
Tuning to Tomorrow: Street Smarts for the Innovation Age
Jim identifies the most critical issues facing your organization, explains what is behind them, and guides your future direction with strategies to improve. His value as a futurist is that he looks at the interplay between technology, economic, social and demographic trends while sharing strategies that cross sectors, often tried first within his own businesses.
Change is accelerating and technology is transforming organizations like never before. Jim addresses the stress of change by stimulating innovative rethinking of the approach to planning, work design. leadership and technical implementation.
Breakthrough Branding: Building Better Benefits
With each of us confronted by over 4,000 ad messages a day, and with all of us facing information overload, effective targeting with an appropriate and clear sales pitch is key. Jim uses his unique approach developing Better Benefit strategies to boost marketing and sales performance. Increasingly, customer satisfaction measurement combined with social media campaigns will improve customer relationships and drive success.
Leading Innovation: Developing a Culture of Thanks
Jim examines the conditions that produce the best results in the Age of Innovation, looking at the latest methods and ways to improve workplace culture and promote positive change amongst the generations. Jim can demonstrate the power of creating a culture of thanks and can advise of how to avoid the traps that lead to the dark night of the innovator.
Rallying Regional Innovation: Networks & Clusters
Jim has helped organizations and regions innovate, building community capacity in Clusters of interrelated industries in which a region specializes. The Regional Cluster approach to Economic Development drives innovation by forging partnerships between the private and public sector to leverage research, develop new products and services for companies in the region and grow local employment. Jim’s Better Benefit planning approach helps Clusters succeed.
Jim is the ultimate customizer, and will not only identify the most critical issues facing the organization/industry/audience, but will help support future success in a dynamic, entertaining way. In this time of maximum change, Jim will help you forge a better future.
Jim can mix and match from these topics to customize for each individual client