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Manufacturing & Industrial · 2017
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The Story Behind the Picture: 20 Big Rules for Economic Development in the Era of Acceleration!
You know you are doing something right when an organization brings you back for the 3rd time! The International Asset Management Council is an organization relentlessly focused on…
Article: The Fabricator - "A look into the future of manufacturing"
Another article on a recent keynote I did on the future of manufacturing; in this case, from The Fabricator, the publication for the Fabricators and Manufacturers Association. A…
Keynote Case Study: IAMC — Bold Decisions Build The Next Economic Wave
IAMC brought futurist Jim Carroll to its Fall 2017 gathering in Richmond, Virginia to challenge corporate real-estate and industrial leaders to align facilities and portfolio…
Keynote: , International Asset Management Council, Richmond, Virginia - Economic development trends and the future of manufacturing
The International Asset Management Council is an organization relentlessly focused on economic trends, and represent two distinct groups – economic development representatives…
Article: Futurist Says "Fast & Furious" Changes Coming to Manufacturing
The folks at New Equipment Digest interviewed me a few weeks back for an article on manufacturing, ahead of a major keynote I had earlier this month. It's but one talk I do in…
Keynote Case Study: CMTS: The Future of Manufacturing Was Arriving Faster Than Expected.
Opening CMTS 2017 in Toronto, I challenged Canadian manufacturers to recognize the speed of Industry 4.0. My message emphasized robotics, the digital factory, 3D printing, rapid…
Daily Inspiration: "Inaction is not a good excuse for failure!"
“Inaction is not a good excuse for failure!” Futurist Jim Carroll Today I open the Canadian Manufacturing Technology Show, the largest such event in Canada. It’s a perilous time…
Keynote: Canadian Manufacturing and Technology Show, Toronto, Canada - End of Runway Manufacturing, 3D Printing and the End of Inventory
This is the biggest manufacturing conference in Canada, organized by SME (previously, the Society of Manufacturing Engineers). This is the 4th time SME has had me headline an…
Daily Inspiration: "There’s a huge opportunity for North American manufacturing to reinvent itself to compete in the world economy....."
“There’s a huge opportunity for North American manufacturing to reinvent itself to compete in the world economy. We’re not going to do it by building walls and wishing that the…
Keynote: Quintiq World Tour 2017, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Managing Complexity in the Era of Acceleration
This is a company that builds a software platform that helps companies to manage complex supply chains and workforces, and my keynote focused on why the need for ‘managing…
Article: The Future of Manufacturing is in Acceleration!
Companies that don't yet exist, will build products that are not yet conceived, based on ideas not yet invented, with manufacturing methodologies that have not yet been conceived…
Article: "In the New World of 21st Century Manufacturing: Are You George Jetson or Fred Flintstone?"
The folks at the Precision Metalforming Association were putting together their 75th anniversary issue of Metalforming magazine, and wanted to share with their readers that it's…
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