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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.

TRENDS INSIGHTS

What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You!

Daily Inspiration: Upcoming Keynote – “Never hesitate to take on the tough stuff!”

“Never hesitate to take on the tough stuff!” – Futurist Jim Carroll In some situations, people are eager to take on the message of change; in other cases, not so much. That doesn’t mean you should try to avoid the latter. There are a. number of keynotes coming up from now through the fall of […]

Daily Inspiration: Workforce trends – “Retirement? It’s no longer a number, it’s a phase!”

“Retirement? It’s no longer a number, it’s a phase!” – Futurist Jim Carroll Years ago – many years ago, it seems – I wrote this into an article: “Are you ready for a world in which the concept of “retirement’ has come to an end? If not, you’d better be, as this is likely to […]

Daily Inspiration: Change & Leadership – “The future belongs to those who put in the effort to actually go there!”

“The future belongs to those who put in the effort to actually go there!” – Futurist Jim Carroll I went into the broadcast studio yesterday to film a voyage about yesterday’s inspiration, in a clip involving artificial intelligence, advanced robotics, and virtual reality – and how these trends all come together into a fascinating, accelerating […]

Video: “When we Start Building Gyms for Robots to Learn How to be Robots”

Futurist Jim Carroll takes you into a fascinating voyage involving artificial intelligence, advanced robotics, virtual reality – and how these trends all come together into a fascinating, accelerating future!

Daily Inspiration: Speed and Agility – “Be the cheetah, not the turtle”

“Be the cheetah, not the turtle” – Futurist Jim Carroll In Hawaii, you can swim with turtles. At the resort where I’m staying, all you need to do is put on a snorkel and a mask, and head out into the shallows, and you’ll meet up with these majestic creatures gliding gracefully through the […]

Video: What’s in store for the meetings and events industry in 2024?

What’s in store for the meetings and events industry in 2024? As a futurist, I had a look in this short video. From ‘drone shows’ to ‘event workflow software’ and ‘digital twin immersive site visits’ – and the impact of The Eras Tour on event expectations! – I take a look at a few key […]

Daily Inspiration – The Future of Construction : “…the big question is not ‘how can we change the way we do things today – it should be ‘how should we change the way we do things tomorrow!”

“The big question is not ‘how can we change the way we do things today – it should be ‘how should we change the way we do things tomorrow!” – Futurist Jim Carroll (Posting might be a bit later this week; I am in California for an event, on my way to Hawaii!”) Late last […]

Pre-event Promo Videos – Kicking it up a Notch!

As a meeting organizer, you want to make sure that you get people registering and signing up for your event. You’ve probably seen those clips where the keynote speaker is peering into their phone and are fiming a really poor quality clip. I’ve always decided to take things up a notch – and using the […]

Daily Inspiration: The Future and Change – “”Certain trends are inevitable. Your inability to accept them should not be.”

“Certain trends are inevitable. Your inability to accept them should not be.” – Futurist Jim Carroll The automotive industry strike and the role that electric vehicles are playing within is puzzling, but not surprising. The New York Times puts it into perspective. A battle between Detroit carmakers and the United Auto Workers union, which escalated on […]

Article: “How will AI affect the HR industry? HR futurist Jim Carroll weighs in.”

The folks at HR Director Magazine interviewed me for my thoughts on AI. Lots to think about here! How will AI affect the HR industry? HR futurist Jim Carroll weighs in ‘You are going to have to acquire skills in the future for jobs that do not yet exist’ BY Stacy Thomas 25 Sep 2023 […]

AI For Leadership Teams – Achieving Strategic Clarity

A short broadcast to get you thinking! Learn more here.

Daily Inspiration: AI & The Future – “Spend more time learning stuff that you know you might never understand.”

“Spend more time learning stuff that you know you might never understand.” – Futurist Jim Carroll Follow the edges. That’s always been my advice to many organizations that are trying to understand the future. It’s out on the edges – beyond the traditional world of R&D and discovery – that much of the future is […]

Daily Inspiration: Serendipity & Innovation – “”Great leaders encourage people to waste more time on uncertain projects with unknown goals that have unsure payback and indeterminate timelines”

“Great leaders encourage people to waste more time on uncertain projects with unknown goals that have unsure payback and indeterminate timelines. (Because they know it works.)” – Futurist Jim Carroll You probably know the traditional story about serendipitous innovation – that in the world of science, it’s the accidental discovery, the unplanned moment, the sudden […]

Customer and Client Trend Keynotes

Mindshare matters. In a complex and fast competitive landscape, positioning your product or service offerings to your customer or client has become more of a challenge than ever before. That’s why organizations continue to invest in large-scale or intimate customer-client events. It’s an opportunity to tell your story, position your products, outline your value proposition, […]

Daily Inspiration: Transformative Thinking – “If you are surrounded by transformative trends that are so big, why do you continue to think so small?”

“If you are surrounded by transformative trends that are so big, why do you continue to think so small?” – Futurist Jim Carroll Every once in a while, a conversation with a client reminds me of the scope fo the transformative change that is in front of us – and that’s odd since I’m in […]

We’re Hiring – Sr. VP AI RM!!!!

Actually, we’re not, but you will be. You need to hire a VP of Artificial Intelligence Risk Management. I defined all the job responsibilities here.

Daily Inspiration: Economic Growth – “At what point will you realize you’ve wasted time preparing for an economic downturn that never happened?”

“At what point will you realize you’ve wasted time preparing for an economic downturn that never happened?” – Futurist Jim Carroll Have you noticed that the media has now shifted from ‘all-recession all the time’ to ‘oops-we-got-the-recession-prediction-wrong?’ Over on Yahoo News, there was a comment to that effect last March: There’s a recession-industrial complex in […]

Daily Inspiration: Business Transformation – “At some moment in time, you will come to realize that the future you thought had no longer exists!”

“At some moment in time, you will come to realize that the future you thought had no longer exists!” – Futurist Jim Carroll If you aren’t thinking ‘big’ enough, you future might be what you think it is. At some point in time, if it has not yet happened, you’ll come to realize that the […]

Daily Inspiration: AI Megatrends – “Hyperconnected trends result in hyperconnected opportunities!”

“Hyperconnected trends result in hyperconnected opportunities!” – Futurist Jim Carroll If you are trying to figure out the impact and opportunities of AI, the promise and the potential, the peril and the risk, you need to go “beyond ChatGPT.” And to do that, you need to understand that in many industries, AI is bringing together […]

The Future of Manufacturing, Robotics and AI – An Avatar Interviews Futurist Jim Carroll

Let’s talk about robots! Because if you are at all involved in the world of manufacturing and are thinking about AI, that’s where your head really needs to be. That’s the subtle undertone of my interview over at the ABB “Factories of the Future – The Robot Podcast” which you can listen to and download […]

AI Megatrends – AI In Energy : Connected, Intelligent Energy and Energy SaaS

Prior to the arrival of large language models (LLMs) as seen with technologies like ChatGPT, the use of AI within the world of energy, particularly energy utilities and the electrical grid was defined by the massive data sets derived from the connectivity of the grid; the acceleration of renewables and grid technology that required the […]

Daily Inspiration: “You’ll never get to the future if you never attempt the future!”

“You’ll never get to the future if you never attempt the future! “– Futurist Jim Carroll If you are into that type of thing you might have tuned into Apple’s WWDC event yesterday to get a first look at their new VR/AR headset – or, what they are calling their new spatial computing device. And […]

Article in Dubai Oil and Gas News: “The Era of Connected, Intelligent Energy is Here”

I just had an article published in Oil and Gas News – the largest and most widely read publication on the energy industry in the Middle East. Published out of Dubai, the publication is a must-read of all things energy-related in the region. Currently paywalled, but it will become available over time. Intelligent, connected smart energy […]

Feeding the AI Dataset: Where does the Information in ChatGPT and Other Algorithms Come From?

I stumbled across a really interesting post over at Futurizon, the site of a fellow futurist – who compiled a list of the information that various futurists feed into the AI machine. You can read it here. Dr. Pearson comments: Thanks to Washington Post, we now know how the C4 dataset was made up, one […]