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
end up with the same old thing!
I don’t know how many recent news stories I’ve seen about “social networking,” and the “Web 2.0 revolution!”, but it’s getting pretty tiresome. It seems that everyone is now ready to get involved with these “trends,” to build a new business, transform themselves, provide for deeper customer contact, or to achieve some other greater glory. […]
Read MoreHere’s a reality that you need to think about: 2007 is the year in which almost every organization and individual will begin to focus all their energies on innovation. As someone who spends a lot of time helping some of the world’s largest organizations adapt to and understand the new high-velocity economy, I’ve long realized […]
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2020 Update! – How Has Santa Managed Covid? An Interview with Santa: ‘Reinventing Your Reality: Stories from the Studio On Personal Growth and the Future’ It’s likely a good time to put into perspective the critical lessons we can learn from someone who is a true master of leadership, insight, creativity and innovation. None other than the […]
Read MoreOver the years, I’ve come to realize that part of the fuel that fires my passion for my work is my intense curiosity. I’ve also come to realize that thinking differently has become critical to my success. So it is with you; in a time in which business models, markets, customers, industries and clients are […]
Read MoreWith all the organizations I’ve studied, I’ve long realized that innovation comes naturally to those organizations who are focused on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the challenges of today. By building a culture that is relentlessly turned to that reality, they easily succeed in doing things differently. And in doing so, they’re the true […]
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“A brand today can go from hero to zero in a matter of months….” As the news media gears up for the release of the Sony Playstation 3, one wonders whether they are capturing an increasingly important aspect of the story: has Sony managed to keep any of the brand luster that it once had, […]
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At the Swiss Innovation Forum in Zurich, I took a look at the real impact of globalization — the new consumer, market commoditization, rapid emergence of new business models, shortened product lifecycles….. That’s why innovation is critical : organizations today are in a situation in which everything around them is fluid, constantly changing and evolving. […]
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At the Swiss Innovation Forum in Zurich, I took a look at the attitudes, ideas and cultures which always manage to stifle — and kill — any hope for innovation within an organization. Key point? “Organizations fail, because their have failure engrained in their corporate culture!” This clip is based on an article I wrote […]
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Yesterday I gave the opening keynote for the annual manufacturers meeting of the Hearth, Patio and Barbecue Association. Most of the folks in attendance were CEO’s and senior management with a wide variety of companies, and they were keen for insight into what they should be doing beyond knowing that the world is flat. There […]
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There are two types of people in the world — those who view the future with fear, worry and concern — and the rest of the people who look at the future as an opportunity. The latter group are the innovators; the former group will do everything they can do dismiss the idea of doing […]
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“When we have this global competition where everyone is competing on price, the only way out of that hell is to up the value of your brand” — Jim Carroll, Snowboard Trade Magazine, November 2006 “Entities are engaged in survival tactics because they don’t know what to do next” — Jim Carroll When I started […]
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I’m off today to give the dinner keynote for the Sporting Goods Manucturers Association Sports and Technology Convergence Conference in San Diego. When it comes to the future of sporting goods, it’s all being the fact that the future is being redefined by the next generation. As I observed in an SGMA newsletter: “…these kids […]
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Does your organization have the right stuff to deal with todays’ information-empowered, globally collaborative, we-know-better-than-you-do customer? Maybe not. Imagine that you are a big company. Imagine that you roll out a new piece of software that was supposed to make things better for your customers. Imagine that it doesn’t do that — worse yet, a […]
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Video game business intensity is coming to all industries. This provides some important food for thought — can you run your business at the high degree of intensity that occurs within the high-tech gaming (not gambling) industry? Remember — the key words today are rapid time to market, agility, and execution. One of the most […]
Read MoreGet ready for bio-connectivity, skills wars, knowledge obsolesence and bio-informatics, not to forget healthcare stores. Those are just of the few trends I’ve been covering in some recent health care keynotes, both within the health care, medical, pharmaceutical and insurance industries. I find that a lot of people simply don’t understand the massive depth of […]
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The future belongs to those who are fast – that’s the reality of velocity! Watch this clip with Jim Carroll on stage speaking to thousands on stage in Las Vegas…. I regularly advise some of the largest organizations on the world on strategies that can help them to innovate in a fast paced future. And […]
Read MoreIt seems BusinessWeek has noticed my comments on trends, the future, and innovation. They’ve posted my blog as one of four sites to check out for insight into trends and ideas…. Welcome! If you are looking for the sandcastle blog item mentioned in the magazine, it’s here. If you are looking to start at the […]
Read MoreThere’s been a lot of talk about the skills crisis lately. Most of it is focused on the wrong thing — people seem most worried by the fact that a lot of baby boomers are set to retire, and are taking their skills out of the economy. That’s a big issue, but that’s not the […]
Read MoreWe’re in big time summer slowdown here now for quite a few weeks ….. yet you can never stop thinking about how to ensure that creativity and innovation can continue to blossom. With that line of thinking,. here’s my list of “10 Reasons Why Innovation Thrives in the Building of Sandcastles: and What We Can […]
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There are a few news stories today about Tesla Motors, which includes numerous hi-tech executives, involved in an effort to build a new electric car. Let’s just call it the Google Car. I’ve been predicting this type of massive market shift since sometime in 2004; there’s a video clip from January 2006 in which I […]
Read MoreI’ve just returned from Vail after doing a keynote and workshop for the American Nursery and Landscape Association. As the session description for the afternoon workshop commented: “Your mind is spinning from the morning’s trends discussion. Now it’s time to turn those trends and challenges into a tangible business opportunity! After 100 years, StarKist finally […]
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A journalist recently asked me about the future of snowboarding; there’s a lot going on with “sticks and planks” as people have come to call them. snowboards and skis will continue to gain intelligence. Rapid advances in on-board chip technology, combined witih insight into kinesiology, will see a lot more on-board motion analysis as well […]
Read MoreThere have been dozens of keynotes through the last few months. All kinds of industries; executives; professionals; markets; challenges. There’s a lot of change going on out there, and the brutal reality is that some get it — and a lot do not. Each and every keynote has involved a lot of research, plenty of […]
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In a recent presentation and Profit article, I focused on how organizations and leaders must incorporate four key capabilities: agility, insight, innovation, and execution. The corporate agility concept is perhaps the most critical: organizations must presume that the rate of change today is so fast that product lifecycles are collapsing, business models are relentlessly shifting, […]
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