The Futures Corporation

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We are concerned with FUTURES - those of people and the organizations employing them. Headquartered in beautiful Boise, Idaho, the firm has affiliates in several states and offers programs and services nationally and internationally.

From its origin in 1979, The Futures Corporation (TFC)has quietly grown into a nationally known firm specializing in strategic thinking about the future and especially how emerging challenges will impact people, productivity, performance, policy and prosperity. We are deeply involved with analysis and planning that impacts economic vitality and are particularly committed to those communities, businesses and voluntary agencies that face special challenges.

At TFC we help business leadersand public sector managers create a more certain future.Our analysis offers new insights about internal and external challenges that impact an organizations ability to adapt, perform and compete. Above all, we believe in the Future it is where public and private organizations will either thrive or perish. Our Prepared For Challenge process has guided business, government and voluntary organizations toward a more productive future for over 25 years.

There are no challenges quite like those facing managers in federal, state and local government. Whether an appointed or elected official, career professional, or mid-level manager, the issues of limited funding, growing public demand, aging infrastructure, and competing interests have combined to create enormously complex management issues. More critically, these converging variables will require very difficult choices for many years to come.

Our founder, Dr. John Luthy, has provided seminars to thousands of government leaders and published specialized guides and several landmark articles in Public Works Magazine, the APWA Reporter, and Public Management Magazine - the central publication of the International City/County Management Association.

For over twenty-five years, The Futures Corporation has been a quiet leader in public sector:

Dr. Luthy regularly shares his research, experiences and newest applications on the PublicFutures BLOG,keeping youup-to-date on the latest research and thinking on major trends, policy shifts, and evolving perspectives about the Future. Stay current with the very latest issues, opportunities, systems, and challenges that could impact your agency.

Take advantage of TFCs powerful research and analysis engine that powers its PublicFutures BLOG and learn about The Futures Corporations Law of Converging Variables - forces that will stress existing systems, personnel and policies.Be Prepared For Challenge - remaining at the forefront of a rapidly evolving public sector.

Don'tmiss an opportunity to understand emerging trends, relate to your own organization, and begin preparing for specific elements of the future before they actuallyhappen....

Share research, ideas, applications, and reflections on the PublicFutures BLOG.

Over the three decades it has served private business The Futures Corporation has helped hundreds of organizations in 44 different industries become more efficient, competitive, productive and profitable.

Our focus is twofold. We want our clients to be clear about their own capability and capacity to compete in their markets and to understand, through our Business Diagnostic and Organization Mapping processes, the most direct path to success. Secondly, we are concerned about the Future and want every client to fully understand the converging variables that will potentially impact their customers, business, markets, and industry.

Clients have included major corporations and small businesses in many industries, including:

TFC has worked with Fortune 50 multi-national corporations as well as with many mid-sized and small closely held businesses in virtually every industry.

Our founder, John Luthy, is the author of the acclaimed Prepared For Challenge Organization Development Series, which has helped guide many businesses to higher levels of efficiency and performance.

His feature article and subsequent reprint, Seven Dimensions of Employee Improvement and Development, has been reprinted in several countries and has changed the way many organizations view employee productivity, efficiency, and performance. His landmark keynote on Change, Challenge, and Strategic Leadership has been a powerful message at many business conferences.