Jim Carroll is widely recognized for his deep research and analysis of how innovative organizations are achieving market or transformational growth despite profound economic challenges. For over 15 years, Carroll has studied the issue of what makes companies relentlessly creative and how they ride critical and rapidly changing trends to achieve dramatic market success. Carroll provides guidance that is timely and unique: how to realign business strategy for fast-paced economic shifts and new business realities; a realistic outline of the emerging trends, threats and opportunities that will impact your organization; how to become a more forward thinking organization that can anticipate and manage change, rather than reacting to it; and guidance on how to do things differently in a world that demands constant, relentless innovation.
The author of Ready, Set, Done: How to Innovate When Faster is the New Fast, Carroll has been featured in Business Week as one of four leading sources for insight into future trends and innovation, and was a featured expert on the CNBC Series, The Business of Innovation. Jim Carroll provides deep insights into how organizations are adapting to fast-paced trends through uniquely creative thinking and innovative leadership.
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The Obama Economy: Understanding the Impact and the Opportunity
Obama’s economic recovery plan includes a focus on healthcare, education, infrastructure and renewable energy. Carroll has deep insight into the key trends and opportunities in all of these areas. He’s recently keynoted the World HealthCare Innovation & Technology conference; several high profile education conferences on the “future of education’ ; he has deep insight into the emerging issues of intelligent infrastructure, which will be a key component of the upgrading of the current 20th century infrastructure. Audiences gain an understanding into the impact, challenges and opportunities with the Obama Economy, from someone who has deep insight into the key trends within each specific area of concentration.
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.” 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 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!
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. Carroll 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 CEOs 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. Carroll provides his unique insight on staying ahead in volatile times.
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.
Brand Innovation At the Speed of Twitter: How to Innovate in the Era of Hyperconnectivity
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.
Why a Recession is a Great Time for Growth and Innovation
The CEO of the American Chamber of Commerce recently caught the essence of the state of our “new normal”, when he observed that we’re in the midst of “this move from a really bad economy, to the next economy.” Jim Carroll has been offering his insight into the shape of this “next economy” to some of the largest organizations in the world, as CEOs and senior management move from “reacting to the recession” to “focusing on growth opportunities in the economy.” Jim’s insight on how to do this ranges from deep insight on how to “master fast markets;” lightening speed product innovation; innovating through new disruptive technologies; changing the rules of customer engagement and innovating with business models.
Achieving Growth!: Why Innovators Will Rule in the Post-Recession Economy – And How You Can Join Them!
The Obama Economy: Understanding the Impact and the Opportunity
Moving Beyond the Meltdown: Aligning Yourself for Growth Through Innovation
How Innovators Win: The Secrets of Growth in the High Velocity Economy
7 Things You Need to Do Right Now: Aligning Yourself to the Faster Future
Where’s the Growth? What’s Hot and Not When Volatility Rocks?
Game Changers: Transformative Trends To 2020
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