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Disruption & Acceleration · 2009
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Key trends and insight from 2009
I'll be shutting down through the next several weeks from today; I'll still be picking up email, but my blog posts will slow down till the New Year. I'll mostly be hacking away at…
High Velocity Change & Increasing Business Intensity
A huge number of global organiztions have me in to challenge their team to think about how to deal with the increasing speed of change in the world of business. Here's a clip from…
Article: "Anticipating the Future"
The feedback on my Salt Lake City keynote for the National Recreation and Parks Association continues; earlier in this story, I had a blog entry from a message from someone at the…
Article - "The Future Belongs to Those Who Are Fast"
Expectation gaps create tremendous opportunity Chronicle Herald, November 2009 By Kelly Hennessey, ABC There are two ways your community can look at the rapid-fire pace of change…
Innovation and the concept of "chameleon revenue"
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 Commerce Executives, said recently…
Location Intelligence and the Future of Recreation!
Here I am speaking to an audience of 4,000 at the National Recreation and Parks Association Congress in Salt Lake City - a keynote in which I challenge recreation professionals to…
The Future: Opportunity or Threat?
Here's a short video clip about the fast future, and a challenge as to how you think about the future. Which camp are you in?
World Health Care Innovation and Technology Congress, Washington, DC - The Future of Health Care
Held in Washington, DC, it’s one of the world’s most prestigious health care events. Jim spoke about the long term trends that will provide for transformative change in the world…
Are we thinking fast enough?
Back in 2006, I keynoted the Society of Cable Telecom Engineers at their annual conference in Tampa. At the time, YouTube was only just beginning to have an impact, and social…
Trend: The emergence of the Chief Momentum Officer
One of my key themes through the years has been that "faster is the new fast" -- that the biggest challenge that organizations must face is how to keep up with the high-velocity…
The Impact of Social Networking on Brands
There are 147 million people interacting on social networks through mobile devices today - expect that to grow to 1 billion within 5 years. A clip from a recent keynote in which I…
Accountancy in the Twitter era
One of the columns I write on a regular basis is for CAMagazine, which goes to about 100,000 professional chartered accountants. My big secret? Despite the fact that I spend my…
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