Insight Index – Page 11

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.

INNOVATION INSIGHTS

If you keeping doing the same old thing, you’ll
end up with the same old thing!

Daily Inspiration: “When everyone is thinking alike, do your own thinking!”

“When everyone is thinking alike, do your own thinking!” – Futurist Jim. Carroll Being unique is the basis of all innovation – because if you are doing what everyone else is doing, you aren’t innovating. You are copying. With that in mind, chase your uniqueness; thrive on your differences; celebrate your oddities. I’ve never liked […]

Video: Achieving Optimism – Learning from the Two Different Types of Farmers!

One of my favorite bits of insight I like to share from the stage concerns the story of the ‘two types of framers.’ Which one are you? Check the list below. And watch this short clip from one of my last in-person keynotes just before Covid. There’s what we might call the stuck-skeptics, who have […]

The BIG Future: Vertical Farming at Scale

One of the most fascinating trends unfolding in our future involves the world’s oldest profession. No – not that one. Agriculture! Imagine skyscrapers full of plants. That’s what begins to happen when the marriage of radical concepts, technology, and a pressing need for innovative thinking collide together to provide for a very BIG trend. One […]

KEYNOTE: The Acceleration of Artificial Intelligence and the Rise of the Robots – Promise and Peril in the Next Technological Transformation

The level of interest in my AI keynote presentation is nothing less than STAGGERING. I’ve never seen the world so captivated by a technology, so enamored by its opportunities, but also so worried about its potential impact. Organizations and associations are struggling to understand – what do we do now? I’m hitting a few groups […]

Daily Inspiration: “Don’t talk about what you’ll do tomorrow. Do it today.”

“Don’t talk about what you’ll do tomorrow. Do it today.” – Futurist Jim Carroll I’ve got an event later this morning with a company that is in the equipment leasing industry – they’ve brought me in give their team a sense as to how their future will unfold – and how they can ensure they can […]

Video on Innovation, Growth & Creativity – London, UK

How do you inspire 500 dentists from throughout the United Kingdom to adapt to the future, align with the future, and accelerate into what’s next? Through 10 Great Words – here are the closing moments from my keynote for Invisalign.

Daily Inspiration: “A BIG future demands BIG ideas based on a BIG imagination!”

“A BIG future demands BIG ideas based on a BIG imagination!” – Futurist Jim Carroll I released the next trend in my BIG Future: Long Term Trends Transforming our World series – The BIG Future: Brain Science and the Acceleration of Neurological Care. The third in the series (with many more to come over the next […]

The BIG Future: Brain Science and the Acceleration of Neurological Care

Just 10 years ago, I lost a very dear friend to the tragedy that is Alzheimer’s Disease. I am defined by the hope that we might see this, and many other neurological and nervous systems conditions vanquished in the years to come as the result of the acceleration of the science of the brain. That’s […]

Keynote Topics 2023: Growth, Innovation & Creativity, Megatrends, Leadership and Acceleration

I just sent out my February update to all my speaker bureau partners – I’m represented by most of the major ones in the world and opened with this. It’s self-explanatory. Suffice it to say, this is what clients are looking for today! As we head into 2023, it’s pretty apparent there is a lot […]

Daily Inspiration: “If we’ve learned anything (when it comes to encouraging creativity) it’s that we rarely do!”

“If we’ve learned anything (when it comes to encouraging creativity) it’s that we rarely do!” Every once in a while, for some reason or other, a page on my Web site takes off and gets shared around a lot. Sometimes, a BIG lot! At the end of last year, my list of ‘10 Great Words […]

Daily Inspiration: “A Futurist’s Framework: Follow your failures. Find your flaws. Fix your future!”

“A Futurist’s Framework: Follow your failures. Find your flaws. Fix your future!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Find the things that are wrong in order to make things right! Huh? Let’s say that “innovation” has become a keyword for your organization and your team. If that’s the case, where do you start? Maybe it isn’t with chasing […]

Video: The Reality of Disruption!

Here’s a clip from a keynote in which I talk to the reality of the change that every organization faces today: It’s all right there in the video clip – directly from my keynote: The impact of disruption is that everything you do forever changes – the products you develop, the services you deliver, the […]

Daily Inspiration: “Denial of your reality is not going to lead you to a better outcome!”

“Denial of your reality is not going to lead you to a better outcome!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Read this: “RIM continues to have strong technology, unique service capabilities and a large installed base of customers, and we are more determined than ever to capitalize on our strengths to overcome the recent execution challenges surrounding […]

Daily Inspiration: “If only the paranoid survive, it’s also true that it’s the chameleons who will thrive!”

“If only the paranoid survive, it’s also true that it’s the chameleons who will thrive!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Here’s a story about innovation and adaptability. To be a chameleon – to change with the circumstances, adapt, evolve, and reinvent. Back in 2008, Toshiba Australia invited me to open their annual technology conference in Sydney […]

The BIG Future: “Regenerative Medicine” and a New Era of Healthcare Science

We might live longer. We will see the reduction, elimination, or perhaps eradication of diseases. We’ll fix broken bones with lab-grown materials. We will grow human organs for transplant. And in that context, we will be doing stuff tomorrow that seems like the science fiction of yesterday – because it is already starting to happen […]

Daily Inspiration: “Think BIG. Your future will thank you for it.”

“Think BIG. Your future will thank you for it.” – Futurist Jim Carroll In times of volatility, people tend to become pessimistic about what’s next. But, the future doesn’t care – it marches on. The result is that we tend to see short-term trends but miss out on big long-term ones. We lose faith in […]

23 Trends for 2023: #22 Opportunity, Not Fads

2023: Not hot: cryptocurrency, the Metaverse, Web 3.0, NFT’s, and more Hot: Fusion! AI! Generative technologies. The issues of the future always revolve around the hype of what’s hot, what’s not, what to expect – with little regard for the practicality of the trend or the timing by which the future might unfold. Fusion? There […]

23 Trends for 2023: #20 The Rise of the Robots

They’re everywhere! Little robots scurrying about, doing the jobs that humans don’t want to do! Despite the widespread techno-skepticism which I identified in Trend #1 – Technoskpeticism and Retiming the Future, it’s pretty clear that many technologies are having their moment. Robotics is clearly one of the most relevant, which is why it’s trend #20 of my […]

Keynote Topic: “The Rise of the Robots, AI, Machine Intelligence & Other Disruptive Technologies Key Trends You Need to Understand for 2023”

This a message I just put out to my many speaker bureau partners worldwide. Futurists. Think of us as a tour guide to an increasingly complex, extremely fast future! That was the key message that this particular client wanted me to deliver – emphasizing it with a stage backdrop! And that’s what I do – and given […]

23 Trends for 2023 : #17 Non-immersive VR and AR

Part of the art of figuring out the future is knowing this – you’ll often find the real trend by looking beyond the hype to what’s actually happening! The hype? Virtual headset virtual reality, best epitomized by the bold but somewhat doomed bet by Mark Zuckerberg with his Meta initiative. The reality? The return of […]

23 Trends for 2023: #16 The Great Decoupling

Globalization as we know it is over -and with that, one of the most basic assumptions which have driven the post-World War 2 economy has come to an end. That’s why trend #16 of my “23 Trends for 2023” is The Great Decoupling – what happens as the assumptions behind the success of globalization are […]

23 Trends for 2023 : #15 Locking in Lessons Learned

Folks don’t want to talk about the pandemic anymore, but we should, for despite all the awful things that happened, and the massive divisions it has caused in society, one thing is clear: the way that organizations organize, learners learn, science sciences, and experts’ expertise, has forever changed. We learned a tremendous number of lessons […]

23 Trends for 2023 : #13 Peak Carbon

We all know the phrase – insanity is doing the same thing and over again and expecting a different result each time. It doesn’t happen. Neither does the mindset of clinging to old business models, out-of-date product ideas, irrelevant concepts, and reliance on yesterday’s strategy. In the context of that, it also includes the end […]

23 Trends for 2023: #11 The Massive Velocity of A.I.

There can’t be a bigger story in tech this year – other than the self-inflicted destruction of many aspects of the tech sector through hubris, arrogance, and fraud – than what has happened with AI. That’s why trend #11 of my ‘23 Trends for 2023‘ series is The Massive Velocity of A.I And it truly […]