Insight Index – Page 20

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!

10 Enemies of Innovation!

I had a conference call with a client yesterday with respect to an upcoming leadership meeting; I’ll be helping the organization think about some of the barriers they have towards innovation, and what they need to do to overcome these challenges. As we were talking, I scribbled down a short list of some of the […]

Innovating in the era of the global idea machine – and the concept of “Just-in-time Knowledge”

If you want to known why you need to speed up your organization, spend a bit more time staring at an iPhone — or for that matter, any Apple device that you might happen to have in your home or office. Think about the fact that Apple now masters such a torrid pace of product […]

Video: The Masters in Business Imagination!

A clip from a recent keynote in San Antonio, Texas — shouldn’t you be thinking about getting a Masters in Business Imagination? I first proposed the concept of the MBI back in 2003, when I wrote the Masters in Business Imagination Manifesto. Here’s the intro: Complacency in a time of rapid, disruptive change can be […]

The Google Car, 3D Printing & Big Bold Ideas!

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 […]

Avoiding innovation paralysis caused by “aggressive indecision”….

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 […]

10 More Great Words for Innovation!

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 […]

Article : “What’s your vision of the future?”

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 […]

“We’re going to think big, start small, and scale fast” – Experiential capital and the PGA

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 […]

From bombs to beauty: the ubiquity of innovation!

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 […]

Innovation in the field of franchised operations…

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 […]

Revisiting the Hollowing Out of Global R&D Trends

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 […]

Time for a little innovation oxygen! Everyone needs to inhale deeply…..

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 […]