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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!

Major trend – the future of the organization

Take a look at this kid. He’s your next employee. How are you going to recruit, retain, manage, interest, and amuse this fellow? What’s your workforce going to look like in 2012, 2020, or beyond? There’s quite a bit of focus on trends relating to the future of the organization — and organizations are seeing […]

The disappearance of change management?

I’m off today to Montreal, to keynote the 2007 International Financial Leaders Forum. This is a gathering of several hundred senior financial leaders from throughout the private and government sector. One of my key messages in my opening keynote today is that as CFO’s and CEO’s, they must ensure that they are putting in place […]

Quality, skills and the high-velocity economy

Back in May, I keynoted the World Congress on Quality / American Society for Quality, a fairly massive conference with about 3,000 attendees. I focused, as I often do, on the need for rapid action in the high-velocity economy. At that time, just a few months ago, we had just seen the recall of various […]

With all due respect to Web 2.0, what’s really important at a strategic level?

In the last few weeks, I’ve had several high-level sessions with the CEO and management team of a major construction company, as well as with the senior management team and customers of an organization in the packaging/consumer products industries. Top of mind for these folks isn’t their Facebook strategy, nor are they focused on thinking […]

Groundhogs, innovation, and the end of summer

I’m back at work, although when you work at home, you never truly leave it. There were two keynotes during the summer, the Destination Marketing Association International, and the National Association of College Stores, as well as a private management get together with a major commercial/industrial construction company. The plan was to take the summer […]

Ready, Set, Done: Jim Carroll’s latest book

We’ve got a cover, and have the first draft of my newest book in for design/edit. Titled Ready, Set, Done: How to Innovate When Faster is the New Fast takes a look at the factors that place us in a high-velocity economy the core innovative capabilties that we must put in place to turn rapid […]

Faster is the new fast: innovating for the new, high velocity customer

In the fast paced world of instant obsolsolescence and rapid innovation, time-to-market is becoming a key factor for success. This is a video clip from a recent keynote that I gave for hundreds of executives from the grocery and consumer products industries, titled Faster is the New Fast: Innovating for the New, High Velocity Customer. […]

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 relentless focused on the future and the trends that will impact them. They ensure that they innovate and adapt based on rapidly changing circumstances, on […]

Trends and big transformative changes. Example: health care

The view of the future by most is often short term oriented. What happens when you think about long term transformations? In my keynotes, I often put into perspective the big, massive, sweeping transformations that can change entire industries over the longer term. That’s one of the best ways to begin a process of thinking […]

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 […]

Innovation and the new workforce

I’m keynoting the annual IHRIM (International Human Resource Information Management) professional association in about an hour here in Houston, TX; I’ll have an audience of about 1,000 or so. My talk today broadly revolves around the issue of “what’s happening with our workforce.” I’m taking the audience on a tour of the key drivers which […]

Innovating in the era of instant obsolescence

We’re in the era of instant obsolescence: can you innovate fast enough to keep up? Can you keep up, when faster is the new fast? In the last few years, I’ve interviewed CFO’s and CIO’s with companies that have achieved rapid market growth, all of them customers of SAP. This includes such global success stories […]

Innovation, and the big “what-if’s?”

I’ve long posted this challenge to my clients: can your organization deal with the rapidity of change? Brands, product, marketing campaigns, skills capabilities, the depth of your bench: it can all go out of date, really, really fast. The art of innovation includes asking yourself: “what-if?” And you can’t limit your thinking, in terms of […]

Hyperconnectivity? Innovation at Nortel? Invent what’s already invented!

Gosh, I just wish Nortel would wake up one day. They haven’t yet. Their much hyped new “hyperconnectivity” strategy, announced to much fanfare by CEO Mike Zafirovski over the last few weeks, really isn’t anything new. Neither the concept, nor the phrase, which they now claim to have invented. Their “bold” new strategy is curious, […]

Banking and furniture industries — coping at high velocity!

It’s been a busy week, with keynotes for the American Community Bankers Association and the National Home Furnishings Association. This gave me an audience of several hundred CEO’s and senior marketing/sales VP’s of some pretty big organizations. And I can tell you this: the undercurrent of the mood within both conferences was one of being […]

Where is the insight?

There are quite a few people out there who talk about innovation, all of whom have a very different background: some with design experience, others who are from the product marketing world; yet others from the university research sector. I’m unique, in that my innovation insight, gained through the last 15 years of private consulting […]

Messing with bits of business strategy ….

When you are on stage, you’re mind is working at light speed, as you synthesize your knowledge to the trends impacting the crowd. You often don’t get to reconcile a lot of it till later. I’ve had two weeks in the home office and have been working on my book, and preparing for a raft […]

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, […]

Video – innovation and education

Some weeks ago, I spoke at the University of Oklahoma, on the role of innovation in education. The biggest area for any educational institution in the future is in the area of “just-in-time knowledge.” Whether we are dealing with medical, scientific, financial and business, mechanical or engineering issues, one thing is clear: the knowledge that […]

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 […]

Article: Innovators look beyond the horizon

CAPITAL Magazine in Dubai has run my article, “Tomorrow is the New Today.” The article is based on several of the postings to this blog over the last year, opening with the observation that “with all the organizations I’ve studied, I’ve long realized that innovation comes naturally to those organizations that are focused on the […]

Innovation? Do things you’ve never done before!

Several people who have read this blog for a long time have commented that I seem to be a bit obsessed with skiing. I am! And here’s the thing — I only took up sking at the age of 40! I decided at that point that it would be a pretty smart thing to do. […]

Minds of their own

One of my regular columns focused this month on the issue of “hyperconnectivity.” Quite simply, we’re entering an era in which almost everything is becoming plugged into everything else. For example, consider what is happening in the world of sports: “I recently spoke to a group of CEOs of some of the world’s largest sporting […]

Corporate banking at high velocity

I spoke last week at a senior level banking conference; in attendance were C and VP level executives from such major banks as JPMorgan Chase, Merrill Lynch, Harris NA, Wells Fargo, RBC, HSBC Bank USA, MasterCard Worldwide, Bank of America, Citibank, and SunTrust Bank. The conference, sponsored by global banking research firm Barlow Associates, was […]