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A new era of "social wealth management?" Innovating banking at high speed!
I’m about to head out the door to keynote a leadership team, business analysts and IT staff for a leading multinational bank. The theme of my luncheon talk is, of course, innovation in the high...
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Reaching the new travel consumer
I’m off to keynote Tourism Alberta — and will speak to some 200+ tourism marketing professionals on trends within the sector. Alberta, located in Canada, has an extremely hot economy — globally, it...
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Understanding generational transformation: cardboard people and plasma people
During a CEO strategy session last week in Miami Beach for a major global publisher, I outlined that one of the key areas of focus for innovative organizations is effective “generational...
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Recent keynote: Innovating for growth in the restaurant industry!
I was thrilled to be the opening keynote speaker for Yum! Brands 2009 Global Leadership Meeting. It’s the world’s largest restaurant company. The organization, the owner of such iconic brands such as...
View ArticleReinventing brand relevance
Here’s a clip from a recent keynote in Las Vegas. I’m challenging the audience to think about the issue of maintaining brand relevance, in the era in which customers increasingly influence the...
View ArticleThe Impact of Social Networking on Brands
There are 147 million people interacting on social networks through mobile devices today – expect that to grow to 1 billion within 5 years. A clip from a recent keynote in which I outline the dramatic...
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Column: "Don't be a one night brand"
>by Jim Carroll, CAMagazine, August 2009 When you travel like I do, you spend a lot of time reading. One ofthe recent books on my list provides a fascinating look back at the 1950s and ’60s: Mr....
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14 Key Innovation Strategies for Financial Advisors & Financial Organizations
I spend a lot of time speaking to global financial organizations — some of the world’s largest institutions — helping them understand what they need to do from an innovation perspective to stay ahead...
View ArticleVideo : Brand authenticity is the new benchmark
How is social networking impacting brands? Take a look!
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Food industry trends: Faster is the New Fast!
Here’s an article that I wrote for Food Manufacturing on trends in the consumer, food and packaging sector. I spend a huge amount of my time as a keynote speaker at countless conferences and events,...
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Report on my keynote for the Illinois Governor Tourism Congress
Here’s a blog post that ran over at the Chicago Hospitality Insider blog with a report on my keynote last week.” —- Moving Beyond The Meltdown” with Jim Carroll Posted on February 18th, 2010 by Jody...
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Innovation: Riding fast paced trends in the consumer / retail sector
At many of my keynotes, I focus on some of the most successful creativity and innovation attributes that I see within organizations. Here’s a list of guidance from a recent keynote for a group of...
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Why social networking is like teenage sex
I used this a lot in the past, but it’s probably good to repeat it here; maybe there is a little too much hype around social networking, particularly around the context of marketing. Given that’ it’s...
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Location is the new intelligence
It’s big, and its’ getting bigger! That’s the location intelligence industry, which is resulting from the rapid dominance of location-aware mobile devices, the rapid emergence of massive sources of...
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What Pat Boone’s App Says About the Future of Branding!
Here’s an article that I wrote for the spring issue of Marketline, for the BCAMA. Some good food for thought on the future of branding, and how all this social networking might really evolve. Key...
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“We shop faster”– the new fast world of retail, food and consumer products
Here’s a summary of my observations from a keynote I did in New York City for retailers, agencies, marketing organizations, food and CPG companies, on some of the trends that are sweeping their...
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What are retailers worried about? Consumer interaction and location!
I just came from giving a keynote for the annual conference of a major customer loyalty organization, with the talk focused on some of key trends impacting the world of retail today. There’s certainly...
View ArticleVideo: Reaching the new demographic : Social networking trends!
In a clip from his keynote for the 94th Annual General Meeting of the PGA, Jim takes a look at the challenges the profession and industry must face in trying to reach out to the new demographic — the...
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Article: The medium is the message (social networks and brands)
Here’s an article from my September 2010 CAMagazine column: Jim Carroll was the opening keynote for the 2010 Consumer Electronic Association CEO Summit, speaking to the theme of "Brand Innovation At...
View ArticleLive text message polling – on stage for the PGA!
My recent post about using a live text message poll while speaking to a group of high school students drew a fair bit of attention as an example of the novel use of a social networking tool. This isn’t...
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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...
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"65% of the kids in preschool today will work in jobs or careers that don't...
Whether I’ve got an audience of 3,000 people in Vegas, or a small CEO-level meeting of 20 people, I always open with the same observation. It’s from an Australian study which concluded that 65% of the...
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Innovating in the era of the celebrity baby blog!
I just returned from a keynote for the Direct Seller Association; the industry dedicated to selling products to individuals in their homes. One might think in the Internet era that such an industry is...
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Trend : The impact of crowdfunding / crowdsourcing on R&D
GE is running an article, A Fresh Perspective from Many Minds, that explores the impact of crowdfunding on the world of R&D. I’ve long been pointing out that such efforts are accelerating R&D...
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