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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.

INNOVATION INSIGHTS

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

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 […]

Trend Report: The Future of Investing & Advisory Services

I spend a lot of time speaking to global financial organizations —some of the world’s largest institutions — helping them understand what they need to do from an innovation perspective to stay ahead of fast paced change. These talks are often aimed at the idea of “how do we need to transition our advisory services — as financial planners, […]

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 […]

Interview: Success Comes to Those Who Evolve

A great little interview featured in Credit Suisse’s global publication, Bulletin, in which I offer up my thoughts on innovation and future trends. I talk about knowledge growth, hyperinnovation, and a variety of other issues. Consider my comments on the growth of knowledge: “It’s the foundation of what will happen in every single industry, every […]

Innovators aren’t afraid to ask tough question…

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 […]

Rethinking Innovation in the Energy Sector

Earlier this year, I was invited to open the Southern Gas Association in Austin, Texas. In the room, I had about 800 of the most senior executives in the natural gas industry in the US, including utilities, distributors, exploration companies, producers and suppliers. It was a pretty heavy-duty crowd. This was one of several high-profile […]

Innovation and the “10 Great Words”

At a number of recent keynotes – a talk at a leadership meeting for Dupont, at the 2012 Blanchard Summit, and at a small leadership meeting at The GAP, my 10 Great Words theme (“Inspirational Innovation Insight”) struck a great deal of resonance. I wrote it well over six or seven years ago, but it […]

Innovation – Think Like a Farmer!

The South Africa based consultancy runs a monthly staff newsletter on key trends and issues in the agricultural sector. They recently featured a piece that links to a video of mine, “Think Like a Farmer,” in which I make a good case that farmers are some of the most innovative people on the planet. And […]

The importance of innovation awards shows!

Through the years, I have hosted or spoken at a number of innovation awards shows. Last week, I keynoted another one – the 14th Annual KIRA Awards. They celebrate the knowledge, communication and information technology industry in the province of New Brunswick, Canada. In a post about another innovation award presentation I was involved in, […]

Innovation: Hire people you don’t like — and don’t jump on bandwagons!

I recently discovered that I was quoted in one of the Phillipines major business journals, BusinessWorld, n an article, “Biggest Business Innovations Engines of Innovation” published back in February. It’s always great to see the media pick up on a few of the key themes that I am always trying to hammer home to people — there’a […]

Three simple things about innovation.

I was a keynote speaker in San Diego last week for the PSCU Senior Leadership & Member Forum. I was honoured to be following Captain Mark Kelly, NASA astronaut, onto the stage. The conference is attended by senior executives of credit unions from throughout the US. My keynote, built in close consultation with the client, […]

Video: “The future belongs to those who think big!”

“There are people who are making big bold bets, big bold decisions, we are going to change the world and we are going to do things differently.” From my opening keynote for the 2012 Accenture International Utilities and Energy Conference last week in San Francisco. Where do you stand? In a company that is focused […]

“80 of the Biggest Names in Consumer Goods Join Together to Make Big Industry Predictions”

Consumer Goods & Technology Magazine has just released their 2012 Review & Outlook Report – “”80 of the Biggest Names in Consumer Goods Join Together to Make Big Industry Predictions”. I’m honoured to be one of those 80 contributors. This year, they were focused on the major trends which would impact the consumer good space […]

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.

10 Surefire Ways to Destroy Innovative Thinking! (PDF)

The folks who publish the newsletter The Watercooler: Straight Talk on Strategic Issues” liked a blog post I ran a while back and asked if they could reprint it. I said sure — in fact, I encourage anyone to reprint materials they find on my site (with permission, of course.) Click on the PDF and […]

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: A Fundamental Reinvention of Cash

I was recently the keynote speaker at two major corporate events, both of which really have to seem a key theme at the heart of the “big issues” that organizations are faced with — and that is, we are in a period of time in which the very concept of ‘cash’ is being fundamentally changed, […]

Video: The need for BIG ideas to solve BIG problems in Health Care!

I think when someone looks back 10 years from now, they’ll realize that really aggressive innovation in the global healthcare industry really began in 2012. That’s because the scope of the problem is so “BIG.” The scope of the challenge everywhere – the focus of a keynote I undertook in Munich in July. I opened […]

Ten Great Words You NEED for 2012!

A few years ago, right around the approach of the New Year, I wrote a blog post that I called ‘10 Great Words.” Since that time, this inspirational post has become one of the most heavily tracked pages on my Web site; it also happens to provide the structure for the closing of most of […]

The Innovation Killers

Here’s a clip that I had out on Youtube, but realized that I had never worked it into the blog. It’s a quick clip on the “innovation killers” — the attitudes and actions that some people posses that manage to stifle innovation within an organization.

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 […]

The BIG food industry trend for 2012: Bold Goals, Big Bets

Health, wellness and food are set to become even more linked than ever before in 2012 and beyond. That’s a significant trend that I’m witnessing right now through the various keynotes and consultations that I do with a large range of food / restaurant / consumer product companies, as well as the keynotes I do […]

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 […]