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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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“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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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? […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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It’s big, and its’ getting bigger! That’s the location intelligence industry, which is resulting from the rapid dominance of location-aware mobile devices, the rapid emergence of massive sources of spatial (geographic oriented information, i.e. Google Maps), the rapid user adoption of location-based applications (i.e. iPhone Apps), and a significant amount of innovative thinking as to […]
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In a whirlwind of activity over the last ten days, I’ve been the keynote speaker for conferences that probably represents the vast majority of global Fortune 1000 organizations, speaking to the trends that will impact the future of ‘corporate facilities.’ These have included keynotes for the Professional Retail Store Maintenance Association annual conference in Orlando; […]
Read MoreRight straight from 85F+ temperatures on the beach in Grand Cayman, to 0F on the shores of Georgian Bay — it was time to get back on the ski hills! Over the weekend, I found that an interview I had with a newspaper reporter in Colorodo, on the future of skiing, has run in an […]
Read MoreI’m in New Orleans, looking out from my room on the 18th floor down the river … getting ready for my keynote to the Corporate Housing Providers Assocation. Later this week, I speak to teachers with the Calgary School Board, and then a group of hardwood companies. Next week, a conference on travel and trends […]
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