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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.

INNOVATION INSIGHTS

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

How to battle organizational sclerosis!

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 their have failure engrained 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 […]

What’s hot? Search phrases for Nov 29, 2010

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 […]

What the heck are you waiting for?

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 […]

How to fail at innovation – form an “innovation team!”

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 […]

Trending: 10 Major Trends to Start Thinking About Now!

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 […]

Bold beats old, fast beats big, and other key issues

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 […]

Innovation? Think like a farmer!

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. […]

Video on innovation – take risks!

A quick little video hit on innovation from Las Vegas. If you want to innovate, you must take risks!

Product lifecycle 2.0 and the era of instant obsolescence

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 […]

Why innovation thrives in the building of sandcastles

I’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 […]

Video: The collapse (and end?) of product life-cycles

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 […]

The 10 Most Important Innovation-Themed Rock Documentaries of All Time!

With all the keynotes I do, I spend a huge amount of time on airplanes — and often end up going through a lot of video. As of late, I’ve seen a number of rock documentaries, and was struck by some of the unique innovation stories in these films. And so I’ve put this list […]