
AI For Leadership Teams – Achieving Strategic Clarity
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Read MoreFuturist Jim Carroll has quickly become recognized as your ‘go-to source’ for effective insight on what comes next, the strategies that you consider, and the leadership path you need to follow.
What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You!
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Read More“Spend more time learning stuff that you know you might never understand.” – Futurist Jim Carroll Follow the edges. That’s always been my advice to many organizations that are trying to understand the future. It’s out on the edges – beyond the traditional world of R&D and discovery – that much of the future is […]
Read More“Great leaders encourage people to waste more time on uncertain projects with unknown goals that have unsure payback and indeterminate timelines. (Because they know it works.)” – Futurist Jim Carroll You probably know the traditional story about serendipitous innovation – that in the world of science, it’s the accidental discovery, the unplanned moment, the sudden […]
Read MoreMindshare matters. In a complex and fast competitive landscape, positioning your product or service offerings to your customer or client has become more of a challenge than ever before. That’s why organizations continue to invest in large-scale or intimate customer-client events. It’s an opportunity to tell your story, position your products, outline your value proposition, […]
Read More“If you are surrounded by transformative trends that are so big, why do you continue to think so small?” – Futurist Jim Carroll Every once in a while, a conversation with a client reminds me of the scope fo the transformative change that is in front of us – and that’s odd since I’m in […]
Read MoreActually, we’re not, but you will be. You need to hire a VP of Artificial Intelligence Risk Management. I defined all the job responsibilities here.
Read More“At what point will you realize you’ve wasted time preparing for an economic downturn that never happened?” – Futurist Jim Carroll Have you noticed that the media has now shifted from ‘all-recession all the time’ to ‘oops-we-got-the-recession-prediction-wrong?’ Over on Yahoo News, there was a comment to that effect last March: There’s a recession-industrial complex in […]
Read More“At some moment in time, you will come to realize that the future you thought had no longer exists!” – Futurist Jim Carroll If you aren’t thinking ‘big’ enough, you future might be what you think it is. At some point in time, if it has not yet happened, you’ll come to realize that the […]
Read More“Hyperconnected trends result in hyperconnected opportunities!” – Futurist Jim Carroll If you are trying to figure out the impact and opportunities of AI, the promise and the potential, the peril and the risk, you need to go “beyond ChatGPT.” And to do that, you need to understand that in many industries, AI is bringing together […]
Read MoreLet’s talk about robots! Because if you are at all involved in the world of manufacturing and are thinking about AI, that’s where your head really needs to be. That’s the subtle undertone of my interview over at the ABB “Factories of the Future – The Robot Podcast” which you can listen to and download […]
Read MorePrior to the arrival of large language models (LLMs) as seen with technologies like ChatGPT, the use of AI within the world of energy, particularly energy utilities and the electrical grid was defined by the massive data sets derived from the connectivity of the grid; the acceleration of renewables and grid technology that required the […]
Read More“You’ll never get to the future if you never attempt the future! “– Futurist Jim Carroll If you are into that type of thing you might have tuned into Apple’s WWDC event yesterday to get a first look at their new VR/AR headset – or, what they are calling their new spatial computing device. And […]
Read MoreI just had an article published in Oil and Gas News – the largest and most widely read publication on the energy industry in the Middle East. Published out of Dubai, the publication is a must-read of all things energy-related in the region. Currently paywalled, but it will become available over time. Intelligent, connected smart energy […]
Read MoreI stumbled across a really interesting post over at Futurizon, the site of a fellow futurist – who compiled a list of the information that various futurists feed into the AI machine. You can read it here. Dr. Pearson comments: Thanks to Washington Post, we now know how the C4 dataset was made up, one […]
Read More“Never lose sight of all the other opportunities while you are caught in the glare of the big shiny object!” – Futurist Jim Carroll AI dominates the world of healthcare and every other industry – and people are suddenly forgetting about all the other trends which are reshaping our future. When that happens, people tend […]
Read MoreOver my 30-year career, I’ve built relationships with some of the most respected speaker bureaus in the world. The result is that the same agents who represent me also book various global icons, politicians, and business leaders into corporate and association events – such as Barack and Michelle Obama, George Bush, Magic Johnson, Anderson Cooper, […]
Read MoreThe team AAE Speakers Bureau just published my article, “The Acceleration of Artificial Intelligence: A New Look at Our Disruptive Future“. In it, I take a look at just two of the many issues emerging with AI – in this case, the acceleration of all knowledge, and the issue of what I call the Hype-Opportunity […]
Read More“It’s not the motivation that matters – it’s what you do with it that counts!” – Futurist Jim Carroll It’s a holiday Monday here in Canada – and so I’ll keep today’s post short, concise, and to the point! As I often say, the message from a motivational speaker can be like Chinese food – […]
Read MoreMost organizations are going to need a senior vice president of artificial intelligence risk management within a year. That’s because the risk AI is going to introduce to your organization is going to be even bigger than you can imagine. The position, reporting to the Board of Directors, will be responsible for: monitoring, assessing, and […]
Read MoreAnother new highlight reel – this one on what I bring into organizations. The voice is AI.
Read MoreThe future of AI? It’s not just about ChatGPT. It’s the AI Megatrends. Those are even bigger. You need to watch this. You can’t afford to fall behind. Then call me.
Read More“You can’t manufacture intelligence, but with some intelligence, you can manufacture tomorrow!” – Futurist Jim Carroll As AI envelopes the world in 2023, everyone is enamored, stunned, fascinated, and overwhelmed by what they can do with tools like ChatGPT and the entire software ecosystem that is exploding around it. There is certainly a lot going […]
Read MoreToday, an AI interviewed me about .. artificial intelligence. We talk about strategy, what CEOs are thinking about, why I launched my new jimcarroll.ai Website, the AI Megatrends series I am writing and so much more!
Read MoreMy friends over at the Washington Speakers Bureau just published my article on the future of legal risk and the increasing complexity of the law as a result of accelerating AI. I want you to hit their Web site right now to read it. It’s always such a thrill when these folks book me into […]
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