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JIM’S INSIGHTS

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INNOVATION INSIGHTS

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

What’s your tin can?

Have you been to your local grocery store as of late? Have you seen the StarKist Tuna plastic re-sealable pouch? That little package – a new product innovation if there ever was one – is responsible for almost $200 million in new revenue since it first hit the shelves. That’s not displaced revenue, but entirely […]

10 surefire ways to destroy innovative thinking

With all the upcoming leadership events and keynotes that I have on my schedule, I’m on a pretty constant stream of planning conference calls. As I dig into the culture and attitude of a client through interviews with the CEO and other team members, I’m always mystified to find that some organizations just seem to […]

Innovation: Think big, start small, scale fast!

A key innovation message that I spend time with my clients focusing upon involves the concept of “thinking big, starting small, and scaling fast.” (With all due respect, the thought process comes from a customer-service oriented strategy at McDonald’s many years ago, but it is easily extended to encompass innovation in general.) It’s such an […]

The Innovation Killers

A great little video clip from a recent keynote that outlines the challenges you face if you try and be an innovator! You can find some useful information on dealing with innovation under the Innovation Inspiration section of my site, and through the Innovation tag.

Innovators always focus on growth!

Leading in turbulent times! That’s a topic you need to focus on in the high velocity economy – particularly as volatility rages around you. And leading means focusing on growth: pursuing opportunities that will materialize over the longer term, rather than just managing short term trends. That’s the focus of my “Where’s the Growth” document, […]

Report on my keynote for the Illinois Governor Tourism Congress

Here’s a blog post that ran over at the Chicago Hospitality Insider blog with a report on my keynote last week.” —- Moving Beyond The Meltdown” with Jim Carroll Posted on February 18th, 2010 by Jody Robbins How is the tourism business impacted by a world where information is passed feverishly around the globe? Immediately and […]

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 […]