Jim Carroll delivered a keynote at RDA Food & Entertaining’s ‘Setting the Table’ Consumer Food Symposium on September 24, 2008, in New York City. The event brought…
Consumer & Food · Event Highlights
I'm in Manhattan tomorrow, speaking at an event for food, advertising and packaging companies on behalf of Readers Digest Food & Entertaining Division. I'll be offering…
Consumer & Food · Keynotes & Events
We're witnessing hyper-innovation with packaging, design, in-store promotion, new product introductions, rapid change with branding, and perhaps most important, a…
Consumer & Food · Retail & Consumer
I just returned from a keynote for the Direct Seller Association; the industry dedicated to selling products to individuals in their homes. One might think in the…
Branding & Marketing · Consumer & Food
The media is all abuzz with the concept of "user oriented innovation," and that is certainly an important innovation trend. But it's not the only trend. Innovators would…
Consumer & Food · Innovation
I spent the day yesterday with management executives and store owners of DoItBest, one of the largest US hardware retailers. It's a fascinating organization, because in…
Consumer & Food · Growth Strategy
Can you innovate across the generations? If you can't -- then you've got a big problem to fix! I do a tremendous number of keynotes that focus on the issue of "managing…
Change · Consumer & Food
In the fast paced world of instant obsolsolescence and rapid innovation, time-to-market is becoming a key factor for success. This is a video clip from a recent keynote…
Branding & Marketing · Consumer & Food
Back in October 2005, I identified the major trends that would sweep the retail and consumer products industries, and some of the key innovation methods that…
Consumer & Food · Faster - The Acceleration Economy
"A brand today can go from hero to zero in a matter of months...." As the news media gears up for the release of the Sony Playstation 3, one wonders whether they are…
Branding & Marketing · Consumer & Food
Wow! Where did May go? I had keynotes for a huge number of different companies and associations, ranging from appraisers to broadcasters to motor vehicle dealers…
Branding & Marketing · Consumer & Food
According to the Washington Post, some 33,679 new products were introduced into the consumer products sector in 2004, up 53% from 10 years earlier. Since the typical…
Consumer & Food · Innovation
