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Keynote : Packaging Machinery Manufacturing Institute - The Acceleration of Retail, Consumer Products and Packaging
A repeat performance! This organization first invited Jim to address their leadership conference in 2004 and invited him back in to open their 2021 event, 17 years later, with a…
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…
Daily Inspiration: “What was once fast is now exponential. If you aren't prepared for that reality, check your assumptions at the door to the future!”
“What was once fast is now exponential. If you aren't prepared for that reality, check your assumptions at the door to the future!” - Futurist Jim Carroll If the future belongs to…
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…
Daily Inspiration: “Your effort in ‘business model preservation’ to avoid ‘business model disruption’ will probably be the death of you!”
“Your effort in ‘business model preservation’ to avoid ‘business model disruption’ will probably be the death of you!” - Futurist Jim Carroll Back in the dot.com days, my…
Keynote: Rich Foods - The Future of Retail Post-Pandemic
The CEO of this global food services/food production invited Jim in to provide an opening keynote for their first leadership team in-person get-together post-Covid. Jim took a…
Checklist: Many organizations are structured for failure. Are you?
“Failure? It's an attitude that is often preceded by its actual occurrence” - Futurist Jim Carroll Have you ever noticed that you are surrounded by people who seem determined to…
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…
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