Typical Projects  back to top

An overview of our consulting, research, and education capabilities, the types of projects in which we are typically involved, and the methods, techniques, and approaches that we utilize are described in other parts of this website. A brief listing of some of the projects that we have recently conducted for our customers is presented below.

• Roadmaps: Technology Futures assisted a number of customers, including a large aerospace company, in developing roadmaps that were used to define the actions that were necessary to accomplish their objectives; define potential problems and their solutions; identify and evaluate direct, indirect, and structural competitors; and establish specific milestones to assist in program management.
• Communications Infrastructure: Technology Futures worked with a world-class medical center/university to define their projected communications system needs for the coming decade and analyzed various means by which these needs could be met.
• Entrepreneur Assistance: Technology Futures assisted a number of companies with promising new technologies in evaluating the feasibility of their technologies, analyzing market needs, potential, and white spaces, and identifying possible alliances.
• Grand Challenges: Technology Futures assisted a large government agency in identifying the challenges that would be facing the agency over the next three decades and assisted in developing plans to address those challenges.
• Enterprise Networking: Technology Futures conducted an enterprise network study to address the strategic communications network concerns of executives and board of a large enterprise.
• Market Substitution: Multiple substitution techniques were used to project market shares of different generations of technology for a major industry association.
• Organizational Structure: Technology Futures assisted in the planning for and establishment of a revolutionary new joint government/private industry corporation.
• Convergence Planning: Technology Futures assisted in the development of information convergence plans for a number of organizations, including a large private university.
• New Group Empowerment: Technology Futures assisted in the organization and training of newly formed groups within various companies and government agencies.
• In-house Workshops: Selected customers include:
  Boeing
  Duke Power
  EMBRAER (Brazil)
  Eastman Chemical
  IBC Conferences (England)
  IBM of Brazil
  Industrial Technology Research Institute (Republic of China)
  International Communications Futures Council
  Kodak
  Kyocera (Japan)
  TeleGlobe (Canada)
  USAA
• Keynote and Major Addresses: Recent examples include:
  Global Business Forum
  Intelligence Agencies for the Commonwealth Countries
  International Communications Forecasting Conference
  Kodak's Global Leadership Forum
  MIT Enterprise Forum
  National Cancer Institute
  Norwegian Telecommunications Conference
  Photography & Imaging Manufacturing Association
  Society of Design & Process Science
  Society of Telecommunications Consultants
  The Telecom-IT Americas
  U.S. Senate Conference on Emerging Technologies
  Western Communications Forum
  World Future Society
• Facilitation: Recent customers include:

  Delta Air Lines	National Geospatial Agency (formerly NIMA)
  Department of Defense	SBC Corporation
  Kyocera Kodak	Sulzer

• Special Assignments: In support of its customers, Technology Futures provides expert witness testimony, industry association support, identification of strategic partners, and valuation-related services.