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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!

For innovative organizations, tomorrow is the new today

With all the organizations I’ve studied, I’ve long realized that innovation comes naturally to those organizations who are focused on the opportunities of tomorrow rather than the challenges of today. By building a culture that is relentlessly turned to that reality, they easily succeed in doing things differently. And in doing so, they’re the true […]

Is your brand from the olden days?

“A brand today can go from hero to zero in a matter of months….” As the news media gears up for the release of the Sony Playstation 3, one wonders whether they are capturing an increasingly important aspect of the story: has Sony managed to keep any of the brand luster that it once had, […]

The impact of globalization

At the Swiss Innovation Forum in Zurich, I took a look at the real impact of globalization — the new consumer, market commoditization, rapid emergence of new business models, shortened product lifecycles….. That’s why innovation is critical : organizations today are in a situation in which everything around them is fluid, constantly changing and evolving. […]

The innovation killers

At the Swiss Innovation Forum in Zurich, I took a look at the attitudes, ideas and cultures which always manage to stifle — and kill — any hope for innovation within an organization. Key point? “Organizations fail, because their have failure engrained in their corporate culture!” This clip is based on an article I wrote […]

The new face of manufacturing : agility, insight and execution…

Yesterday I gave the opening keynote for the annual manufacturers meeting of the Hearth, Patio and Barbecue Association. Most of the folks in attendance were CEO’s and senior management with a wide variety of companies, and they were keen for insight into what they should be doing beyond knowing that the world is flat. There […]

What’s your future-attitude?

There are two types of people in the world — those who view the future with fear, worry and concern — and the rest of the people who look at the future as an opportunity. The latter group are the innovators; the former group will do everything they can do dismiss the idea of doing […]

What do you do after the world gets flat? Put a ripple in it!

“When we have this global competition where everyone is competing on price, the only way out of that hell is to up the value of your brand” — Jim Carroll, Snowboard Trade Magazine, November 2006 “Entities are engaged in survival tactics because they don’t know what to do next” — Jim Carroll When I started […]

The future of sporting goods in a world of high velocity….

I’m off today to give the dinner keynote for the Sporting Goods Manucturers Association Sports and Technology Convergence Conference in San Diego. When it comes to the future of sporting goods, it’s all being the fact that the future is being redefined by the next generation. As I observed in an SGMA newsletter: “…these kids […]

Your customers are high-velocity? Are you?

Does your organization have the right stuff to deal with todays’ information-empowered, globally collaborative, we-know-better-than-you-do customer? Maybe not. Imagine that you are a big company. Imagine that you roll out a new piece of software that was supposed to make things better for your customers. Imagine that it doesn’t do that — worse yet, a […]

Can you run your business at video-game intensity?

Video game business intensity is coming to all industries. This provides some important food for thought — can you run your business at the high degree of intensity that occurs within the high-tech gaming (not gambling) industry? Remember — the key words today are rapid time to market, agility, and execution. One of the most […]

Healthcare and medical trends

Get ready for bio-connectivity, skills wars, knowledge obsolesence and bio-informatics, not to forget healthcare stores. Those are just of the few trends I’ve been covering in some recent health care keynotes, both within the health care, medical, pharmaceutical and insurance industries. I find that a lot of people simply don’t understand the massive depth of […]

Can you deal with velocity?

The future belongs to those who are fast – that’s the reality of velocity! Watch this clip with Jim Carroll on stage speaking to thousands on stage in Las Vegas…. I regularly advise some of the largest organizations on the world on strategies that can help them to innovate in a fast paced future. And […]