"Shift your focus from managing the known to mastering the next." - Futurist Jim Carroll
After all, today's comfort is tomorrow's vulnerability!
A session description just went out for my upcoming keynote for **BIFMA**.
Who's that? The Business and Institutional Furniture Manufacturing Association!
Here's what I'll be covering:
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Harnessing Technology for Unprecedented Growth
The complex new future is not just happening with AI - we are seeing the maturity of industrial autonomous technologies, robots, machine intelligence and vision systems, digital twin and augmented reality technologies, the impact of ‘sensorworld,' drones, and more.
The scope of these technologies represents significant implications from very real business model disruption to unique legal and copyright issues, education, knowledge, and workforce skills challenges, as well as the emergence of disruptive new industry competitors and accelerated new product development and innovation opportunities. All of which require companies to pick up the pace. Join us as
Jim covers:
Technology applications for the product manufacturing Industry
Case studies on how technologies are being applied
Strategies in how and where to invest
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The key theme for the people in the room? They need to shift their focus from the current reality to the next one. Yes, there's a huge amount of change, uncertainty, and volatility going on, and it's not an easy time to be moving forward. That said, if you don't do it now, the chasm between what's possible and what's actualized will only become bigger.
I've had a few calls with these folks to walk through the trends, technologies, and ideas that will define their future, and there's a lot to cover.
I've been going through the issues and the trends, and coming up with a list of ten key pieces of advice I'll offer to the manufacturing and technology leaders at the conference
Read the full list in the post!
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Futurist Jim Carroll has spoken at dozens of conferences and leadership meetings on the topic of manufacturing innovation.
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Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2025/10/decoding-tomorrow-daily-inspiration-manufacturing-shift-your-focus-from-managing-the-known-to-mastering-the-next/