Competitive Futures and Aurora WDC will partner to provide the most complete intelligence possible on strategic business challenges, as well as to train analysts in the sophisticated techniques required by a rapidly evolving future.
Competitive Futures, a leading provider of strategic intelligence services for business and government, formally announced its strategic alliance with Aurora WDC, one of the top companies in the world for global competitive intelligence research and analysis. The alliance will build on the complementary strengths of each organization to achieve their shared goal of creating a world of future-focused leaders with sophisticated analytical skills.
Aurora WDC CEO Arik Johnson commented, "We've worked together with Eric Garland and Competitive Futures for years now to create the Intelligence Collaborative with the goal of uniting the analytical profession. Now, as Aurora WDC moves more into the vitally important space of intelligence education, we are excited to partner with the world's leading firm in training executives in the area of foresight."
Eric Garland added, "At Competitive Futures, we bring our clients the best possible information. When we need competitor research, there is no finer firm than Aurora WDC when it comes to global primary competitive intelligence. And as the firm moves in the direction of further elevating this profession through training, events, and media production, we could not be more excited to be official partners of Aurora."
About Aurora WDC:
Founded in 1995, Aurora offers clients of every kind global primary research, competitive and market analysis, monitoring and training services, software and systems consulting, counter-intelligence, integrated program development and a network of third-party solution partners to intelligence teams and their clients worldwide. For more information visit http://www.AuroraWDC.com or call 800-924-4249.
Managing Partner Eric Garland releases new book, How to Predict the Future...and WIN!!!
Competitive Futures Managing Partner Eric Garland released his second book on April 18, 2011, a follow up to his globally-successful Future Inc: How Businesses Can Anticipate and Profit from What's NEXT, which sold around the world in several languages.
In How to Predict the Future...and WIN!!! Garland illustrates how bureaucracies avoid actual discussions of their futures and recommends how we can turn our organizations around to become truly future-focused. His narrator in this intellectual journey is the fictional P. Hughes Egon, the world’s “premier futurological predictologist” for the past forty years who doesn’t realize how 1988 his visions of the future really are.
In the book, Garland exposes Egon’s twenty-five “tips” on foresight so that our organizations can achieve actual vision of what’s next. You too can learn important lessons on how to predict the future and WIN, such as:
Aurora WDC CEO Arik Johnson commented, "We've worked together with Eric Garland and Competitive Futures for years now to create the Intelligence Collaborative with the goal of uniting the analytical profession. Now, as Aurora WDC moves more into the vitally important space of intelligence education, we are excited to partner with the world's leading firm in training executives in the area of foresight."
Competitive Futures Managing Partner Eric Garland released his second book on April 18, 2011, a follow up to his globally-successful Future Inc: How Businesses Can Anticipate and Profit from What's NEXT, which sold around the world in several languages.