"Every single opportunity is always within the margin of possibility!" - Futurist Jim Carroll
When the World Bank invited me to keynote on the future of manufacturing, they made one thing crystal clear: they wanted me to flip the script - paint of picture of opportunity, not disruption. Think about it - in the industry, everyone's been talking about disruption, what I could call "automation anxiety," global competition, new young upstarts, and relentless volatility - aka economic whiplash.
But here's the thing - despite all the big change trends on the horizon, they're rocket fuel for those who know how to harness them. With that in mind, I just put together a little Website that details my manufacturing keynotes - the type of thing I did for this group. It's over at https://manufacturing.jimcarroll.com. I highlight these trends at the top of the page:
“Collapsing product lifecycles. Artificial intelligence. The connectivity of the Industrial Internet of Things. Mass customization. Digitization, robotics, and the cloud. Design based on crowd thinking. Rapid prototyping and deployment. Faster time to market. 3D printing / additive manufacturing. Are you ready for the new world of manufacturing?”
As a manufacturing executive or engineer, you could look at all those things and see a threat - but the real magic is if you instead see them as opportunities. I don't know if you have ever looked at it, but check one of the highlighted images on the home page of my Web site.
That's the essence of my thinking, and that's what I shared at this event and many others.
My manufacturing keynote description goes as follows:
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While popular media and opportunistic politicians portray a picture of a sector in crisis, smart manufacturing executives are furiously busy with innovation, reinventing their capabilities, processes, and business models using advanced ideas, materials, methodologies, and technologies.
The reality of manufacturing today is that there is a big opportunity that comes from aligning with fast-paced trends. What a time for innovation opportunity, and for insight from a great keynote that really puts all of these trends into perspective.
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All of the trends sweeping the manufacturing sector represent an opportunity. They represent possibilities for reinvention, transformation, and innovation. And they are out there, just waiting to be grabbed. They are within the margin of possibility.
Do you have the same mindset?
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Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2025/02/daily-inspiration-chasing-innovation-every-single-opportunity-is-always-within-the-margin-of-possibility/
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![maps and charts - Predicted responses and results for the CMF treatment. (a) Map illustrating Eurasian reed warblers’ natural migratory direction (black arrow) from the study site (Illmitz, Austria; black dot) under natural magnetic field (NMF) conditions during autumn and the predicted migratory directions from the virtual displacement site (Neftekamsk, Russia; white dot) under changed magnetic field (CMF) conditions (magnetic inclination and magnetic declination changed), if birds do (white arrow) or do not (black arrow) perceive these magnetic values as a translocation and respond by re-orienting towards the site of capture or the migratory corridor of the population (see [other figure] for map colour key). Dashed isolines give values naturally occurring near the virtual displacement site (see Methods for exact values). (b) Orientation of birds tested under NMF conditions of the study site (left) and under CMF conditions (right). Black dots indicate the mean direction of each individual bird tested; arrows show the second-order mean directions and their vector lengths; the inner and outer dashed circles indicate the threshold needed for significance by the Rayleigh test (p < 0.05 and p < 0.01, respectively); solid lines either side of mean vectors show the 95% confidence intervals. (c) Results from our previous virtual magnetic displacements. Both the study site and the virtual displacement site are the same as in the current study.](https://files.techhub.social/media_attachments/files/113/511/109/583/373/274/original/474b5ebcc5ba3ede.jpg "maps and charts - Predicted responses and results for the CMF treatment. (a) Map illustrating Eurasian reed warblers’ natural migratory direction (black arrow) from the study site (Illmitz, Austria; black dot) under natural magnetic field (NMF) conditions during autumn and the predicted migratory directions from the virtual displacement site (Neftekamsk, Russia; white dot) under changed magnetic field (CMF) conditions (magnetic inclination and magnetic declination changed), if birds do (white arrow) or do not (black arrow) perceive these magnetic values as a translocation and respond by re-orienting towards the site of capture or the migratory corridor of the population (see [other figure] for map colour key). Dashed isolines give values naturally occurring near the virtual displacement site (see Methods for exact values). (b) Orientation of birds tested under NMF conditions of the study site (left) and under CMF conditions (right). Black dots indicate the mean direction of each individual bird tested; arrows show the second-order mean directions and their vector lengths; the inner and outer dashed circles indicate the threshold needed for significance by the Rayleigh test (p < 0.05 and p < 0.01, respectively); solid lines either side of mean vectors show the 95% confidence intervals. (c) Results from our previous virtual magnetic displacements. Both the study site and the virtual displacement site are the same as in the current study.")
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