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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 makes for corporate agility?

In a recent presentation and Profit article, I focused on how organizations and leaders must incorporate four key capabilities: agility, insight, innovation, and execution. The corporate agility concept is perhaps the most critical: organizations must presume that the rate of change today is so fast that product lifecycles are collapsing, business models are relentlessly shifting, […]

Agility, innovation and execution

I’ve just flown out west to do a dinner keynote for a major telecom company. I wrote an article on my way related to what I’ve been talking about within the context of this and related industries. I opened the article with these comments: “If there are three keywords that should carry organizations and the […]

Should you go to war with your customers?

Based on the email response and media coverage, my keynote at the SCTE in Tampa yesterday caused a bit of a buzz. There’s an article from MultiChannel News (see below) that takes a look at my remarks. A key message seems to be sticking: cable companies should not go to war with their customers. Recently, […]

Time for an innovation audit?

From an article I wrote for The Boardroom, a publication for associaton executives: “Take the time to do this simple to test to determine if your association and its members are in the right frame of mind for remarkably new and innovative things, or whether they and you are stuck in a rut, unable to […]

“Volatility is the new normal”

I recently keynoted the Furniture Today 2005 Leadership conference in Miami. This article reports on my talk. Futurist: Changes will present new opportunities Furniture Today, 12/14/2005 . MIAMI — If you aren’t comfortable with change, you probably won’t like Jim Carroll’s vision of the future. “Everything is changing so fast, you don’t know what is […]

Fortune Magazine and the infinite idea loop

Fortune Magazine’s Business Innovation blog linked to my “infinite idea loop” video clip, and the traffic has been pretty heavy from right around the world. They had this to say of my clip on how innovation has forever changed in the context of what I call “the infinite idea loop: “It’s hard to discuss all […]

The Masters of Business Imagination

One of the biggest challenges in writing a book is getting the title right….. and this one has taken a long time. But while sitting here today in the snow! it finally clicked in: and it will come out :The Masters of Business Imagination: Why It’s the Only Degree You’ll Ever Need. Another alternative: :The […]

The infinite idea loop

If you need to understand why your markets or industry is changing rapidly, you need to watch this clip Understanding the loop and learning to work within it is critical to understanding how to thrive in todays’ complex economy.

10 Ways to Do a Press Release That Matters

On a mailing list to which I subscribe, someone just asked how to write a great press release. Off the top of my head, I jotted out a response. I’m on the receiving end of a ton of press releases sent by various companies because I do a lot of writing. Most are dull; contain […]

10 More Ways to Instill Innovation

My post yesterday (10 Signs that you’ve got an innovation dysfunction) generated a bit of e-mail with a few questions as to what else you can do to stir up an innovative culture. With some 80 keynotes under my belt through the last year, I’ve seen some of the best and worst approaches to innovation […]

10 Signs that you’ve got an innovation dysfunction

It should be pretty easy to walk into an organization and do an innovation audit — that is, assess the likelihood that an organization can do remarkably new and innovative things. Here’s what I would look for: People laugh at new ideas Someone who identifies a problem is shunned Innovation is the privileged practice of […]

Creativity, trends and innovation in retail, packaging and consumer goods ….

According to the Washington Post, some 33,679 new products were introduced into the consumer products sector in 2004, up 53% from 10 years earlier. Since the typical store has only 40,000 SKU’s, it can be pretty difficult for a consumer products company to succeed today! Clearly the world of retail has become extremely challenging – […]