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From the Stage: Cardboard People and Plasma People
At a conference of the people who design in-store displays, I went to the cocktail party the night before. On one side of the room, a group was deep in conversation about trends…
From the Stage: The Dive-In Movie
One summer, with the kids running out of things to do, I set up an LCD projector and surround sound by the pool and we held a dive-in movie for the neighbourhood. I blogged about…
From the Stage: Upside-Down Innovation
When I spent time with Disney, they described how their old innovation model worked for a new movie: design the toys, plan the merchandising, then do the branding. Then they…
Innovating in the High Velocity Economy - The Acceleration of Retail!
Futurist Jim Carroll with an opening keynote for Revionics. This was just a few months before Covid - and Jim was outlining how the world of retail was already shifting to online…
The Acceleration of Retail : Looking Forward by Looking Back!
Here's a highlight clip from a keynote I gave at a major retail conference just six months before the global pandemic accelerated every single trend I was speaking about. Retail…
Video: Customer relationships have forever changed with Covid. Have you?
Here's a clip to get you thinking. This is from a custom virtual keynote production I prepared for a global insurance conference on behalf of my client, Salesforce. COVID-19 is…
Ask a Futurist - "What Does Consumer Behaviour Look Like Post Covid?"
I hit my broadcast studio yesterday to take on the top question of the week sent in via my Ask.A.Futurist series. Send in your question here, and if I select it, I'll take it on!…
Ask A Futurist - "What's Going to Happen with Globalization?"
I recently established a new video series to address some of the many questions that come to me over the course of the week. I take a look at the questions that arrive and choose…
Video: The Future of the Global Restaurant Industry in Our Post-Pandemic World : Great Virtual Starts with Deep Subject Matter Expertise!
A leading franchise organization had me in for a virtual keynote on what the restaurant industry looks like as we enter in our eventual post-pandemic world. I've cut out the…
Notable Keynotes : Lessons in Leadership for Your Post Pandemic Future - Godiva Chocolates, McVities & Ulker - "What's Your Tin Can?"
I've been running a video series from my virtual broadcast studio, with insight gleaned from over 25 years on stages around the world speaking to organizations about innovation…
Retail Transformation: A Massive Number of Disruptive Trends In Such a Short Time Span!
I spoke at the annual conference for key customers of Revionics, a company involved in the retail pricing strategy industry. During the intro, I spent a few moments to put into…
The Collapse of Attention Spans, and the Future of Packaging
Last week, I was the closing keynote speaker for an event for a group of companies that supply packaging materials and solutions to McDonald's in North America. I'll have a…
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