II. Global List of Foresight Organizations – Twelve Regions of the Global Village
Country Detail and Region Codes:
- North America (NA) USA, Canada, Greenland, Bermuda, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands
- Mexico and Central America (MCA) Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Other Caribbean Nations
- South America (SA) Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, Chile, Argentina
- Europe (EU) EU member states and EU-oriented nations, including Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, and Bulgaria, and excluding Belarus
- Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, Oman, Yemen, Western Sahara, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt
- Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) Mauritania to South Africa (North to South), Senegal to Madagascar (East to West)
- Northern Eurasia (NU) Russia, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan
- China and Central Asia (CCA) China, Mongolia, DPRK/North Korea
- India and South Asia (ISA) India, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh
- Japan and East Asia (JEA) Japan, Republic of Korea/South Korea, Taiwan
- Southeast Asia (SEA) Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia
- Australia and Oceania (AO) Australia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, Micronesia
II. Global Foresight Organizations – A Starter List of 500 in Twelve Regions
The following pages offer a starter list of roughly five hundred noteworthy organizations doing innovation, management, or forecasting-oriented foresight work around the world. Our list is divided into the global regions depicted above. Our starter list is heavily US- and English-language centric. Please accept our apologies for that. We will try to increasingly correct this bias in future editions of the Guide.
There are an inspiring variety of organizational foresight activities today. As our digital platforms grow more powerful now every year, foresight professionals everywhere will increasingly be able to collaborate on problems and projects, post competitions, benchmark performance, teach each other methods, do experiments, start businesses, and advance our field in ways we can only imagine today.
We’ve weighted our list toward management and primary foresight consultancies, for those curious about gaining experience in foresight consulting, and for those who might have a project that could benefit from foresight consultants. Category numbers are rounded to the nearest ten. Where we know a foresight leader in these organizations, we’ve listed their name at the start of the description.
We hope this list inspires you to do your own further research. Want to help us expand it? Drop us a line, we’d love to work with you.
Research Tips for Finding Leading Foresight Orgs In Your Area of Interest
- Look for lists (Businessweek, Fast Company, Forbes, MIT Technology Review, Inc, Wired, etc.) of the most innovative, fastest growing, strategic, “smartest”, most foresighted companies or organizations. These firms are often disrupting their industries.
- Pay for LinkedIn Premium, and use Advanced Search with “Company Name” + “Foresight” “Forecasting” “Trend” “Scenarios” “Innovation” etc. to find foresight-driven individuals and business units in various industries, and their sizes and locations. Do the same on Google.
- Search within a company’s website “Site:company.com” + your favorite foresight words in quotations, to find foresight leaders, forecasters, creatives, and innovators to connect with at your company of interest.
