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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!

Disruption : It’s Not a Widget Anymore – Realiging Your Sales Force to New Value Propositions

Futurist Jim Carroll with a clip from a keynote for Philips Medical Devices – with the basic message that the product they are selling is no longer a single, standalone product. Instead, it’s become a hyper-connected, highly intelligent medical device, leading them into selling a service based on some sort of AI medical thing. It’s […]

Can You Reinvent Your Revenue at the Speed that Apple Does?

In this clip, I’m on stage at the Big M Manufacturing Conference in Detroit, with a keynote on trends impacting the global manufacturing industry. In this clip, I’m speaking to the issue of ‘revenue reinvention’ – how a world of rapid production innovation, faster product obsolescence, and collapsing product lifecycles are leading to a reality […]

The Future Belongs to the Fast – Aligning Innovation and Creativity to Speed!

Futurist Jim Carroll on a massive stage with an audience of thousands – speaking to the issue of the speed of change. Are you ready for what’s next?

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

It’s time to get your future on! In the era of acceleration, when everything is speeding up, it’s difficult to imagine where we might be in 10 years.

Video: The Era of Acceleration – The Impact of Disruption

Disruption is real, it’s big, and it’s happening faster than you think. Individually, any trend is disruptive. Combine them together, and it’s transformative. Legacy is death: agility and speed are the new metrics for success. No one company can do everything that needs to be done in an era of fast change. I speak at […]

Trend: What’s the Impact of the Era of Knowledge Acceleration? None of Us Have the Capability to Know Much of Anything at All!

My Daily Inspiration had me looking today at the issue of the future of knowledge – give today’s post a read. While preparing my post, I borrowed from this post I put together way back in 2012. Reading it again, it’s worthwhile sharing again, because it is absolutely bang-on in terms of its predictive value. […]

Deconstructing the ‘Metaverse’ – A Strategic Pathway for Separating Hype from Reality!

Back in 2007, I had an avatar and spent some time exploring the virtual world known as SecondLife. If you’ve been around for a while, you might remember it – it was supposed to be the next big thing! Except, it wasn’t. There are a lot of next big things in our world, and right […]

Revisiting the Global Supply Chain Volatility Issue – What’s Next?

I do a lot of interviews around various future trends and innovation issues; often, these are for very niche-oriented publications or corporate publications and newsletters. I was recently contacted by a company in the supply chain sector with a series of questions; rather than typing out my response, I thought IU would just hit the […]

Instant, Faster Obsolescence : The Impact on Your Products, Your Brand, and Your Sales Opportunities!

This was my daily post today – and it’s probably important to put some additional context on it. So I decided to hit my virtual broadcast studio to film a short show about what the trend towards faster product obsolescence and faster innovation really means. Give it a watch – and look for my 1982 […]

The Disruption and Reinvention of the Insurance Industry – It’s Not Business As Usual Anymore!

Over the years, I’ve become a widely recognized industry expert – in multiple different industries! Most of my keynotes for the last fifteen years have been for global Fortune 1000 companies – corporate offsites led by a CEO or other CxO. How broad is my expertise? I just sent a list to a potential client […]

Your Future is Faster – So Too is Disruption!

The future used to belong to those who are fast – it now belongs to those who are faster! That was the premise of a recent virtual keynote I delivered from my virtual broadcast studio. Here’s a peak! Intrigued? Learn more at https://virtual.jimcarroll.com and https://disruption.jimcarroll.com

Back on Stage – Back to the Future!

I’ll be on stage in just under 3 hours, speaking to 400 dentists about the future of their industry and the acceleration of healthcare. It’s great to be back after almost a two-year hiatus, interrupted briefly by two events in November – just before Omicron hit. Here’s a playlist as to why getting back to […]

An Interview on VUCA – volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity!

VUCA – volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity! That’s your big reality. Here’s why you need to think about how you manage complexity – with a look back at a Q&A I did with a company that specializes in managing complexity. Beneath the surface of normalcy lies a hidden layer of complexity. A few years back, I was […]

Video Playlist: Aligning to Disruptive Trends

Are you ready for what’s next? Here’s some useful insight!

Accelerating the Acceleration Gap: The Ultimate Impact of Our Post-Pandemic World

I hesitate to use the phrase ‘post-pandemic’ because we really don’t know when that actual trend might unfold … but with that in mind, how has the business world changed as a result of the last 2 years? What can we expect on ‘the other side?’ In a recent in-person keynote for the Packaging Machinery […]

Timing is Everything: Jim Carroll’s 5 Rules on Aligning to the Future!

Here’s a big issue to wrap your head around – increasingly, your opportunity for future success will come from your ability to get the timing right! That issue has been the focus of an increasing number of my keynotes as of late: a recent one in the construction sector a company that manages large scale […]

Ask a Futurist – The Future of Transportation (“The Lost Basement Tapes!”)

The folks at UPM – a global leader within the wood and lumber industry – interviewed me for an article they put together, Industrial Revolution 5.0 – driven by sustainability. It’s a great overview of the many trends shaping our world today. It’s a good read, and I was pleased to take a role. They […]

The Leadership Lessons of the Pandemic – We Are Now Forever Defined By Resilience, Speed, Adaptability, Agility!

Your business will never be the same! Not your business model, structure, skills base, or any assumptions about your future. Everything has forever changed, and if you don’t study the powerful lessons that leaders have adapted, you’ll fall behind. Check this clip from a recent keynote I gave for a senior leadership meeting of Siemens […]

10 Things That Are True About the Future (It’s fast, it’s everywhere, and you are likely already out of date!)

Clearly the rate of change – whether with business models, product life-cycles, skills and knowledge – is speeding up. With such change, there’s a lot of uncertainty within many industries as to what to do next: a senior executive of one client commented to me from his perspective, “…entities are engaged in survival tactics because […]

Headlines: The Great Resignation? There’s Nothing New Here – The Trend was Already Well Underway in 2003 (And Earlier!)

The great resignation is all over the news – but there is really nothing new here, as lifestyle decisions, skills specialization, and the nomadic workforce come to define the future of work. I hit the virtual broadcast studio the other day and filmed an entire ‘Headlines‘ video to put into perspective what it is really all […]

‘101 Things We Know About Our Future’ – An Esoteric List of Things That are Happening Now and Next!

My mind all too often races with ideas; I think too much. The busy activities in my head lead me to regularly scribble down lots of thoughts about the world around me. Overall, as a futurist, it’s a remarkable time to be alive – and with that in mind, here’s a list that I’ve accumulated […]

22 Trends. 22 Minutes. 22 Opportunities for 2022 : A Virtual Leadership Kickstart for 2022!

I just shared this update with my many speaker bureau partners. It might provide some food for thought for you too! Good morning! It seems that just while we were looking at 2022 with a wary eye of optimism, the sudden arrival of Omicron can pull us back in to, well, non-optimism! Our industry and […]

Kicking Off 2022 with Virtual Insight into What Comes Next – And What to Do About it!

It’s always fun to hit the finish line into another year as many organizations start to line up their team and members with concise insight into the future. I’ve got a number of these lined up, that I’ll be providing from my virtual broadcast studio. One of these will be on December 6 for the […]

“Workback Pushback” – When The Media Catches Up To Trends You’ve Already Covered!

So the New York Times ran an article about the fact that people are showing reluctance to go back to work. I predicted this in a video I filmed last May about some of the major trends we might anticipate going forward. As we start to enter the next, new phase of our post-pandemic world, […]