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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.

How small is your world? Why thinking BIG could save you in the 21st century economy!

We are in the era of big thinking, yet a lot of people have a small outlook. Consider what leading edge innovation organizations are doing today; they’re prepared to: make big transformations: I’m dealing with several organizations who realize that structured operational activities that are based on a centuries old style of thinking no longer […]

What the heck are you waiting for?

When you are on stage in front of several hundred people, you’ve got to be prepared to be interactive and open to insight. That’s why I regularly use a text message polling tool on stage — I can quickly get a sense of what people in the room are thinking about. Here’s the results from […]

Video – Breakthrough results in recessionary times!

A quick video on innovation: how do you achieve breakthrough results?

Graduation time!

This weekend marks an interesting chapter — I’ll be graduating on Sunday! It’s been quite a long time since my last official graduation ceremony — some 30+ years ago. When I graduated from university at the ripe young age of 20, I certainly seemed to look different — the suit size was a bit smaller, […]

“You can’t be a futurist and a pessimist!”

Yesterday I spoke to several thousand people as the closing keynote speaker for the 2010 Fresh Summit for the Produce Marketing Association in Orlando. I focused on several issues, including the rapid changes occurring in the world of retail and consumer change. But in addition, my message included insight into how innovative people focus on […]

Healthcare 2020: The Transformative Trends That Will REALLY Define Our Future

A new keynote topic was put to my many speakers bureaus partners today, based on some of the recent work that I’ve been doing. Grab the PDF by clicking on the image on the right! What is clear to me from a number of recent keynotes for health care executives is that they all know […]

Utah League of Cities & Towns, Salt Lake City : Driving the Future of Economic Development

What do you get when you bring 700 mayors and elected officials for small, medium and large sized towns from the State of Utah into a room for a talk about the future? My main theory in action: some people see the the future and see a threat; other people see the same future and […]

The Masters in Business Imagination Degree!

With a lot of university graduations and commencements, it might be a good moment and pause to think about a degree that colleges and universities should be offering their students. That’s why I opined a number of years ago that we needed to prepare people for a fast paced future by letting them enroll in […]

Video : What do innovative organizations do?

What do innovative organizations do? They re-orient themselves for an economy in which their ability to react to fast paced change will increasingly define their success. In this clip, Jim Carroll outlines for an audience of several thousand the key attributes of today’s innovation heroes: In essence, these organizations concentrate upon: an accelerated innovation cycle the […]

“Whoah, dude, what happened?”

Are you surrounded by people who simply don’t “get it?” Who are oblivious, blind, completely unaware of just how much business model change is occurring out there? Here’s the thing — there are three types of people in the world: those who make things happen those who watch things happen and those who say, “whoah? […]

Innovation: “We need to suck less!”

I’ll often be lined up for a conversation with the CEO of a client organization when I’m preparing for a private client CEO leadership/innovation keynote. It’s part of a careful diplomatic dance. They want to ensure that the framework of my keynote addresses the key issues and challenges that they need to address to ensure […]

Trend: Short, sharp shocks of strategic insight

I was in Baltimore last week, where I was the opening keynote speaker for the 2010 Passkey Corporate Housing Forum. Passkey is a company that provides software for the corporate and association event management industry; in attendance were meeting planners, executive who manage corporate functions for hotels, and a lot of folks from various convention […]

The big secrets of innovative organizations!

I’ve been quite priviliged through the years to be able to observe, within my global blue chip client base (which includes clients such as the National Australian Bank; Diners Club; HJ Heinz, General Dynamics / Northrop Grumman Nestle), some of the fascinating innovation strategies that market leaders have pursued. What is it they do? Many of […]

The case for optimism & global economic recovery

I was in Billings, Montana last week, speaking at the annual meeting of a financial group. The audience included a large cross section of business executives from throughout the Midwest. My talk centred around the trends that might provide for sustainable economic growth. Here’s what I focused on: a significant and lasting change in perspective. I […]

Innovation: Think big, start small, scale fast!

A key innovation message that I spend time with my clients focusing upon involves the concept of “thinking big, starting small, and scaling fast.” (With all due respect, the thought process comes from a customer-service oriented strategy at McDonald’s many years ago, but it is easily extended to encompass innovation in general.) It’s such an […]

Trend: Switching from cutting back, to focusing on growth

In a whirlwind of activity over the last ten days, I’ve been the keynote speaker for conferences that probably represents the vast majority of global Fortune 1000 organizations, speaking to the trends that will impact the future of ‘corporate facilities.’ These have included keynotes for the Professional Retail Store Maintenance Association annual conference in Orlando; […]

Global innovation for growth : through long term transformation

Futurist Jim Carroll, at CRIM 2010, outlines how global CEO’s are positioning their organizations for growth, through a focus on long term transformative trends. As the path to an economic recovery becomes clearer, I’m spending a lot of time speaking at leadership events for strategies for the upturn.

The return of growth

My mantra about innovation is that it is always about three questions: how do you run the business better, grow the business, and transform the business. Address those three issues, and you’ve nailed the essence of innovation. Since the economic downturn, most of my global clients have been focused on the first issue: how can […]

Innovators always focus on growth!

Leading in turbulent times! That’s a topic you need to focus on in the high velocity economy – particularly as volatility rages around you. And leading means focusing on growth: pursuing opportunities that will materialize over the longer term, rather than just managing short term trends. That’s the focus of my “Where’s the Growth” document, […]

Report on my keynote for the Illinois Governor Tourism Congress

Here’s a blog post that ran over at the Chicago Hospitality Insider blog with a report on my keynote last week.” —- Moving Beyond The Meltdown” with Jim Carroll Posted on February 18th, 2010 by Jody Robbins How is the tourism business impacted by a world where information is passed feverishly around the globe? Immediately and […]

Finding growth with knowledge exponentiation

I’ve been doing a tremendous number of small, intimate CEO level leadership meetings; I’ll work with the CEO or other senior management team member to pull together a talk that will highlight the key opportunities for growth through innovation within an industry. I often point out that there are significant innovation and revenue growth opportunities […]

What do world class innovators do that others don’t do?

I was in Chicago earlier this week; I had a keynote for the leadership team of a company that’s involved in a sector of the construction industry. They’ve had some challenges with the economic downturn; they’re also likely to see a resurgence as infrastructure spending kicks in. But they’re thinking beyond what happens after that […]

The future: “…think in terms of transformation .. & .. manage the expectation gap…”

Another report on my keynote for 4,000 at the annual meeting of the National Parks & Recreation Association, putting into a concise summary the key trends that I covered (from the Parks & Rec monthly magazine). “… a solid turn-out of nearly 6,000 park professionals and advocates made the 45th edition of Congress a resounding […]

10 Phrases to Think About for 2010

The chance that your company, markets, competitors will be the same in ten years is virtually zero – so what do you do about that? Here’s 10 phrases I often use to challenge my clients — often CEO’s of large, multinational organizations — to think differently about our fast paced future: experiential capital: it’s the […]