Insight Index - Futurist Keynote Speaker Jim Carroll: Disruptive Trend & Innovation Expert

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.

TRENDS INSIGHTS

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Trend: The Future of Energy

I’ve recently been the opening keynote speaker for two major energy events, with talks that focused on the future trends that will impact the energy industry, primarily from the perspective of energy utilities. The first was for Accenture’s International Utilities and Energy Conference held in San Francisco, with a global audience from over 35 countries. My […]

“Bold predictions for 2020”

Mashable just ran a post, “9 Bold Predictions for the Digital World of 2020“. I’m quoted in point 5 – Virtual Hospitals”. Here’s what I said: “By 2020, if not before, most industries – health care, agriculture, financial – will have found that they have been transformed by the velocity of Moore’s law. Mobility, wireless, […]

Healthcare 2020 : Moore’s law, Genomics and Velocity!

One of my recent talks featured me as the keynote speaker for Talent Strategies 2012 in New Orleans; the conference tagline was “Creating the Organization of the Future: Meeting Tomorrow’s Challenges Today.” I’ll blog more on my talk later – I do an extensive number of talks on the future of workforce, skills issues, and […]

From Disney to the PGA – Everyone is focused on innovation!

A short clip from a recent keynote in New Orleans – in which I outline how everyone is focused on innovation. This was at the Talent Strategies 2012 event, where I focused on human capital issues.

Rethinking Human Capital

I was in New Orleans two weeks ago, where I was a keynote speaker for Talent Strategies 2012. The working title of my keynote was “Talent Management 2020: What Comes Next?“, with this description being provided to program attendees. We live in an era of unprecedented, relentless change — a time of hyper-innovation, rapid skills […]

Trend: The Future of Healthcare in 20 seconds!

Nice, neat, concise two page summary that I put together in 2006,that puts in perspective what’s really going to happen with health care in the next few years. Spend 20 seconds to read it, and you’ll get everything that is going on right now. It’s a PDF – click it for the full file (2 […]

News media: “A futurist’s lookahead: JIm Carroll on key trends to watch”

The Globe & Mail had a nice summary of my 2012 future trends prediction blog. You can grab a copy of the PDF by clicking on the image to the right. Harvey Schacter, who summarized my original blog post, is a great guy! You might find it a good document to fire up into your […]

“I found the future in manure!” – Trends & the future of agriculture

I do a tremendous number of keynotes in the agricultural sector — from groups such as the Texas Cattlemen’s Association to the Mid-America Crop Protection Association to the US Farm Credit Co-op. As I note on my agriculture trends page, I “spent so much time customizing the presentation for one agricultural conference that at […]

Trending in 2012: What’s to Come in the Year to Come?

Here’s some of the key trends that I see unfolding through 2012 and beyond. My unique job allows me the opportunity to see and hear what a lot of CEO’s and senior executives in a lot of organizations are thinking about. The nature of my keynotes and small board / leadership meetings allows me to […]

Keynote Report: “The Paradox of Pessimism & Reality – Rethinking the Transformative Opportunities That Will Define Our Future”

A report from T. Rowe Price on my recent keynote for the 2011 Investment Symposium follows, where I was one of three keynote speakers (the other two being Colin Powell and Charlie Cook). You can find some blog links to each of the three key themes in the article at the end of the article […]

Major 10 year trend – The future of EVERY industry to now be controlled by Silicon Valley driven innovation!

At the T. Rowe Price 2011 Investment Symposium in Baltimore on Friday, I listened to the technology panel that preceded my luncheon keynote. It was a fascinating discussion as a number of their leading analysts spoke of the trends that they saw unfolding with consumer and other digital technology companies, such as Apple, Amazon and […]

Upside down health care – it’s January 1, 2020!

I’m on stage in New Orleans – it’s 730am, and 4,500 people have showed up for my keynote on Healthcare 2020: The session description used for the keynote: Today’s Trends – Tomorrow’s Opportunities Futurist Jim Carroll will give us a brief overview of the innovations affecting business and what they will mean to our economy […]

“The future is all about refrigerators…”

Earlier this month, I was down in Amarillo, Texas, where I was the opening keynote speaker for Day 2 of the annual conference of the Texas Cattlefeeders Association. The event was lined up as the result of another keynote I did in Sonoma County, California last April, where I spoke to a gathering that included […]

Remember those kids in school who were really good at math? They own the future!

What happens when the world goes “real time?” When we’ve got the capability to process vast amounts of information to see what is really going on, and we can make decisions based on what we see? We witness the birth of new billion dollar industries. Massive business model disruption. The rapid emergence of fascinating new […]

Headlines: The More Things Change, the More Things Stay The Same (sometimes)

“Most people overestimate the amount of change that will occur in two years and underestimate the change that will occur over ten years” – Bill Gates That’s a phrase that I often use when opening a keynote. When I’m on stage, about to blast into a high velocity 45 minute presentation that links fast-paced trends […]

Perfect microwave popcorn!

When do you think you’ll be able to make perfect microwave popcorn? I’d thought I’d be able to do it by about now…. The problem with making popcorn in a microwave is that every microwave has a different power output, so you can never do better than by carefully listening to the popping pattern to […]

Understanding the velocity of innovation – take the “10 Things Test!”

One of my most recent blog posts reflected on the death of my fax machine, and how we now live in a period of time in which many devices can simply “disappear” from our lives as they are replaced by new technologies, business models or concepts that we can’t even begin to imagine. This is […]

Moving beyond the healthcare debate : How we’ll really transform the system!

It’s an interesting time in the US. The healthcare reform debate continues; the future is uncertain. Health care groups everywhere and those impacted by the bill are spending a huge amount of time thinking about the implications of the bill, and the role of innovation. In my own case, I’ve been doing and am scheduled […]

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 […]

How small is your world? Why thinking BIG could save you in the 21st century economy!

We are in the era of big thinking, yet a lot of people have a small outlook. Consider what leading edge innovation organizations are doing today; they’re prepared to: make big transformations: I’m dealing with several organizations who realize that structured operational activities that are based on a centuries old style of thinking no longer […]

Zorbing and the big global idea machine!

I’ve got a new Web traffic monitoring tool – Re-Energize — which is quite wonderful! And every day, when I look at how people are finding my site, it’s become quite obvious that a lot of traffic comes in for people looking for information on the sport of ‘zorbing.’ Why do they find my site? […]

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 […]

Video: What do world class innovators do?

Each year, Deloitte South Africa presents their annual “Best Companies to Work For In South Africa” survey, and coincident with that, they honour companies that show the best talent management practices. The companies are selected through a diligent process ; the entire event is built around the theme of world class HR and talent management […]

When Silicon Valley Takes Over Your Innovation Agenda!

What happens when Silicon Valley takes over the innovation agenda within an industry? In this video clip from a recent keynote, Jim challenges his audience to think about what happens in the world of banking, particularly with the likely fast paced emergence of contact-less payment technology based on mobile devices. Innovative organizations need to make […]