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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!

Experiential Capital

In my book Ready, Set, Done: How to Innovate When Faster is the New Fast, I made this observation: “Innovation comes from risk, and risk comes from experience. The most important asset today isn’t found on your balance sheet – it is found in the accumulated wisdom from the many risks that you’ve taken. The more […]

Rethinking Innovation

Here’s one thing I’ve been stressing to many of my clients during keynotes, leadership and workshops: organizations need to work hard to ensure they establish an overall culture of innovation. What does that mean? Everyone throughout the organization has a mindset that they are equally responsible for innovative ideas; they’re colaborative with those ideas; and […]

“Thriving in turbulent times ” – interview on Cognos Radio

IBM’s Cognos division has put up an interview with me on their BIRadio site, which focuses on business intelligence. The key theme of the interview: “Author and Innovation Consultant Jim Carroll explains how to avoid “aggressive indecision” and why now is the perfect time to forge ahead with new ideas”. Here’s an excerpt: Kelsey Howarth: […]

Keynote: “…. a whirlwind of a speech….”

Back in November, I had the honor of providing the opening keynote address for the Picture Archive Council of America, at the 13th Annual PACA conference, in New York City. This organization represents stock photographers : the folks who supply the amazing shots and footage used by advertising agencies, publishers, magazines and countless other groups […]

When Do You Innovate?

Another clip from a recent keynote in Las Vegas. Quite a few global organizations are bringing me in these days to inspire their leadership team to stay focused on growth, opportunity, and innovation. In this clip, I talk about these issues, and put some perspective on dealing with challenging economic times.

Reinventing brand relevance

Here’s a clip from a recent keynote in Las Vegas. I’m challenging the audience to think about the issue of maintaining brand relevance, in the era in which customers increasingly influence the perception of brands through social networking tools. The key challenge today is preventing a brand from becoming “from the olden days.” I emphasize this […]

Focusing on growth in a perilous economy – how innovators win

There’s a lot of research that goes into every keynote and workshop I undertake. Recently, one key theme has been looking at how innovators break through the recessionary blues, and create new markets and revenue through disruptive innovation. This was the theme of a recent column that I wrote, “Keep Those Ideas Coming.” While preparing […]

Recent keynote: Innovating for growth in the restaurant industry!

I was thrilled to be the opening keynote speaker for Yum! Brands 2009 Global Leadership Meeting. It’s the world’s largest restaurant company. The organization, the owner of such iconic brands such as KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut, certainly finds itself in the midst of high-velocity change. There are fast paced trends in terms of […]

The hollowing out of big corporate R&D

I’ve just returned from delivering the opening keynote for the 14th Annual Portfolio Management for New Products & Services Conference in Fort Lauderdale, an event sponsored by the Product Development and Management Association. I spoke to the broad theme of “innovating faster,” but also challenged the crowd to think about how the “source of innovative […]

Avoiding the idea recession!

Cognos has run an article I’ve writen about the importance of not sliding into an “idea recession.” Here’s an excerpt: Given the economic challenges that swirl around us and the rapidity with which the events of the fall of 2008 unfolded, a unique and challenging mindset seemed to quickly envelope many organizations: corporate idea factories […]

100 Days of Innovation – #5 – Form Fast Teams

Over the last few weeks, I’ve had a variety of conference calls with CEO’s or senior executives for a variety of clients in the retail, food, industrial manufacturing and consumer product industries. All of these calls have been related to upcoming keynotes. For example, in May, I’ll be the opening keynote speaker for 3,500 people […]

Video clip – “Dealing with the innovation killers”

Here’s another clip from my closing keynote at the World Healthcare Innovation & Technology conference — in this case, I’m talking about the dreaded “innovation killers.” What do you do if you have these people in your organization? Learn more here.

Inspirational video clip – “Innovating during a recession”

I received the DVD of my closing keynote for the World Healthcare Innovation & Technology Congress today. It was a barnburner of a speech! The attendees had just encountered three wonderful days covering all the fascinating new ideas, technologies, methodologies and change that is coming to the world of health care. I spoke to them […]

“Dive-in movies” and High-Velocity Product Innovation

Here’s an interesting way to think about the issue of high-velocity product innovation. I was keynoting a conference at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, last September, and was playing into the theme of how product innovation occurs today at a faster pace than ever before. I told the story of a ‘dive-in movie’ that I […]

The Obama economy: what comes next?

A reporter called yesterday, wanting to speak about the “Obama economy.” One of the questions: “what will really happen with the potential economic stimulus package?” Here’s how I took on the question: Infrastructure: there is no doubt that there will be a significant national economic stimulus around federal state and municipal infrastructure spending. A key […]

Financial & banking innovation awards for 2009!

I just finalized my review of the entries for the 2009 Monarch Innovation Awards; for the second year in a row, I’ve been one of the panel of judges for the awards. The awards are presented by Barlow Associates, a leading banking industry market research organization. As their press release notes, “the awards honor innovation […]

Think growth! We get mail…..

I often get mail after speaking on stage to a group of people, or after hosting a small leadership meeting. Here’s one that just came in… As one of the behind-the-scenes people working at the conference….I was asked to pass along my feedback/reaction to your presentation. In fact, as part of my responsibilities, I edit/rewrite […]

What does 2008 look like on January 1, 2015?

Ask yourself that question. The year 2008 will look like this: it was the year that a global economic tsunami caused massive change — but it was also the year that saw the start of some pretty significant transformations. As we go forward from 2008, it’s important to appreciate that we’re about to see a […]

Strategy for early 09 – Set bold short term goals

Some day, the graph at the right wont’ seem like something weird. Maybe today it does seem out of place. Yet I continue to notice that there are a significant number of executives out there who are “moving beyond the meltdown” stage and are pursuing active strategies to keep their team or group focused on […]

CEO insight: “We’ve got the survival thing down. Now we’re into phase two.”

I was in a conference call yesterday with the CEO of a global organization; I’ll be doing a leadership session with them this winter. It’s one of several pre-planning calls that I’ll do with this client as I shape my remarks for their meeting. I love the clarity of the CEO mind. At one point […]

“I’ll pay you a premium if you can save me money!”

That’s the new value proposition for today, and you’ll do well to think about the phrase as you look to grow or maintain your top line. The number one concern for many organizations today (beyond mere survival for some) is cost reduction. If you can give them the chance to do this quickly, they’ll be […]

Kicking off 2009 with innovation as the CORE STRATEGY!

I’ve been confirmed as the opening keynote speaker for the 14th Annual Portfolio Management for New Products & Services Conference in Fort Lauderdale, February 2009. The event is sponsored by the Product Development and Management Association, the membership of which are individuals responsible for product and service innovation throughout the corporate world globally, as well […]

The economy and leadership: strategy meetings are happening NOW

I continue to see a lot of activity with inquiries and bookings for senior management / CEO leadership meetings. This confirms my belief, which I have been posting in this blog, that there are many organizations out there who are determined to stay ahead of fast paced economic trends. Here’s an example of a client […]

Rethinking innovation models – from Disney, to tin cans, to automobiles

Here’s another video clip from the New York keynote — actually, this is from the Readers Digest Food & Entertainment (publishers of Everyday with Rachel Ray) keynote. At this event, I was speaking to an audience of advertising executives, food companies, packaging companies and others about how innovation models are shifting. Today, innovation is much […]