Institute for the Future - New site coming soon!
About us:
The Institute for the Future (IFTF) is an independent,
nonprofit research group with over 40 years of forecasting experience.
The core of our work is identifying emerging trends and discontinuities
that will transform global society and the global marketplace. We
provide insights into business strategy, design process, innovation, and
social dilemmas. Our research generates the foresight needed to create
insights that lead to action. Our research spans a broad territory of
deeply transformative trends, from health and health care to technology,
the workplace, and human identity. The Institute for the Future is
located in Palo Alto, CA.
Programs
The Technology Horizons
Program combines a deep understanding of technology and societal forces
to identify and evaluate discontinuities and innovations in the next 3
to 10 years. We help organizations develop insights and strategic tools
to better position themselves for the future. Our approach to technology
forecasting is unique—we put people at the center of our forecasts.
Understanding humans as consumers, workers, householders, and community
members allows IFTF to help companies look beyond technical feasibility
to identify the value in new technologies, forecast adoption and
diffusion patterns, and discover new market opportunities and
threats.
The Health Horizons
Program combines a deep understanding of the global health economy, user
behavior, health and medical technologies, health care delivery system,
and societal forces to identify and evaluate emerging trends,
discontinuities, and innovations in the next three to ten years. We help
organizations work with foresights to develop insights and strategic
tools to better position themselves in the marketplace.
The Ten-Year Forecast
Program provides a distinctive outlook on the changing global
environment for a vanguard of players in business, government, and
nonprofit organizations. Focusing on the next three to ten years, the
program anticipates discontinuities and emerging
dilemmas--discontinuities because they challenge business as usual and
dilemmas because they demand new ways of thinking about complex
problems. Together, discontinuities and dilemmas provide a vista of new
practices and points of view that will shape tomorrow's organizations
and today's choices.
While you wait, here are a few other IFTF links you'll be
interested in:
- IFTF Twitter
- IFTF Facebook page
- IFTF
LinkedIn page
- IFTF
Health Horizons LinkedIn page
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