Insight Index

JIM’S INSIGHTS

Futurist 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.

TRENDS INSIGHTS

What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You!

Fitbits for Cows, Drone Technology, and the Fact that the Future of Just About Everything is All About Batteries!

Here’s a clip to get you thinking! It’s from a talk I gave for a global Siemens energy summit. I’m telling the story about how the fact that we have ‘fitbits for cows’ is one of the trends that is leading to the acceleration of battery technology via drones – which impacts automotive, energy, and […]

The Future: If You Look Back at Today from 2030, What Will You See?

One of the challenges with the global pandemic is that so many companies were essentially involved in triage – fighting tooth and nail every day to align to sudden new business realities – that many forgot about the vast, disruptive change sweeping their industry. Two years ago to the day today, I was on stage […]

Innovation Isn’t What You Think It Is – Here’s What You Need to Know!

The following article was published in AkzoNoble’s “A” Magazine, featuring some of my thoughts on innovation in organizations. The organization is the largest global paints and coatings company and is a leading producer of specialty chemicals. The article is a good read as to how I think and work. It was distributed in print form […]

The Disruptive Trends that Define Your REALLY BIG Future. But Are You Thinking too Small?

Individually, any trend is disruptive. Combine them together, and it’s transformative. When everything connects, power disperses. Legacy is death: agility and speed are the new metrics for success. These are some of the mantras that should define your future. Disruption is real, it’s big, and it’s happening faster than you think. The trends that define […]

Trend : Workback Pushback – What happens when People DON’T Want to Go Back to the Office?

As we start to enter the next, new phase of our post-pandemic world, what happens when people don’t want to back to the office? What happens with those who like their new space? Expect this question to dominate the world of HR, future trends, leadership, and all kinds of other topic areas in the months and […]

The Dark Underside of a Usually Optimistic Future: How Bad Could Things Get? Pretty Bad!

I bill myself as an “Optimistic Futurist.” My running joke when walking out on stage was – and is – “I can’t tell you that your future sucks, because then I wouldn’t get many repeat bookings.” But all kidding aside, I try to force myself each and every day into a positive frame of mind […]

Video : Understanding the Impact of the Acceleration Gap!

Are you structured for slow in a fast world? The global pandemic has changed the axis of our universe. What was disruptive before is now massively transformative. Do you have a strategy to keep up? Are you dealing with the reality of the acceleration gap? I hit the virtual studio to explain your challenge. History […]

The Era of Acceleration? It Just Got Faster!

Here’s a clip where I’m on stage a few years back, at an event where the CEO and his team are fine-tuning strategies and plans for the coming year. I’m there to set the context for the next several days with a talk about the future. They’re big in the global tech industry, manufacturing a wide […]

Video: The Future is Going to Happen Faster Than You Think!

On this day, in 2018. And if you think about it, the future was pretty slow back then. In the olden days, pre-Covid, before the world accelerated, and the Acceleration Gap became your biggest challenge going forward!

Keynotes I’ve Delivered: And the 101 Ideas on Disruptive Thinking, Innovation Acceleration and Your Next Future That They Provide

So – someone asked me if I delivered canned insight. LOL. I’ll just give you this playlist to start. And then, let me share what I really do. I decided to start listing a few clients with a short overview of the unique keynote titles or topic spin that formed the basis for my keynote […]

KEYNOTE: Bridging the Acceleration Gap Achieving Growth By Aligning to The Post-Pandemic Future

KEYNOTE: Bridging the Acceleration Gap: Achieving Growth By Aligning to The Post-Pandemic Future The global pandemic has changed the axis of our universe. What was disruptive before is now massively transformative. Do you have a strategy to keep up? Pre-pandemic, CEOs and organizations were dealing with a world of business model disruption, the acceleration of technology, the […]

Unlock Creativity. Drive Innovation. Achieve Growth!

Simply put, as we slowly emerge from Covid-19, we are entering a new and more complex economy. You thought you had time to prepare for a faster future – and then the explosive acceleration of all trends happened. Now what? I’ll show you the way!