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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.

“Here we are now, entertain us” – Decoding Gen-Connect

One of my latest columns focuses on what will likely be the corporate issue of 2008 – managing generational challenges in the workplace. In the column, “Here we are now, entertain us,” I take a look at the unique attitudes that Gen-Connect is now starting to bring into the workplace. There are several key observations […]

What Comes Next? An Outlook into 2008 and Beyond

As we end the year and start a new one, it’s a good time to be thinking about some of the trends and issues which will impact us in the future. Take a look at my newly released quick-report, What Comes Next: A Trends Perspective for 2008 and Beyond . My message for my clients […]

Making generations work – Cardboard people and plasma people

Can you innovate across the generations? If you can’t — then you’ve got a big problem to fix! I do a tremendous number of keynotes that focus on the issue of “managing Millenials,” and the complexities of change occurring in the workplace. See, for example, my blog post, “Don’t Mess with my Powder, Dude.” (below) […]

Future trend – The Future of Governance

I was in Colorado Springs yesterday, as the opening keynote of the Leadership Institute for Directors for FCCServices — they’re the business services arm of the US federal Farm Credit System. In attendance were members of the Boards of Directors for a wide variety of state and community farm credit co-ops; these folks are the […]

New book release: Ready, Set, Done: How To Innovate When Faster is the New Fast

My new book, Ready, Set, Done: How To Innovate When Faster is the New Fast, is now available in print. You can purchase it directly through this site, with immediate shipping. In addition, the book is available worldwide via Amazon.com. purchase direct purchase via Amazon.com Ready, Set, Done : How to Innovate When Faster is […]

The future of the legal profession

Some weeks back, I spent a full day with about 40 senior lawyers with a major government agency, with the main focus both on the rapidity of change of legal skills, as well as rapid change with legal issues. We took a look at the future of the profession, and had a workshop that examined […]

Innovation – agility is critical

I often talk on stage to my clients about the concept of organizational agility: that is, the ability to respond to fast-changing circumstances. In the high velocity economy, everything can move quickly : markets, customer expectations, competitors, products …. In this video clip, I take a deeper look at the concept of agility, outlining that […]

10 Truths about the Future

In my keynotes, I often talk about how the rate of change — whether with business models, product lifecycles, 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, […]

High velocity retail innovation

Back in October 2005, I identified the major trends that would sweep the retail and consumer products industries, and some of the key innovation methods that organizations should pursue in order to avoid product and service commoditization. You can read the original post here. Since then, we’ve seen continued massive rates of change in these […]

The Future of Risk: Achieving Skills Agility in the High Velocity Economy

Back to work, and I’m off to San Antonio, Texas, to keynote the Property and Casualty Insurers Association of America Joint Underwriting/Marketing conference. I’ll be speaking to them on the broad theme of the “future of risk;” what unique new risks might we face in society as we go forward. I look at technological, social, […]

Instilling innovation with the “trends and innovation feedback loop”

In the world of high-velocity change, how could you go about actually keeping on top of all the trends that might impact your business models, customers, distribution channels, competitors, and markets? How do you develop a forward-oriented culture that allows you to immerse yourself in the developments occurring in the global innovation feedback loop, and […]

Velocity, Agility, Complexity, and Flexibility……

I’m doing a private conference call today with more than a hundred executives in the life sciences industry, on behalf of my client, SAP. The theme, “Velocity, Agility, Complexity, and Flexibility: The Four Key Drivers for Competitive Advantage,” drives directly from the key theme in my trends overview: Future Medicine: Prescriptions for 21st Century Health […]

Innovation comes from flexibility, extensibility, agility…

In the high velocity economy, you’ve got to be able to design for a future in which all assumptions will constantly change! In this clip from a keynote to a group of global media players, Jim takes a look at the attitudes and capabilities that an organization must develop to deal with rapidly changing markets. […]

Business models and complexity partners

With the lifespan of knowledge collapsing, furious rates of scientific advance, and rapid new discoveries, no one company can do everything. In this clip from a presentation to a cable conference, I’m talking about the new corporate model of the future — one increasingly based on “complexity partnerships.”

Is your brand from the olden days?

“A brand today can go from hero to zero in a matter of months….” As the news media gears up for the release of the Sony Playstation 3, one wonders whether they are capturing an increasingly important aspect of the story: has Sony managed to keep any of the brand luster that it once had, […]

The impact of globalization

At the Swiss Innovation Forum in Zurich, I took a look at the real impact of globalization — the new consumer, market commoditization, rapid emergence of new business models, shortened product lifecycles….. That’s why innovation is critical : organizations today are in a situation in which everything around them is fluid, constantly changing and evolving. […]

The new face of manufacturing : agility, insight and execution…

Yesterday I gave the opening keynote for the annual manufacturers meeting of the Hearth, Patio and Barbecue Association. Most of the folks in attendance were CEO’s and senior management with a wide variety of companies, and they were keen for insight into what they should be doing beyond knowing that the world is flat. There […]

Can you run your business at video-game intensity?

Video game business intensity is coming to all industries. This provides some important food for thought — can you run your business at the high degree of intensity that occurs within the high-tech gaming (not gambling) industry? Remember — the key words today are rapid time to market, agility, and execution. One of the most […]

10 Unique Characteristics of 21st Century Skills

There’s been a lot of talk about the skills crisis lately. Most of it is focused on the wrong thing — people seem most worried by the fact that a lot of baby boomers are set to retire, and are taking their skills out of the economy. That’s a big issue, but that’s not the […]

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, […]

What’s your agility

I spent the day in Pasadena with, and did a keynote for, the Disney Consumer Products group; this is the business segment of The Walt Disney Company that extends the Disney brand to merchandise ranging from apparel, toys, home décor, and books to interactive games, food and beverages, stationery, electronics and animation art. We had […]

“Agility key to survival”

More coverage, from Communications Engineering magazine, on my SCTE keynote last month. “If you think your customers are a challenge now, wait until 2010, said futurist and ET keynoter Jim Carroll at Wednesday’s opening session. Tomorrow’s customers will be “far more demanding, will expect more from you, will be constantly pushing you, and will have […]

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 […]

10 big trends for the legal profession

In the last few years, I’ve spoken to a variety of professional service firms, including many legal organizations — including two of the largest national law firms in the US. In addition, I’ve become an expert witness in a number of court cases, include a successful leave-to-appeal to the Supreme Court. During this time, I’ve […]