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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’s your tin can?

Have you been to your local grocery store as of late? Have you seen the StarKist Tuna plastic re-sealable pouch? That little package – a new product innovation if there ever was one – is responsible for almost $200 million in new revenue since it first hit the shelves. That’s not displaced revenue, but entirely […]

10 surefire ways to destroy innovative thinking

With all the upcoming leadership events and keynotes that I have on my schedule, I’m on a pretty constant stream of planning conference calls. As I dig into the culture and attitude of a client through interviews with the CEO and other team members, I’m always mystified to find that some organizations just seem to […]

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 […]

Location is the new intelligence

It’s big, and its’ getting bigger! That’s the location intelligence industry, which is resulting from the rapid dominance of location-aware mobile devices, the rapid emergence of massive sources of spatial (geographic oriented information, i.e. Google Maps), the rapid user adoption of location-based applications (i.e. iPhone Apps), and a significant amount of innovative thinking as to […]

The Innovation Killers

A great little video clip from a recent keynote that outlines the challenges you face if you try and be an innovator! You can find some useful information on dealing with innovation under the Innovation Inspiration section of my site, and through the Innovation tag.

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, […]

10 Things That Are True About the Future

Clearly the rate of change – whether with business models, product life-cycles, skills and knowledge – is speeding up. With such change, there’s a lot of uncertainty within many industries as to what to do next: a senior executive of one client commented to me from his perspective, “…entities are engaged in survival tactics because […]

Article: “Get app and go” – How I developed my iPhone app!

Last fall, Microsoft invited me to speak at a series of events related to its Windows 7 launch; I’d be addressing C-level executives on the key business strategies organizations are adopting as we come out of the recession. For the first stop on the tour, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer spoke to the audience, so I […]

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 […]

14 Key Innovation Strategies for Financial Advisors & Financial Organizations

(This post was originally written back in 2010 after I did a talk for the National Australia Bank financial advisory team. Sometimes, trends posts don’t bear up well with longevity. I think this one does) I spend a lot of time speaking to global financial organizations — some of the world’s largest institutions — helping […]

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 […]

Innovators focus on “corporate agility’

How quickly can you scale if you encounter a new market opportunity? How quickly can you react to a crisis. In this clip, Jim takes a look at the concept of corporate agility

Innovators aren’t afraid to ask tough questions!

In fact, the realities are that not only are innovative people unafraid to ask questions, they aren’t afraid to: ask the tough questions act on the answers to those tough questions! ask questions that make people uncomfortable challenge others to ask tough questions ask why it has become acceptable to not ask questions! ask questions […]

Cardboard people, plasma people: Generational change and innovation!

How do you master innovation? Through the powerful story in this video clip, I point out the challenges that organizations face with the different generations in the workplace — and introduce the concept of “generational collaborative capability” as being a key component of successful innovation.

How to get faster when the world is faster…

What should innovative organizations do? When everything is faster still, focus on these things: build up experiential capital – think big, start small, scale fast. The experiential projects are the “start small” part of the equation. Know what you don’t know, and set out to learn those things master collaboration and share: the world is […]

What do innovative companies do that other companies don’t do?

Innovative organizations focus upon the concept of agility: they can manage fast change, new risk, business market turmoil, staffing challenges, and market commoditization. They can do this because they are relentlessly focused on the future and the trends that will impact them. They ensure that they innovate and adapt based on rapidly changing circumstances, on […]

Is it time for an innovation audit?

Is it time for an innovation audit within your organization? Maybe so! After all, with rapid business model change, competitive disruption, fast paced technological developments, rapid and new branding challenges, customer churn, social networks and all kinds of other challenges! Right now, you need to make sure that you have an organization that is open to new […]

Silicon Valley innovation velocity set to dominate every industry

My January / February CA Magazine article is out; entitled “Stranger than Science Fiction,” it examines a major theme that has been part of many of my keynotes throughout 2009: what happens to your industry when the pace of innovation is no longer set within the industry itself, but rather, is set by the blistering […]

Key trends and insight from 2009

I’ll be shutting down through the next several weeks from today; I’ll still be picking up email, but my blog posts will slow down till the New Year. I’ll mostly be hacking away at improving my pathetic abilities as a skier. (Actually, I’m not that bad….) It certainly was an extraordinary year; I spoke at […]

PacMan in the streets! Challenge Yourself to Think Differently!

When you’ve got 4,000 people from large cities and small towns across America, thinking about how to solve some of the big problems faced by society, you can suggest small ideas, or whacky ideas. Here I am on stage, with a suggestion involving the latter. PacManHatten