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Why TFI?

Extensive Experience With Commercial Organizations Strong Futures Focus
High Impact and Quality of our Services and Staff Broad-Based Insight Among Multiple Global Technologies and Markets

Extensive Experience With Commercial Organizations

Technology Futures, Inc. has a long and successful record of service for a wide range of commercial organizations since its start in 1978. Some of TFI’s commercial clients include:
  • 3M, Alcatel
  • ALLTEL
  • AMD
  • AT&T
  • Bell Canada
  • Bellcore
  • Bell Northern Research
  • Boeing
  • Bosch (Germany)
  • Chevron Chemical
  • Cisco
  • Coca-Cola
  • Compaq
  • Corning
  • Deloitte & Touche
  • Deutsche Telekom
  • Dow
  • Duke Power
  • Eastman Kodak
  • Embraer (Brazil)
  • Florida Power and Light
  • Fujitsu
  • Gas Research Institute
  • General Electric
  • General Motors
  • Hughes
  • IBM
  • Intel
  • Kyocera
  • MCI
  • Mobil
  • Motorola
  • Nokia
  • Nortel
  • PricewaterhouseCoopers
  • Qwest
  • Raytheon E-Systems
  • Raytheon International
  • Rockwell
  • Samsung (Korea)
  • SaskTel (Canada)
  • Siecor
  • Southern Company
  • Sprint
  • Sulzer (Switzerland)
  • Telcordia Technologies
  • Telefonica de España
  • Teleglobe Canada
  • Telstra
  • TELUS
  • Texas Instruments

High Impact and Quality of our Services

For 30 years, TFI has provided top quality technology management, strategy, and forecasting services to many commercial organizations, as well as a wide variety of academic organizations and government agencies. TFI's extensive experience and future focus helps organizations select and apply the techniques that are most appropriate for a given requirement, and effectively use these different techniques in concert to achieve a higher quality decision and a futures focus implementation.

TFI's organizational structure allows us to provide superior services in a targeted, timely, and cost-effective manner. Our leadership and staff each has more than 20 years of practical business experience. Backed by an outstanding team of professional associates and support personnel, TFI is able to offer exceptional assistance in meeting our commercial clients' needs.

Strong Futures Focus

Technology, research, and science plans need to be based in the future. These plans set the urgency and direction for all initiatives a commercial organization undertakes. Without a solid plan and roadmap, no organization can realize its objectives. At TFI, we have a proven track record in developing future focused, actionable plans that advance the goals and visions of the commercial organizations we work with.

The ever-increasing rate of technical advance means your organization must be able to look beyond current technologies to the next generation, and to the generation that follows. This ability of seeing beyond the horizon permits smooth transitions from the present to the near future to the more distant future. TFI can assist you in both discerning future trends and events and operating successfully in an ever more turbulent and demanding future. We are very successful at helping our commercial clients to:

  • Link science and technology to capabilities and core competencies.
  • Transfer the research undertaken.
  • Deliver high-quality products and services on time and within budget.
  • Empower science, technology, and planning staff to look further out into the future.
  • Identify innovative answers to organizational challenges.

Broad-Based Insight Among Multiple Global Technologies and Markets

More and more corporations are becoming truly global as opposed to simply multinational—no matter where you are, the product you buy is the same. To stay competitive, global corporations must:

  • Consolidate investment, planning, and decision-making functions
  • Create trade and supply networks
  • Spread production activities and investments throughout the world
  • Adjust speed, processes, and pace of innovation
  • Be future-focused
  • Evolve into a new model of networking and collaboration on a global scale.

TFI's experience includes work with all segments of global business including:

  • Large Enterprises
  • Media Companies
  • Emerging Companies
  • Academia
  • Research Labs
  • Government

This broad-based insight gives TFI the ability to give balanced consideration to:

  • Organizational needs.
  • Advanced technology capabilities.
  • Strategic planning and analysis activities.
  • Your care-abouts.
  • Your stakeholders.
  • Your technology.

We can help you craft an innovative, future-proof strategy that fits your organization.

If you believe TFI can be of assistance to your organization in the Commercial area, please contact us by telephone at (512) 258-8898 or (800) TEK-FUTR, by fax at (512) 258-0087, or by e-mail at info@tfi.com. We welcome your inquiries.



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