

We're in the era of instant obsolescence: can you innovate fast enough to keep up? Can you...

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Innovation, and the big “what-if’s?”

I've long posted this challenge to my clients: can your organization deal with the rapidity of...

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Hyperconnectivity — 1998 and on…

You can read the original blog post Hyperconnectivity? Innovation at Nortel? Invent what's...

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Hyperconnectivity? Innovation at Nortel? Invent what’s already invented!

Gosh, I just wish Nortel would wake up one day. They haven't yet. Their much hyped new...

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Rethinking quality in the high-velocity economy

It's been a whirldwind two weeks, with keynotes in Orlando x 2, Boca Raton, Vancouver, and a...

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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 listWaters...

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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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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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