BlueStar is a U.S.-based company that provides digital signage, point-of-sale, RFID and other other technologies to improve sales and logistics. They engaged me to speak in 2013 at a meeting of their Canadian distributors in Quebec City. I presented my keynote “Transformative Competition,” which they chose because they wanted to simultaneously challenge their distributors to think about the economic environment, …
National Council of Monaco – forging a national strategy
Upon His ascension to the throne of Monaco in 2005, His Most Serene Highness Albert II laid out a distinct vision for how the tiny European nation would face the 21st Century laid out in a historic speech. As major economic turbulence hit the US Economy and as the same was foreboding closer to home, the National Council of Monaco …
Belknap County New Hampshire Economic Development – keynote
New Hampshire is a quiet, beautiful place, covered by lakes, trees, granite hills, and LIVE FREE OR DIE license plates. But behind each shady grove and just past one of the many lakes lies a network of small businesses that include sophisticated light manufacturers and healthcare companies that power New Hampshire’s economy. In my 2012 keynote and executive briefing, we …
Aluminum Industry Association keynote
In a world obsessed with Bay Area tech startups and “apps,” you might not think of aluminum production as an area of fast-paced innovation. Yet as materials science thunders along in the R&D lab and on the shop floor, the aluminum industry is constantly evolving to compete with new industrial requirements in the face of stiff competition against other materials, …
National Turkey Federation luncheon
The turkey segment of United States agricultural production is more than $5 billion dollars of gross farm income annually – it’s a major business. I had the pleasure of delivering a high-level overview of strategic trends changing the global economy to members of the federation in summer 2013 at a gathering of their government affairs committee in Washington DC. The …