Ten-Year Forecast

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.

Kathi Vian | Director, Ten-Year Forecast Program

For more information on membership in the Ten-Year Forecast Program, please contact Sean Ness at sness@iftf.org or 650-233-9517.

Health Horizons

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.

Rod Falcon | Director, Health Horizons Program

For more information on membership in the Health Horizons Program, please contact Lea Gamble at lgamble@iftf.org or 650-233-9573.

Technology Horizons

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.

Marina Gorbis | Director, Technology Horizons Program

For more information on membership in the Technology Horizons Program, please contact Sean Ness at sness@iftf.org or 650-233-9517.

Custom Work

The Institute for the Future offers custom implementations of its Foresight-to-Insight-to-Action process for individual companies and organizations. Such work is grounded in the research and analysis that the Institute has done over its 40-year history. This rich history of thinking about the future and interacting with others about current and past forecasts sets a solid foundation for assisting our clients in making better decisions now to prepare for success in the future. These implementations are tailored to fit the needs of your organization along the lines of the following examples. For more information, please send email to: info@iftf.org.