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JIM’S INSIGHTS

COVID-19 has transformed business forever.
Futurist Jim Carroll has quickly become recognized as your ‘go-to source’ for effective insight on what comes next, the strategies that yto 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!

What do world class innovators do that others don’t do?

I was in Chicago earlier this week; I had a keynote for the leadership team of a company that’s involved in a sector of the construction industry. They’ve had some challenges with the economic downturn; they’re also likely to see a resurgence as infrastructure spending kicks in. But they’re thinking beyond what happens after that […]

10 Phrases to Think About for 2010

The chance that your company, markets, competitors will be the same in ten years is virtually zero – so what do you do about that? Here’s 10 phrases I often use to challenge my clients — often CEO’s of large, multinational organizations — to think differently about our fast paced future: experiential capital: it’s the […]

Innovators focus on “corporate agility’

How quickly can you scale if you encounter a new market opportunity? How quickly can you react to a crisis. In this clip, Jim takes a look at the concept of corporate agility

Innovators aren’t afraid to ask tough questions!

In fact, the realities are that not only are innovative people unafraid to ask questions, they aren’t afraid to: ask the tough questions act on the answers to those tough questions! ask questions that make people uncomfortable challenge others to ask tough questions ask why it has become acceptable to not ask questions! ask questions […]

Cardboard people, plasma people: Generational change and innovation!

How do you master innovation? Through the powerful story in this video clip, I point out the challenges that organizations face with the different generations in the workplace — and introduce the concept of “generational collaborative capability” as being a key component of succcesful innovation.

How to get faster when the world is faster…

What should innovative organizations do? When everything is faster still, focus on these things: build up experiential capital – think big, start small, scale fast. The experiential projects are the “start small” part of the equation. Know what you don’t know, and set out to learn those things master collaboration and share: the world is […]

Is it time for an innovation audit?

Is it time for an innovation audit within your organization? Maybe so! After all, with rapid business model change, competitive disruption, fast paced technological developments, rapid and new branding challenges, customer churn, social networks and all kinds of other challenges! Right now, you need to make sure that you have an organization that is open to new […]

Silicon Valley innovation velocity set to dominate every industry

My January / February CA Magazine article is out; entitled “Stranger than Science Fiction,” it examines a major theme that has been part of many of my keynotes throughout 2009: what happens to your industry when the pace of innovation is no longer set within the industry itself, but rather, is set by the blistering […]

Key trends and insight from 2009

I’ll be shutting down through the next several weeks from today; I’ll still be picking up email, but my blog posts will slow down till the New Year. I’ll mostly be hacking away at improving my pathetic abilities as a skier. (Actually, I’m not that bad….) It certainly was an extraordinary year; I spoke at […]

Innovation and the concept of “chameleon revenue”

I am not alone in thinking we’re in the midst of a significant economic transformation. As Mick Fleming, president of the American Chamber of Commerce Executives, said recently, “It’s going to be a move from a bad economy to the next economy.” What is the shape of the next economy? In many cases, it will […]

The importance of innovation in the era of the “new normal”

The CEO of the American Chamber of Commerce recently caught the essence of the state of our “new normal“, when he observed that we’re in the midst of “this move from a really bad economy, to the next economy.” What is the shape of that next economy? While we can’t be certain as to the […]

Failing at the future: 10 reasons why some companies will miss out on the economic upturn!

Just over a year ago, the global economy changed. What has it changed to? When I keynoted the Missouri Governor Economic Development conference in St. Louis two weeks ago, I offered this quote from the American Chamber of Commerce: “It’s going to be this move from a bad economy, to the next economy.” What is […]