Trend: Short, sharp shocks of strategic insight
I was in Baltimore last week, where I was the opening keynote speaker for the 2010 Passkey Corporate Housing Forum. Passkey is a company that provides software for the…
Associations · Growth Strategy
The case for optimism & global economic recovery
I was in Billings, Montana last week, speaking at the annual meeting of a financial group. The audience included a large cross section of business executives from…
Energy & Utilities · Growth Strategy
Trend: Switching from cutting back, to focusing on growth
In a whirlwind of activity over the last ten days, I've been the keynote speaker for conferences that probably represents the vast majority of global Fortune 1000…
Growth Strategy · Industries
Global innovation for growth : through long term transformation
Futurist Jim Carroll, at CRIM 2010, outlines how global CEO's are positioning their organizations for growth, through a focus on long term transformative trends. As the…
Growth Strategy · Videos
The return of growth
My mantra about innovation is that it is always about three questions: how do you run the business better, grow the business, and transform the business. Address those…
Growth Strategy · Leadership
Innovators always focus on growth!
Leading in turbulent times! That's a topic you need to focus on in the high velocity economy - particularly as volatility rages around you. And leading means focusing on…
Growth Strategy · Innovation
Finding growth with knowledge exponentiation
I've been doing a tremendous number of small, intimate CEO level leadership meetings; I'll work with the CEO or other senior management team member to pull together a…
Growth Strategy · How to be Innovative
"How is the recession changing the way we do business?"
Here's a quick quote from a year end article that ran in Computer Dealer News: CDN: How is the recession changing the way we do business? Jim Carroll: "There's a…
Growth Strategy · Leadership in Crisis
"How cool is that?" "Let's focus on growth!"
My news tracker picked up this small interview that appeared in Food Processing Magazine a few months ago. In a tough economy like this, it's time to hold the line on…
Growth Strategy
Innovation and the concept of "chameleon revenue"
I am not alone in thinking we're in the midst of a significant economic transformation. As Mick Fleming, president of the American Chamber of Commerce Executives, said…
Faster - The Acceleration Economy · Growth Strategy
Regions that rock: and how quickly Dubai lost it's image!
Back in the spring, when the entire world was caught up in the midst of global economic doom, I had a long conversation with a Dubai-based journalist. He was seeking my…
Growth Strategy
The importance of innovation in the era of the "new normal"
The CEO of the American Chamber of Commerce recently caught the essence of the state of our "new normal", when he observed that we're in the midst of "this move from a…
Growth Strategy · Innovation