| Future_Management_Group Research and training to enhance entrepreneurial foresight, including data on change and emerging markets and management of both opportunities and uncertainties which result; presentations, research, |
| Future_Speak Coordinates requests between organizations and futures speakers and facilitators for lectures, briefings, workshops, and conferences; lists sample forecasts. |
| The_Futures-Lab Forecasting and foresight for businesses, emphasizing creativity and the unexpected for purposes of branding, reinvention, and strategic positioning; on-line resources include program descriptions, ar |
| Futurist_com Offers keynote speeches, seminars, scenario building and preferred future workshops; site contains many articles on future trends, ideas on business, space, and science fiction. |
| Gene_Stephens,_Futurist_ Includes background, clients, "creative futures" (a brief overview on futures thinking), and "food for thought" (examples of emerging change). |
| Global_Future_Forum A fee-based service linking futurists, decision-makers, and business leaders in order to inject foresight into decision-making and expand available foresight tools; organizes conferences, research rep |
| Global_Options Offers resources related to futures studies, peace studies, systems studies, conflict resolution, and spirituality; essays, course descriptions, course modules and workshops, and an introduction to fu |
| Infinite_Futures__Foresight_Training_and_Facilitation Includes futures research-based presentations, essays, course syllabi, research tools, and group process exercises to enhance foresight in communities, organizations, and individuals. |
| Jim_Pinto Consultant with expertise in industrial automation offers technology foresight, business strategies, angel investing, and merger and acquisition services; site features extensive essay collection and |
| Joseph_Coates_Consulting_Futurist,_Inc_ Offers services including consulting, articles, workshops and speeches about the study of the future; extensive online resources list. |
| Karl_Albrecht_International Lectures and workshops to improve thinking, leadership, and awareness of emerging change; includes lecture and workshop descriptions, books, videos, and downloads of powerpoint slides. |
| Leading_Futurists_LLC Services include research on emerging issues of change, scenario building, keynote speeches, workshops, and strategy formulation; site includes "Insight" essays on futures thinking. Principals: Jenni |
| Marcel_Bullinga Offers presentations and workshops focussed on emerging Internet trends and their impacts on organizations; site contains article reprints and description of "Future Check" workshops. |
| Planet-TECH_Associates Designs community and policy innovations for social, economic, and environmental progress; creates interactive websites for community learning and decision-making; and builds on-line futures learning |
| Prospectiva Offers training in foresight, emerging issues analysis, scenario building and planning, and in futures-focussed curriculum resource development for teachers, including an on-line interactive module fo |
| Prospektiker Basque futures consulting firm specializing in economic development and local and urban planning using trends-based impact assessment and strategy formation. |
| Roger_Dennis_-_Technology_Strategy_and_Research Technological forecasting, research, and strategy services focussed on the computer and telecommunications sectors; contact information and link to example work on client's site. |
| Social_Technologies Offers services in technology foresight, forecasting, scenario planning, vision, creativity, and leadership; includes examples of typical "Global Lifestyle" briefs. |
| Van_der_Werff_Global Concentrates on global trends that affect business and the future of the workplace. Offers critical trends listed by sector, a strategic planning model, articles, and an annotated bibliography. |
| The_Vision_Center_for_Futures_Creation A Swedish consulting and training company specializing in studies of the future; includes a futurist "learning style inventory," articles, an on-line newsletter (free registration required), and book |
| Weiner,_Edrich,_Brown,_Inc_ Firm founded in 1977 identifies and evaluates emerging issues of change for strategic management. Services include research, workshops, and speaking; the "From Our Files" section offers synopses of pa |
| Z_+_Partners Specializes in emerging futures and forecasting as bootstraps to ideation, design innovation, and branding; articles, interviews, book reviews and blog available on-line. |
| Vivaphilosophy Portal to Western and Eastern philosophy. Covers news, references, branches, and philosophers. |
| Alexander,_Bevin US military historian, strategist, and author. With excerpts, articles, commentary and a Q&A section dealing with military history and foreign affairs. |
| Alf_J__Mapp,_Jr_ Showcases the works of this historian and scholar. |
| Arazi,_Doron Israeli historian, journalist and author. Recent articles, primarily in German, available. |
| Bacon,_Jacqueline An independent author of books on African-American history, media criticism, African-American and women's rhetoric, and other topics. Biography, bibliography, and reviews available. |
| Carley,_Michael_Jabara Contains information on this historian's publications, courses, editorial, and publishing activities. |
| Catholic_Encyclopedia__John_Emerich_Edward_Dalberg_Acton,_Baron_Acton Biography of the historian best-known for his view of the corruption power causes. |
| Fernand_Braudel_Center_for_the_Study_of_Economies,_Historical_Systems,_and_Civilizations Binghamton University center which continues Braudel's study of large-scale social change over long periods of historical time. Papers, description of scholarly activities and events, and organization |
| Gilbert,_Sir_Martin Winston Churchill's official biographer and a leading historian of the modern world. Includes biography, bibliography and lecture schedule. |
| The_Historians_and_Their_Books A listing of major historians, with bibliographies. |
| J__Kelly_Robison,_PhD Contains American history texts, an extensive collection of historical documents and information to help students understand the process of doing history, including writing research papers and taking |
| Jones,_Tod_E_ Lecturer in the Department of English, University of Maryland, with a particular interest in the history and theology of the Christian Church in Victorian England. |
| Kertzer,_David Information on the books and other professional activities of this historian and anthropologist, the Paul Dupee University Professor of Social Science at Brown University. |
| Luker,_Ralph Historian specializing in Civil Rights Movement and African-American history. Articles, bibliography, and list of current projects provided, as well as weblog and C.V. |
| Mladjov,_Ian_S_R_ Recent papers, conference presentations, and articles. Also contains his collection of detailed chronological and genealogical lists of rulers, along with historical notes on the origin of the state, |
| Nell,_William_Cooper The life of the first African American historian, William Cooper Nell (1816-1874) |
| Raphael,_Ray Author of a trilogy of histories that reappraise the American Revolution. |
| Sanders,_Brandon Author of books about World War II and Olympic history. Site includes contact information, bibliography, and selected links. |
Alternative Futures Associates (AFA) is the leading provider of "futures
services" to the pharmaceutical industry. One of the unique features
of AFA is its ability to use leading-edge futures techniques to enhance
how well its pharmaceutical clients "see" the future and
how well clients are able to "create the future they prefer."
AFA helps clients understand the future better with all of its uncertainty
by using environmental scans, trend analysis, forecasts and scenario-based
planning processes. AFA tailors appropriate training, learning, and
planning activities to enable clients to more than just understand
the future, but to create their preferred future - the future that
is the best for all stakeholders.
