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Jim Carroll

Jim Carroll is one of the world’s leading futurists, trends and innovation experts. It’s Jim’s inspirational, transformative thinking that will help you discover opportunity in an era of high-velocity change. In his keynotes and leadership sessions, Jim Carroll has been helping his clients meet the challenges by focusing on innovation and by aligning their strategy to fast-paced future trends.

Jim Carroll has a track record of providing unique guidance on cutting edge trends and identifying opportunities for innovation to some of the most prestigious organizations in the world. When the Walt Disney Corporation went looking for an expert on the topic of innovation and creativity, they went with Jim Carroll. When the Readers Digest Food & Entertainment Division, the publisher of such innovative magazines as Everyday with Rachel Ray, went looking for a keynote speaker for a New York City based symposium on marketing and advertising trends, they went with Jim Carroll. And when the US College Board searched for an inspirational futurist who could address the future of education, for an audience that includes leading educators from Harvard, Yale, and 100 other top US universities and colleges, they chose Jim Carroll.

Jim Carroll has become internationally recognized for his cutting edge insight. He was named by Business Week as one of four leading sources for insight into creativity and innovation, and was a featured panelist on the CNBC prime-time series, The Future of Innovation, with host Maria Baritoromo. The global financial powerhouse, Credit Suisse, sought his insight into issues of economic growth for their global publication, Bulletin. Jim Carroll’s insight has been covered by ABC News, INC, Fast Company, CNBC, the South China Morning Post (Hong Kong), The Age (Sydney, Australia), CAPITAL Magazine (Dubai/United Arab Emirates), and CEO Magazine Hungary. In addition, he has written over 3,000 articles for a wide variety of print publications.

As an author, columnist, media commentator and consultant, Carroll is completely focused on creativity and innovation, insight that is captured in his books “Ready, Set, Done! How to Innovate When Faster is the New Fast” and “What I Learned From Frogs in Texas: Saving Your Skin with Forward Thinking Innovation.”

What does Jim Carroll bring to a meeting or event? Wisdom, inspirationand extremely customized insight. He has carefully studied the key strategies and leadership ideas that have permitted some organizations to achieve breakthrough innovations and absolutely compelling levels of creativity.

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  • 7 Things You Need to Do Right Now: Aligning The Fast Future to Your Current Strategy

    While volatility rocks global markets, there continue to be fundamental truths: your industry, products, competition, skills requirements, organizational capabilities, and ability to respond to rapid change will define your future success. Innovative organizations succeed by mastering the pace of the new high velocity economy. Product innovations occur today at such a pace that "time to market" is now measured in weeks rather than years. A furious pace of technological innovation continues unabated, with the rapid emergence of new technologies that change entire industries. Customer mindset has become increasingly difficult to capture as we become a society with massive attention deficits. Business models are subject to upheaval due to economic turmoil, commercialization of product, and the rapid emergence of new competitors. It's a fast paced world -- and that's why leading edge organizations are focused on key leadership strategies that provide for a fast paced future. In this inspirational keynote, Jim Carroll will challenge you to confront the "big trends" that you need to face head on and what you should be doing RIGHT NOW. Jim's client list includes the BBC, the Walt Disney Corporation, and Readers Digest Food & Entertainment group, the publisher of Everyday with Rachel Ray.

  • What Do Innovative Companies Do? How to Unlock Your Potential in the High Velocity Economy

    Business Week recently named Jim Carroll as one of the four world's leading sources for innovation insight. He was featured as an innovation expert on a global broadcast of the CNBC show, The Business of Innovation. It's no wonder -- Jim has carefully studied the key strategies and leadership ideas that have permitted some organizations to achieve breakthrough innovations and absolutely compelling levels of creativity. Jim has provided industry specific keynotes and strategic planning sessions for life sciences, health care, insurance, automotive, manufacturing, agriculture, technology, education, government, consumer products, retail, banking, and countless other industries. His latest book, Ready, Set, DONE! How to Innovate When Faster is the New Fast, captures the necessity for urgent innovation in order to remain competitive in the high velocity economy.

  • What's Happening with Your Workforce: Making Generations Work!

    Join international futurist, trends & innovation expert Jim Carroll as he explores some of the biggest challenges facing organizations today. With the coming "end of retirement," most companies will come to realize they'll need a lot of telephones with big buttons for members of the 70+ folk who are still a part of their workforce -- and a lot of innovative workplace practices as well. That's but one challenge -- the arrival of "Gen-Connect" (also known as "Gen-Y") -- the kids who have been wired with a mouse since birth -- will lead to the question of whether "good luck" will be the only possible response to the question of "Managing Gen-Y." This workplace weirdness will only be compounded by the ongoing rapid evolution of knowledge and skills, such that most organizations will find it impossible to find the highly specialized skills needed in the economy of the future. Are we really in an economy in which there is an emerging profession of folks known as "manure managers?" You bet -- and it's all part of the unique issues that companies must begin thinking about today. Jim's unique insight into emerging HR trends is in high demand - 3,000 members of the International Human Resource Information Management Association recently heard him put the issues in context on stage in Dallas, Texas. Join Jim as he shares his insight into the trends that you are already faced with, and the innovative and creative ways that you can come to grips with the depth of the challenges ahead.

  • Moving Beyond the Meltdown: Aligning Yourself for Growth Through Innovation

    In the face of widespread economic volatility, organizations have three essential choices: they can panic, making rash decisions on structure, markets, investments; they can freeze and do nothing; or they can respond to rapid change through innovation, particularly with respect to strategies, structure, capabilities, markets, products, and activities. Jim Carroll, one of the world's leading futurists, trends & innovation experts shares his insight on the strategies that leading edge organizations are pursuing to stay ahead of the economy. It's timely and critical insight! Many CEO's and senior executives understand that in addition to managing existing challenges, now is the time to focus on trends and the future, and that they need to act quickly to establish an innovative mindset to get there intact. Jim provides his unique insight on staying ahead in volatile times, through his signature keynote addresses, after-dinner talks, discussions at small intimate management/Board meetings, or by speaking and participating in large scale senior management and leadership meetings.

  • What Comes Next With the Global Economy? Opportunities, Strategies and Inspiration for Transformative Times

    Where will we be in 2015? 2020 or 2025? What challenges and opportunities will we face? In a world of massive globalization, what will our markets, customers, industries and organizational structures look like? These are truly transformative times, with an alignment of political leaders, business executives, consumers, researchers and industry groups all realizing that now is the time that we need to solve complex problems with bold thinking and "big ideas." Some of the biggest organizations in the world -- including Blue Cross Blue Shield, Toshiba, the Swiss Innovation Forum, the BBC, Motorola and Nestle -- have sought just such insight from Jim Carroll. As someone who has assisted hundreds of organizations in thinking about and preparing for the future, Jim Carroll has become globally recognized as one of the world's leading international futurists. In a highly customized presentation, he outlines the major trends that will impact you, and what you need to start doing now in order to respond. He will open your mind up to the opportunities of this transformative time - a new era when big ideas and bold action are proving to the the foundation for significant transformation in how we approach global challenges, problems and opportunities. In doing so, he will ensure you are well positioned for the future!

  • Being Agile: As Moore's Law Accelerates Reinvention in Every Industry

    Certainly the last forty years have seen technology play a huge impact on business. Name any industry - auto, health care, manufacturing, energy, banking - and it's clear that we are witnessing a fundamental and distinct shift of the innovation agenda to one which is driven by the speed of Silicon Valley, and by a generation of people in the computing world who think fundamentally differently about the source of innovation in an industry. As this occurs, we will see massive business model disruption as new, faster, more nimble competitors who understand technology based disruption, cast aside their slower, ingrained counterparts who are stuck with old, ingrained ideas. The future belongs, in other words, to those who are fast. Tech companies and tech based innovators certainly understand that logic. Their entire DNA is bound up in the ability to move fast. That's why financial organizations are finding themselves plunged into a whirlwind of change as our mobile devices become our credit cards. As slow-to-change insurance companies find that driver-performance oriented insurance policies, linked to in-dash GPS monitoring technologies, wreak havoc on old-line insurance assumptions. As the world of health care adjusts to the reality of a less than $1,000 genomic sequence machine - something that would have cost over $1 million just ten years ago, leading us much quicker to a world of personalized medicine. And an oil and gas industry which is witnessing hyper-innovation in terms of extraction techniques, driven by deep data analysis and other capabilities, which are leading to year over year yield increases which were unmanageable years ago. The new business model for everyone will increasingly use speed as a metric, and fast-innovation is a core capability.

  • When Do We Get to Normal? Why Thinking BIG Will Help You Seize the Opportunities of the 21st Century

    The "new normal" is that nothing will ever be normal again. Instead, transformative, deep substantive change now drives nations, markets, industries, professions and knowledge. We live in a period of time in which opportunities abound, particularly as society works to solve the big problems related to health care, the environment and energy. There are also huge opportunities related to business model disruption; the emergence of a new global infrastructure involving wireless and location intelligence technologies; the rapid emergence of new markets and products and countless other opportunities. The future belongs to those who are bold, and who are willing to think about the BIG BETS that need to be made to seize the future. In this keynote, you’ll be impassioned to think about how the real opportunities of the future will unfold.

  • Leading the Future: Key Leadership Strategies for the High Velocity Economy

    We live in an era of unprecedented, relentless, rapid change. That's why leading edge organizations look to futurist, innovation and trends expert Jim Carroll for a keynote, executive briefing or workshop that clearly focuses on how to develop and engender the leadership skills of the 21st Century. As someone who has assisted hundreds of organizations in thinking about and preparing for the future, Jim has become recognized for his keen insight into the necessary leadership skills of today. He outlines the major attributes that the future-oriented leaders of today have adapted: -- the ability to link the corporate mission of today to the major trends and developments that will influence the organization through the coming years. --a leadership style that encourages a culture of agility, one that allows for a rapid response to sudden - change in products, markets, competitive challenges, and other business, technological and workplace trends. --an organization wide trends-radar, in which all staff keep a keen eye on the trends and developments that will affect the organization in the future, and are prepared to share their insight, observations and recommendations. --a corporate culture in which staff are encouraged to not only deal with the unique and ongoing challenges of today, but are open and responsive to the new challenges yet to come. -- a performance oriented focus in which people are encouraged to turn new challenges into opportunities, rather than viewing change as a threat to be feared.

  • Achieving Growth! Why Innovators Will Rule in the Post-Recession Economy - And How You Can Join Them!

    Jim Carroll has been providing insight to organizations about trends, the future, innovation and creativity for fifteen years. Since the economic meltdown began last year, he has been keynoting events worldwide, rapidly adjusting the theme to "how you can innovate during a recession." He's had the opportunity of seeing first hand quite a few very innovative strategies from CEO's and others in a wide variety of industries as to how to stay ahead in rapidly changing circumstances. He's now busy sharing that insight in his keynotes, on the theme of "Achieving Growth! Why Innovators Will Rule in the Post-Recession Economy - And How You Can Join Them!"

  • Brand Innovation At the Speed of Twitter: How to Innovate in the Era of Hyper-connectivity

    We're in a new fast paced world, already, 175 million people worldwide participate on social networks through mobile technology. Organizations are faced with tremendous new challenges and opportunities in building and sustaining a brand image in this era of hyper-connected consumers. And given the rate of change that is occurring as consumers increasingly begin to influence brand perception, the new reality is that it costs substantially more to maintain relevance of brand image today. The biggest challenge for brands? We find ourselves in a period of time in which a brand is no longer what you say it is, it's what the consumer says it is! Join International futurist, trends and innovation expert Jim Carroll as he outlines the key challenges that an organization faces with the new world of social networks; the strategies that must be pursued to keep a brand fresh; and the interactive strategies and innovative methods that organizations are adopting to adapt to this new consumer reality. Jim Carroll has spoken recently on this topic to such global heavyweights as Diners Club, Yum! Brands, Burger King and the National Recreation and Parks Association, among others.

  • Healthcare 2020: The Transformative Trends That Will Really Define Our Future

    When Jim Carroll began a recent keynote talk for the Minnesota Hospital Association CEO Summit, he announced that he wouldn't even mention health care reform - and the audience of 300 senior executives cheered! Instead, he told the audience that he would take them on a voyage to the world of healthcare in the year of 2020, and provide them the insight they really need to deal with the challenges and opportunity of the future. Everyone in a leadership position in the US health care system knows that even with health care reform, the challenges facing the US health care system are substantial and immense. That's why innovation has quickly come to be one of the top issues that senior healthcare executives and medical professionals are thinking about. There is a realization that there is an urgent need to challenge the very philosophies upon which the system is built. They're seeking insight into the major scientific, technological, consumer and social trends that will, by the year 2020, allow for some very dramatic change in the concept of health care delivery. Where will we by the year 2020? We will have successfully transitioned the system from one which "fixes people after they're sick" to one of preventative, diagnostic genomic-based medicine. Treating patients for the conditions we know they are likely to develop, and re-architechting the system around that reality. A system which will provide for virtual care through bio-connectivity, and extension of the hospital into a community-care oriented structure. A consumer driven, retail oriented health care environment for non-critical care treatment that provides significant opportunities for cost reduction. Real time analytics and location-intelligence capabilities which provide for community-wide monitoring of emerging health care challenges. "Just-in-time" knowledge concepts which will help to deal with a profession in which the volume of knowledge doubles every six years. That and much, much more. The fact is, we are going to witness more change in the world of health care in the next ten years than we have seen in the last 200. And that's why organizations have been engaging Jim Carroll. For the last fifteen years, Jim has been providing his guidance into future trends to a wide range of global Fortune 1000 companies, associations, and other groups. In his Healthcare 2020 keynote, Jim puts into perspective why innovation is no longer just a fashionable phrase - it's the critical new leadership focus for executives in the health care sector. Jim has captivated management teams and health care professionals in keynotes for major US health groups as the St. Joseph's Health System, Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina, Cardinal Health Care, Providence Health, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, the Association of Organ Procurement Organizations, and the American Society for Health Care Risk Management to name but a few. He was the closing keynote speaker for the 4th annual World HealthCare Innovation and Technology Congress in Washington DC, which featured a virtual who's who of the health care scene in the US today.

  • Location Is the New Intelligence: Customer Interaction In the Era of Pervasive Mobile

    We're at the leading edge of the merger of three perfect trends: the rapid and massive emergence of a massive mobile infrastructure with increasingly intelligent devices. Pervasive location awareness as a results of GPS and location intelligence/mapping trends. And a consumer mindset that is increasingly open to new forms of interaction. The result is massive business model disruption, absolutely transformative market change, and complete obliteration of old assumptions as the nature of the customer relationship. Smart, innovative super-heroes know that this is an unprecedented time to jump on the emergence of location as the new intelligence, in order to provide for new ways of product uplift in the retail space, changing the very nature of customer loyalty through new forms of interaction, and enhancing existing one-to-one conversations through a more direct, distinct and fascinating new form of location based relationships. Futurist, Trends & Innovation Expert Jim Carroll is setting the retail, marketing and advertising world on fire with his fast paced insight into one of the most important trends to shape the customer-business relationship in the last few decades. Move over social networking - location is the new intelligence!

  • The future of education

    The future of higher education is huge. Probably about 50 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product will be taken up by training and knowledge activities within the decade. The reality is that American workers today, whether in a trade or profession, are in a situation in which the knowledge they have is continuously going out of date and needs to be continuously replenished. What is there to be concerned about when we have such massive growth potential? In a nutshell, we need to rethink the context of "how we teach" in light of the realities that: knowledge is growing exponentially the foundation of knowledge generation has forever changed the velocity of knowledge is accelerating exponential growth of knowledge leads to massive career specialization we are in the midst of a fundamental structural organizational and career change By 2020 or sooner, it will be all about "just-in-time knowledge." What is this leading to? rapid knowledge obsolescence rapid knowledge emergence disappearance of existing careers rapid emergence of new careers an ongoing need for continuous knowledge replenishment the migration of knowledge generation further away from academia a massively increased challenge from overseas knowledge generation the fast emergence of new micro-careers an economy that succeeds through knowledge deployment a fundamental transformation in the role of educational institutions In other words: much of the education structure that we have in place today doesn't match the reality of what we really need to do, given the rapid change occurring in the fundamentals of knowledge.

Books

What I Learned from Frogs in Texas: Saving Your Skin with Forward-Thinking Innovation
What I Learned from Frogs in Texas: Saving Your Skin with Forward-Thinking Innovation

We live in an era of unprecedented and relentless change. The emergence of China as a superpower; hyper-innovation and business market turmoil; constant career change and rapid scientific advances. Competition is changing overnight, and product lifecycles often last for just a few months. In What I Learned From Frogs in Texas, Jim Carroll provides concrete guidance on how to: * Turn challenges into opportunity * Anticipate future trends that will impact you * Move from a culture of indecision to one that is forward-thinking and decisive * Instill an innovative culture in your company * Develop key leadership skills for the future * View change as an opportunity to pursue not as a threat to be feared

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Ready, Set, Done: How to Innovate When Faster is the New Fast
Ready, Set, Done: How to Innovate When Faster is the New Fast

The high velocity global economy of today drives rapid consumer, business, industrial and marketplace change. The fast paced world around us is relentless and unforgiving. It drives increased customer and business partner expectations, requires faster innovation, and necessitates a faster more complex response to rapidly changing circumstances. That's why you need to learn how to innovate when faster is the new fast - by getting into a mindset where you're prepared to figure out a solution to a problem, almost before you know you have a problem.

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The Future Belongs to those Who are Fast
The Future Belongs to those Who are Fast

We live in a period of time in which change is happening faster than ever before. Success will come to those who innovate, change and adapt! The Future Belongs to Those Who are Fast features the best of the insight from Jim Carroll's blog, in which he covers issues related to creativity, innovation and future trends.

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