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.
If you keeping doing the same old thing, you’ll
end up with the same old thing!
This is from my January 2011 CAMagazine column. The article was based upon a blog post by Asymco in October of 2010, and includes some commentary from a previous blog post I made on fast changing product life-cycles. When Apple reported results last fall that blew past analyst expectations, there was a lot of talk […]
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Let’s say that “innovation” has become a key word for your organization and your team. If that’s the case, where do you start? Start out with the mindset that there’s a lot of opportunity to do things differently, if you think about innovation as the “fixing of problems.” Innovation need not be strictly the development […]
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Here’s another week of unique insight from my blog tracking tool, that links the search phrases that people used to find a page on my site. This is week #3. This is proving to be a great tool for those who track my site to discover some of the information buried in several thousand blog […]
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A few years ago, when I was the closing speaker for the Swiss Innovation Forum in Zurich, I made the observation that many “organizations fail because they have failure ingrained in their corporate culture!” Do you? It can be difficult to try to be innovative in many organizations. Many people with an innovation-oriented mindset often […]
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A few weeks ago, I set up the Reinvigorate.Net “simple, real time web analytics & heatmaps” service on my Website. It took but seconds to do so — I had to create my account (signing up for a year) and add a Wordpress plugin. Within minutes, I had all kinds of cool data flowing in […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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I’ve got a new Web traffic monitoring tool – Re-Energize — which is quite wonderful! And every day, when I look at how people are finding my site, it’s become quite obvious that a lot of traffic comes in for people looking for information on the sport of ‘zorbing.’ Why do they find my site? […]
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A quick little video from a keynote in which I outline what organizations often do — with good intentions that go horribly wrong. Think about what happens — suddenly, a message is established that only ‘special people’ on the ‘special team’ are responsible for innovation. Here’s what I wrote in What I Learned From Frogs […]
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What are the major trends that will shape our world in the future? Here’s what you need to be thinking about now! How SMALL is your world? Are you thinking BIG enough in terms of just how many big trends are going to impact your future? Many people ask me how I spend my […]
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Each year, Deloitte South Africa presents their annual “Best Companies to Work For In South Africa” survey, and coincident with that, they honour companies that show the best talent management practices. The companies are selected through a diligent process ; the entire event is built around the theme of world class HR and talent management […]
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It was a busy September, with keynotes and leadership events for the likes of PPG, the Utah League of Cities and Towns, St. Joseph’s Health Center, Transcontinental Media, the Ohio League of Bankers, the Illinois League of Financial Institutions, the Minnesota Hospital Association CEO Summit, Allied Solutions and many other events. A common theme for […]
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Welcome to the folks from FarmSecure – Great to see you here! Over the last fifteen years as a futurist and innovation expert, I’ve spoken to a tremendous number of agricultural groups. This has often included large groups of farmers, attending an event where I’ve been asked to speak at a community economic development event. […]
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A quick little video hit on innovation from Las Vegas. If you want to innovate, you must take risks!
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This graph represents the model of product life cycles as taught in business schools for the last, oh, I don’t know, 100 years? Companies would innovate, and introduce a new product. If it succeeded, they would experience growth. At some point, sales would peak. The product would then tend to become obsolete or overtaken by […]
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It’s the first day of school and my family is busy getting back to work and school and life in general. It has been an extraordinarily difficult summer. My wife, two teenage sons and I were due to take a three week vacation to Europe in early August. Two days before we were due to […]
Read MoreI’m now into a bit of a slow stretch for some summer; postings here will be slow for a time. Years ago, inspired by similar times, I wrote about how innovation thrives in the building of sandcastles. It was a great post — and it made it into BusinessWeek. I thought it a fitting post […]
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At the recent Consumer Electronics Association CEO summit in Ojai, CA, I focused on how social networks are coming to have a huge impact on brand perception. But aside from that main thread, I also concentrated on my message of innovation in an era in which “faster is the new fast.” Here’s an older clip that […]
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With all the keynotes I do, I spend a huge amount of time on airplanes — and often end up going through a lot of video. As of late, I’ve seen a number of rock documentaries, and was struck by some of the unique innovation stories in these films. And so I’ve put this list […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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? […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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