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.
If you keeping doing the same old thing, you’ll
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Many people don’t know how to think big — how to envision bold news ideas. In this clip from Las Vegas, Jim talks on stage in Las Vegas at a major manufacturing conference, about he challenged an auto company to think bigger by thinking about Google as a potential competitor. He uses this as opportunity to […]
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A few days ago, the Smart Blog on Leadership wrote a blog post covering my recent keynote at the IMXchange manufacturing conference in Las Vegas. It drew quite a bit of attention on Twitter, particularly the vein having to do with my concept of what holds back a lot of innovation efforts. Some of the […]
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The “10 Great Words” page on my Web site is one of the most consistently visited and shared pages on my entire site. I think that people find the words to be powerful and inspirational, and help to set a good mindset for innovative thinking. Words are very powerful motivators. I was dealing with a […]
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The following article was just published in July 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 […]
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Here’s a video clip from my opening keynote for the 94th Annual General Meeting of the PGA of America, in which I talk about the necessity of “thinking big, starting small, and scaling fast,” and of the importance of the concept of experiential capital as a foundation for innovation. I’ve written and spoken about the […]
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Here’s an adaptation of my May CAMagazine article, which was titled “From Bombs to Beauty” in the print edition. ——- March was an interesting month for me. One day I was in Dayton, Ohio, opening the annual leadership meeting for the US Air Force Research Laboratory. In the room were senior military officers, scientists and […]
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In April, I’ll be one of the keynote speakers for the Multi-Channel Franchising Conference in Las Vegas. Franchising.com recently caught up with me for an interview on some of the issues that I’ll be focusing upon. Here’s the interview! ———– Jim Carroll loves to predict where the world is going. As such, he has become […]
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Two years ago, I was the opening keynote speaker for the 14th Annual Portfolio Management for New Products & Services Conference in Fort Lauderdale, an event sponsored by the Product Development and Management Association. In the blog entry I wrote at the time (The Hollowing Out of Big Corporate R&D), I noted that “I spoke […]
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Is your organization getting a tad stale? Try rejuvenating staff by prescribing a dose of newfound creativity – through some innovation oxygen! When my good friend Scott Kress summited Mount Everest two years ago, he used a little bit of oxygen for the final push. Many climbers do — sometimes you need the extra energy […]
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Often, one of the best ways to discover ideas for doing things differently — of fuelling your innovation engine — can come from studying other organizations or industries that are excelling at dealing with fast market, business model, competitive and technological change. There are many organizations out there who aren’t innovative and are stuck in […]
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A clip from my keynote for the PGA, challenging the audience to think about innovation in a different way. Innovation isn’t just about the invention of new products and services — it’s also about focusing as a leader on how to “run the business better, grow the business, and transform the business!” As you can […]
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This is from my January 2011 CAMagazine column. The article was based upon a blog post by Asymco in October of 2010, and includes some commentary from a previous blog post I made on fast changing product life-cycles. When Apple reported results last fall that blew past analyst expectations, there was a lot of talk […]
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Let’s say that “innovation” has become a key word for your organization and your team. If that’s the case, where do you start? Start out with the mindset that there’s a lot of opportunity to do things differently, if you think about innovation as the “fixing of problems.” Innovation need not be strictly the development […]
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A few years ago, when I was the closing speaker for the Swiss Innovation Forum in Zurich, I made the observation that many “organizations fail because they have failure ingrained in their corporate culture!” Do you? It can be difficult to try to be innovative in many organizations. Many people with an innovation-oriented mindset often […]
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A few weeks ago, I set up the Reinvigorate.Net “simple, real time web analytics & heatmaps” service on my Website. It took but seconds to do so — I had to create my account (signing up for a year) and add a WordPress plugin. Within minutes, I had all kinds of cool data flowing in […]
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When you are on stage in front of several hundred people, you’ve got to be prepared to be interactive and open to insight. That’s why I regularly use a text message polling tool on stage — I can quickly get a sense of what people in the room are thinking about. Here’s the results from […]
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A quick little video from a keynote in which I outline what organizations often do — with good intentions that go horribly wrong. Think about what happens — suddenly, a message is established that only ‘special people’ on the ‘special team’ are responsible for innovation. Here’s what I wrote in What I Learned From Frogs […]
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What are the major trends that will shape our world in the future? Here’s what you need to be thinking about now! How SMALL is your world? Are you thinking BIG enough in terms of just how many big trends are going to impact your future? Many people ask me how I spend my […]
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It was a busy September, with keynotes and leadership events for the likes of PPG, the Utah League of Cities and Towns, St. Joseph’s Health Center, Transcontinental Media, the Ohio League of Bankers, the Illinois League of Financial Institutions, the Minnesota Hospital Association CEO Summit, Allied Solutions and many other events. A common theme for […]
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Welcome to the folks from FarmSecure – Great to see you here! Over the last fifteen years as a futurist and innovation expert, I’ve spoken to a tremendous number of agricultural groups. This has often included large groups of farmers, attending an event where I’ve been asked to speak at a community economic development event. […]
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A quick little video hit on innovation from Las Vegas. If you want to innovate, you must take risks!
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This graph represents the model of product life cycles as taught in business schools for the last, oh, I don’t know, 100 years? Companies would innovate, and introduce a new product. If it succeeded, they would experience growth. At some point, sales would peak. The product would then tend to become obsolete or overtaken by […]
Read MoreI’m now into a bit of a slow stretch for some summer; postings here will be slow for a time. Years ago, inspired by similar times, I wrote about how innovation thrives in the building of sandcastles. It was a great post — and it made it into BusinessWeek. I thought it a fitting post […]
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At the recent Consumer Electronics Association CEO summit in Ojai, CA, I focused on how social networks are coming to have a huge impact on brand perception. But aside from that main thread, I also concentrated on my message of innovation in an era in which “faster is the new fast.” Here’s an older clip that […]
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