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Chameleon's poised for success! Reinventing your revenue...
From my CAMagazine column.... ---- 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…
What happens when high school students are TOLD to text?
What happens when you ask 200 high school students to do EXACTLY what they've always been told to NEVER do -- take out their cellphones and start texting! You get some fascinating…
ISMPP
Jim Carroll opened the International Society for Medical Publication Professionals (ISMPP) 7th Annual Meeting on April 4, 2011, setting the tone for an event themed “Anticipating…
Remember those kids in school who were really good at math? They own the future!
What happens when the world goes "real time?" When we've got the capability to process vast amounts of information to see what is really going on, and we can make decisions based…
Innovation in the field of franchised operations...
In April, I'll be one of the keynote speakers for the Multi-Channel Franchising Conference in Las Vegas. Franchising.com recently caught up with me for an interview on some of the…
Why we ski....
"What I really feel is that, if on a pair of skis ... I forget everything but the joys of living..." Viscount Anthony Knebsworth, in a letter to his father, Earl of Lytton, 1924…
Headlines: The More Things Change, the More Things Stay The Same (sometimes)
"Most people overestimate the amount of change that will occur in two years and underestimate the change that will occur over ten years" - Bill Gates That's a phrase that I often…
Keynote Case Study: Lockheed Martin — Skills Agility Was Becoming a Strategic Capability
At Lockheed Martin’s Global HR Conference in Washington, D.C., I was asked to challenge senior human-resources leaders from across one of the world’s largest defense, aerospace…
Perfect microwave popcorn!
When do you think you'll be able to make perfect microwave popcorn? I'd thought I'd be able to do it by about now.... The problem with making popcorn in a microwave is that every…
Keynote: Lockheed Martin Global HR Conference, Washington DC – Skills Agility and the Future of the Workforce
Jim Carroll delivered the keynote address at Lockheed Martin’s 2011 Global HR Conference in Washington, DC, speaking to the company’s senior human resources leadership from across…
"Wacky Leaks: The Looming Confidentiality Crisis and Corporate Governance
Last year, I went back to school, investing time to graduate from the University of Toronto - Rotman Directors Education Program. This is part of my longer-term plan to provide my…
Understanding the velocity of innovation - take the "10 Things Test!"
One of my most recent blog posts reflected on the death of my fax machine, and how we now live in a period of time in which many devices can simply "disappear" from our lives as…
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