Insight Index - Futurist Keynote Speaker Jim Carroll: Disruptive Trend & Innovation Expert

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!

Though Leadership at Speed : Aligning Your Team to the Era of Acceleration!

For over 25 years, I’ve challenged leadership teams at some of the most fascinating organizations in the world – such as NASA, Disney, Pfizer, Mercedes – to align to an era of new, fast disruptive change. I suspect that with faster change, they are going to need faster insight – and that’s the type of […]

Video: Caskets – It’s Better to Pursue Business Model Disruption than Business Model Preservation

Check out my page, The Reality of Disruption: (24 Reasons Why Your Company Might Die Before You Get Old). It’s right here: http://disruption.jimcarroll.com Study the list. What trends are you likely at risk from? Then watch this short video about caskets and disruption – and consider why your business model might actually die before you […]

The Reality of Disruption(24 Reasons Why Your Company Might Die Before You Get Old)

Individually, any trend is disruptive. Combine them together, and it’s transformative. Legacy is death: agility and speed are the new metrics for success. I’ve published a list of 24 transformative trends that are defining your future. There are many more. Are you prepared for what comes next? See the full list and post at https://disruption.jimcarroll.com

The Acceleration of Retail : Looking Forward by Looking Back!

Here’s a highlight clip from a keynote I gave at a major retail conference just six months before the global pandemic accelerated every single trend I was speaking about. Retail is never going back to where it was – it’s only going to go to a world of continuous, exponential change – and you need […]

Reinvention: The Critical Element in Your Disruptive Business Strategy

At some point in time, if it has not yet happened, you’ll come to realize that the future that you thought you had no longer exists, and that you need to do something new. And if you are a business organization, that realization brings you the reality that you need to reinvent your revenue. This […]

The Future, and the People Who Hate It : What Happens When People Tune Out From What Comes Next?

Over the last 28 years, I’ve appeared on stage worldwide at well over 2,000 events, in front of upwards of 2 million people. There have been small events of a few dozen, and many large-scale Las Vegas and other conference center events with 5,000 or 7,500 people. That’s a lot of insight shared! A guy […]

Video: “What Should You Do Monday Morning? I Know What You Shouldn’t Do!”

From the vaults. Don’t be Motorola.

Video: Customer relationships have forever changed with Covid. Have you?

Here’s a clip to get you thinking. This is from a custom virtual keynote production I prepared for a global insurance conference on behalf of my client, Salesforce. COVID-19 is not a disruption. It’s an accelerant. It has magnified and accelerated everything that is good and everything that is bad. If you have not realigned […]

Video: The Acceleration of Financial Services!

Geography is collapsing, how people search for financial services is changing, loyalty is declining, competition is increasing, relationship building is not always done in person, attention spans are collapsing, and with that, the foundation of interaction is changing. And the future is accelerating. This is the future of financial services. Are you really prepared for what comes next? Learn […]

Headlines: Why Electric Cars will Happen Faster Than You Think (and Everything Else You Need to Know About Energy!)

I’ve long been meaning to interview one of the smartest guys I know in the world of energy and utilities, and last week found the perfect opportunity to finally do it – an announcement by Mercedes that they will commit to having an all electric fleet by 2030 – and an electric alternative forever car […]

Trends. Strategies. Actions : Defining your Post-Covid Disruptive Plan!

How well prepared are you for your post-Covid future? Do you understand the new trends? Have you formulated a strategy? Have you developed an action plan? I’m in my spaceship, talking you through the issues!

Trend: The Future of Manufacturing Post-Covid – What Can You Expect?

The folks at Applied Software, a leading purveyor of manufacturing software, invited me in to be the launch person for their new Forging Manufacturing podcast. We had so much to talk about that they turned it into two episodes! You can access it here. I spend a lot of time providing trends oriented keynotes in […]

Trend: The (Negative) Economic Implications of Vaccine Hesitancy

Back in 2017, I wrote what turned out to be quite the prescient blog post: Trend: The Emerging Healthcare Reality Crisis. Here’s what I wrote: Clearly there are vast sections of the population today who do not believe in science. They don’t believe in facts. They don’t believe in much other than what they want […]

Video Flashback : Think Big.

This month in 2017. Are you thinking big enough?

Video: Dare to Disrupt!

Because if you don’t do it, someone else will!

Video Flashback! Keynote on Manufacturing: Trends and Disruption

Here’s a look back at a great keynote four years ago this month. This talk was for Legrand’s North American leadership meeting, where the CEO and his team were fine-tuning strategies and plans for the coming year. They’re big in the global tech industry, manufacturing a wide variety of component parts and cabling. My talk […]

Video: The Economic Implications of ‘Hesistancy’

Some will win Some will lose — Journey A clip from a recent podcast on the future of manufacturing, in which I talk about the real economic implications for regions with low vaccine uptake. Watch this trend!

Your Future into 2022 and Beyond: Why It Won’t be 2019 Anymore!

As part of my ‘acceleration gap‘ theme, I hit the virtual broadcast studio and filmed a concise piece on what world-class innovators learned throughout the pandemic – and what you are up against if you don’t change!

Fitbits for Cows, Drone Technology, and the Fact that the Future of Just About Everything is All About Batteries!

Here’s a clip to get you thinking! It’s from a talk I gave for a global Siemens energy summit. I’m telling the story about how the fact that we have ‘fitbits for cows’ is one of the trends that is leading to the acceleration of battery technology via drones – which impacts automotive, energy, and […]

The Future: If You Look Back at Today from 2030, What Will You See?

One of the challenges with the global pandemic is that so many companies were essentially involved in triage – fighting tooth and nail every day to align to sudden new business realities – that many forgot about the vast, disruptive change sweeping their industry. Two years ago to the day today, I was on stage […]

Innovation Isn’t What You Think It Is – Here’s What You Need to Know!

The following article was published in AkzoNoble’s “A” Magazine, featuring some of my thoughts on innovation in organizations. The organization is the largest global paints and coatings company and is a leading producer of specialty chemicals. The article is a good read as to how I think and work. It was distributed in print form […]

The Disruptive Trends that Define Your REALLY BIG Future. But Are You Thinking too Small?

Individually, any trend is disruptive. Combine them together, and it’s transformative. When everything connects, power disperses. Legacy is death: agility and speed are the new metrics for success. These are some of the mantras that should define your future. Disruption is real, it’s big, and it’s happening faster than you think. The trends that define […]

Trend : Workback Pushback – What happens when People DON’T Want to Go Back to the Office?

As we start to enter the next, new phase of our post-pandemic world, what happens when people don’t want to back to the office? What happens with those who like their new space? Expect this question to dominate the world of HR, future trends, leadership, and all kinds of other topic areas in the months and […]

The Dark Underside of a Usually Optimistic Future: How Bad Could Things Get? Pretty Bad!

I bill myself as an “Optimistic Futurist.” My running joke when walking out on stage was – and is – “I can’t tell you that your future sucks, because then I wouldn’t get many repeat bookings.” But all kidding aside, I try to force myself each and every day into a positive frame of mind […]