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Competitive Futures research services

Let us provide you the best possible data about the future

strategic trend research servicesOur job at Competitive Futures is to get the best possible data about how the world is changing. Our real value add is in our research expertise: we know who is creating trend and forecast data to which you should listen, how it is being created, and what biases and weaknesses it might hold. The vast majority of information in the public sphere, that which is promoted by major media, is carefully selected to tell a certain kind of story that flatters the status quo. We help our clients get beyond this trap to find information that will help them exploit opportunities and mitigate risk.

Our competitive advantage in this area compared to other research firms or consultancies is experience. With over a decade spent collecting trend and forecast data for executives around the world, we know where the best data is found and how to get it to our clients with our insight faster than any other source. We know the various institutions producing such work on the future - often on a personal basis. We know the strengths and the weaknesses of their work, which alternate sources complement their viewpoint, and can comment on how much clients can rely upon their views when making decisions.

If you want to know about your competitive future, nobody will provide you with custom research in less time or with greater accuracy.

Competitor positioning

Some people say that it is impossible to know the future behavior of competitors and markets, that the world is too random. While this may be true, there is much intelligence to be gathered on:

  • Intellectual property
  • Market messaging
  • Capital investments
  • Human resource trends

Competitive Futures provides forward-thinking competitive intelligence to track the strategic direction of competitors in a variety of market spaces.

Investment due diligence

Our clients do not study future trends so they can make more clever conversations at dinner parties - they do so because they are responsible for billion-dollar decisions. Before they make those decisions, they invest just a bit more in checking their assumptions with the best data and most rigorous analysis possible.

We provide organizations with due diligence on the future of their investment decisions. From looking for sweeping megatrends in society and technology, to analysis of upcoming legislation, to in-depth analysis of markets and competitors, Competitive Futures collects and analyzes data that will support client's most critical decisions.

CompFutures Trend Blog

Eric Garland's author blog

  • Vince Gill’s take on an awkward moment for the music industry.
  • The Theory of Opposites (or, how I learned to stop worrying and love Amendment One)
  • Confusion over my status as a futurist