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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.

Two Types of Farmers: What We Can Learn from the World’s Oldest Profession!

Caught your attention, didn’t I, and you obviously want to point something out to me! But now that I have your attention, think about the honorable profession of farming — it’s been around almost since the beginning of time. And it’s a profession that has involved a lot of trial and error; failure and success; […]

Keynote: Camstar Systems, Orlando – Agility in Manufacturing

A software company, now owned by Siemens, that specializes in software for managing quality, execution, logistics and organization of complex manufacturing processes. They invited me in to open their annual users group meeting, with an overview of the big sweeping changes providing both challenge and opportunity into the future – shorter product lifecycles, the end […]

Keynote: Brownlee Hyatt Farber Schreck, Las Vegas – The Future of the Legal Profession

What’s the future of the legal profession? What happens in the era of knowledge acceleration, the emergence of new unforeseen legal risk, and the unique business challenges that come with advanced technology and trends? That was the focus of my keynote to open the annual partners meeting for 500 lawyers for one of the largest […]

Keynote: Chubb Insurance, Phoenix, Arizona – The Disruption of the Insurance Industry

Real time insurance policies with risk underwritten based on hyper-connected data. Actuarial assumptions based on looking forward rather than looking back. The acceleration of new forms of insurance risk. The return of disintermediation and challenges to existing broker networks. The potential for Amazon and others to massive disrupt existing business models. I covered these issues […]

Article: “The Power of One” — From “Think and Grow Rich”

I’m covered in the January / February issue of an Australian publication, Think and Grow Rich. It’s oriented toward franchise operations. Enjoy! The Power of One from Think and Growth Rich January/February 2014 Despite a small slump in figures during the Global Financial Crisis, franchising has come out of the mire relatively unscathed and in […]

The Miracle that is Greece….

A week ago, I had the delightful opportunity of being the closing keynote speaker for a global conference of family wealth managers that was held at a resort outside Athens. It was a pretty fascinating group …. Needless to say, I don’t take on too many international keynotes; the travel can be gruelling, and to […]

Video: Innovative organizations aren’t afraid of thinking big – they’re afraid of thinking too small!

Here’s a new clip — I’m challenging the audience to move away from a tactical role to a strategic role, as part of their focus on innovation — and to confront the innovation killers that can cause organizational sclerosis! Part way through, you’ll notice I do a live text message poll to get my audience thinking about […]

Challenge, Response and Interaction: Keynotes with a Difference!

As my audiences become ever more engaged with their mobile devices, I’ve learned that I must continually step up my game and ensure that they remain engaged with me! Attention spans in society are collapsing, and we who own and do our job on stage must ensure that we keep those attention spans on the […]

Video: Innovation and organizational sclerosis

Is your organizational clogged up in its ability to try new ideas, because it is suffering from organizational sclerosis?

Trends: What’s Next for the Insurance Industry (interview)

I’m doing a lot of insurance keynotes lately, in all sectors — property and casualty, life, employee benefit plans. It’s catching some attention. The folks at ACORD, (Association for Cooperative Operations Research and Development), a global, nonprofit organization serving the insurance and related industries, reached out to me during the summer for a quick interview on some […]

The “tinkering economy,” global growth and why the Mark 2 Hovercraft matters!

I’m often writing and speaking about real trends that matter. Not fads, or social-media driven hot-Youtube videos. Real, substantive trends which will provide for long term transformation of industries and skills. Business model disruption. The rapid emergence of new competitors. Stuff like that. Back in 2012, in my end of year post, “Trending in 2012: […]

My keynote @ NASA Goddard Space Center

(This is a long post. Trust me, it’s worth it, with lots of fascinating photos from magazines in the 1920’s and 1930’s. Credit needs to be given to my wife Christa and son Willie for doing all the scanning and Photoshop work that went on behind the scenes to make this work; it’s not easy […]

Hell, yes, I’m motivational!

I have a very odd job. And it’s always difficult to describe to some people what it is I do for a living. Sometimes, for the fun of it, I explain, “well, I go out and talk to large groups of hungover people.” To a degree, that’s what I’m doing quite often when I’m keynoting […]

“Empower people with niceness” – PEX Network Special Report on Customer Relationships

Next week in Orlando, I’m set to be the opening speaker for the 14th Annual Process Excellence Week 2013 in Orlando – with folks from most global Fortune 1,000 organizations in the room. The focus – aligning fast paced change to a customer centric world, and the need to align business process to market, customer, technology, […]

Iowa Farmer Today on Jim Carroll: “Future of ag is focused on growth”

Future of ag is focused on growth By Zoe Martin Iowa Farmer Today | Posted: Thursday, December 27, 2012 Jim Carroll knows a lot about camping, urban renewal, golf and agriculture. Above all, the author, speaker and consultant knows change. “It’s hard to explain what I do,” said Carroll, a “futurist.” “I walk into virtually […]

Trending in 2013: What’s to Come In The Year To Come?

Here’s some of the key trends that I see unfolding through 2013 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 […]

Highly interactive, highly insightful – a private strategy meeting for 50!

Last week, I had a fascinating session with a leading financial services firm. The client wanted to book me for a keynote talk for 5o members of their member service team, in order to take a look at future trends in terms of interaction, support and relationships. Some of the issues on the table involved […]

Trend Report: The Future of Retail – Logistics, E-commerce and Attention Spans!

I’ve just had an article published in STOrai Magazine. This is the monthly magazine for the Retail Association of India, one of the largest such groups in the world. The article takes a look at the trends which will define the world of retail through the next 1, 2, 5 to 10 years. You can […]

Moving beyond the Meltdown! How to refocus 2,200 mayors and advisors in Texas!

Last week I was honoured to be the opening keynote speaker for over 2,200 mayors and elected officials from throughout the great state of Texas, for the 100th Annual Meeting of the Texas Municipal League. A fascinating time and a wonderful opportunity to speak to a vast audience with a lot of divergent viewpoints about […]

Keynote: Aligning Acceleration and Agility: The Business Case for Fast!

So I’ve been running around for years, preaching my mantra to many global organizations that a key chance for innovation success will come from the ability to align yourself to fast paced future trends… I’ve even written books on the theme: both The Future Belongs To Those Who Are Fast and Ready, Set, Done: How […]

What do innovative companies do, and do extremely well?

Ok, observations from another senior leadership meeting for a global powerhouse …. in this case, a dinner talk held last month. I had a room full of senior VP’s, regional representatives from around the world — over 200 high performance individuals. So what did I focus on? Aside from a variety of fast-paced trends redefining […]

Investing In The Future: What the Venture Capitalists and Angel Investors are Asking Me

Recently, I’ve had two absolutely fascinating session, each about 2-3 hours in length. In one case, a major private equity firm engaged me to meet with their main advisory board In another case, I met with a group of very wealthy investors who were / are owners of major family held businesses, with valuations into the […]

Conversations with a CEO: What BIG Issues They REALLY Think About!

While I do a lot of major keynotes for associations and conferences — yesterday, I opened the HR Southwest conference in Dallas with an audience of about 2,000 — I also do a lot of small, executive oriented sessions. These range from groups of 10 people around a boardroom table, or a senior leadership group […]

Why US Manufacturing is Roaring Back – And Why They’re Manufacturing Optimism!

As I wrote in one of my columns last year (“Smartphones are changing everything,” August 2011), when I give a keynote I like to use a service called Poll Everywhere — the same technology at the heart of the American Idol voting process. I put a poll on the front screen and audience members can […]