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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!

Innovation, frogs and the future

A whirlwhind of activity over the last few weeks, with keynotes for Verizon in Orlando on how to instill an innovation culture; several sessions for SAP in Atlanta and San Jose on how to become a more strategic midsized organization; a keynote for the Canadian Horticultural Assn and the Canadian Lumbermen’s Association, as well as […]

10 Good Words To Adopt for 2005

Are there signs of greater turnover in your customer base, or more competitors in your industry than ever before? Is your top line getting hammered at the same time that your costs keep going up? Are your products or services becoming a commodity in an increasingly complex marketplace? Have you been so focused on managing […]

Does your organization use these innovation killers?

The Globe & Mail published my article on “innovation killers” today — “ …in a world of rapid and constant change, many people still manage to think that they can get away with routine. That’s why I’d suggest you undertake an “attitude inventory” during your next staff, board or executive meeting.”[ Read the article ]

Leading the Future: Leadership In An Era of Innovation and Change

We live in an era of unprecedented, relentless, rapid change. An era in which competition changes overnight, and where new products and services come to market faster than ever before. A time in which rapid innovation has led to compressed product lifecycles that are now measured in a matter of weeks and months instead of […]

What’s the future for intelligence?

I’ll be keynoting the closing lunch tomorrow at the 14th Annual Canadian Conference on Intelligent Systems. It’s a very august crowd of PhD’s, researchers, academics and scientists. I can’t tell them much about the future that they don’t already know — so I will talk about this: “In his keynote presentation, futurist, innovation and trends […]

Article – Will Sarbanes Oxley Kill Innovation?

Will the intense focus on governance and compliance issues in the wake of major scandal somehow force many organizations to throw the innovation baby out with the bath water? It may inhibit a board’s ability to focus on risk taking and long term value creation. And once risk and innovation are removed from the board […]

Telecom market disruption

Every industry reaches a point where new technologies, business models, a critical mass of user readiness and customer demands suddenly brings it to the point where everything begins to change — in a big way. Such is the case with the telecom industry — Voice-over-IP is a hugely disruptive technology, and it is now starting […]

Revisiting the future

For a while, it wasn’t trendy to think about the future. Now that’s over — I’m noticing that companies are scrambling to try to understand the trends and issues that will affect them into the future. That’s good — because we continue to function in a world in which the rate of change is speeding […]

” I don’t think the marketing world has figured it out yet”

I’m quoted in a ComputerWorld artilce this week, Blogs Bubble Into Business. The points I raise were discussed in an earlier article I wrote about the topic. As I comment in ComputerWorld, “….everyone out there is too darned terrified to try anything new right now…” which is a shame, because weblog software can have a […]

One of the all-time-great inventions…..

“…. was of course the wheel and it was so beneficial that people have been reinventing it ever since.” Picked up by my newsclipping service today. What a wonderful statement!

How to think about innovation

My newsclipping picked up a great quote by Home Depot’s CEO: “The landscape is strewn with retailers who had a great business model and got locked into the past versus building off the past”

Innovation article : “…you’ve got to instill a sense of courage….”

The Globe & Mail today features my article that outlines how companies must get back into an innovative frame of mind. The article also provides my innovation-framework — a practical management method by which organizations can learn to harness and manage their internal innovation processes. You can read the article here. The article directly relates […]