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Change is happening at an increasing pace. Newer technology replaces new technology. Global competition appears in local markets and changes not only the market but value chains. Customers demand more innovation from their partners and providers, changing the face of collaboration. Knowledge of and preparation for the future is a must for survival.

The HBMG Strategic Insights and Futures (SI&F) team provides a range of services to help you focus on the right future path for your organization. Experience across a range of industries and technologies has prepared our team to provide insight into how multiple technologies will impact your organization or region in such areas as digital convergence, collaboration, nanotech / biotech / infotech / neurotech fusion, and smart devices.

Our team delivers services for:

Consulting

Speaking

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Future Perspectives

To start on the path to incorporate the future into strategic and tactical processes, an organization must be aware of the impact of future trends and future events in order to shift its focus from the present.

HBMG SI&F has a range of proven methodologies to guide you to:

Realize the importance of the future
Jump start a future-oriented strategic planning project or process
Generate fresh, innovative ideas for immediate exploitation

We provide Major Trends and Disruptors Studies, facilitate Grand Challenges workshops, conduct Group Ideation Sessions using advanced brainstorming methods, give talks on the world of the future, and hold classes and seminars on techniques and approaches to planning for technology impacts.

Opportunity Focusing

Organizations that realize that they must refocus their current assets—physical, financial, intellectual, and motivational—on the future need to take a disciplined approach.

Our team has helped numerous organizations and regions:

Enter emerging opportunities earlier with less risk and greater profit
Set up processes to master technological change
Create a group to seek, evaluate, and choose among new opportunities
Apply crosscuts to increase opportunity and reduce cost and risk

HBMG’s SI&F team provides services in forecasting, market assessments, terrain maps, regional opportunity analysis for economic development, industry focus sessions, disruptive technology tracking, and collaborative process training.

Innovation Management

Invention creates the spark, ingenuity fuels it but innovation is the fire. An organization does not manage just technology anymore, it harnesses innovation through its labs, its developers, its marketers, its customers, its partners, and its business team.

HBMG’s SI&F team helps organizations:

Maintain or restore competitiveness through innovation
Expand capability to profit from exploiting technology
Establish a base of process, knowledge, and culture to be more innovative and future-focused
Attain better results through collaboration within the organization and with partners

We steer you towards these objectives by providing technology assessments, technology transfer process evaluations, roadmap facilitation, business incubator assessments, future studies organizational processes, and technology management education. Additionally, our eManagers platform is a foundational element for effective technology management.

Actionable Strategies

All of our services build up to the creation of a strategy that can be acted upon and be successful, otherwise they are useless. Picking an actionable strategy is the first step, followed by using innovative ways to implement the strategy, tracking the inputs and outputs of the strategy based on the view of the future created in the earlier stages, and adapting to changes.

Our team works with you to:

Create an actionable strategy with profitability and risk mitigation
Find a faster return on the investment in the strategy
Coordinate the strategy’s elements throughout the organization and with partners
Make you more resilient to change

HBMG’s SI&F offers extraordinary services in strategy maps, strategic foresight, stakeholder analysis, impact analysis, scenario planning, weak signal analysis (wildcards), red teaming, business simulation games, trends and drivers identification (force field analysis), and risk management assessment.

Success in each of these areas makes the future yours. Whether you are just beginning to appreciate the impact the future will have on you or you already have actionable strategies in place, HBMG’s SI&F can provide the insights to make you more profitable and future-proof.

A number of different types of organizations turn to HBMG for guidance on the right Strategic Framework to harness the future. State and federal government agencies, large, medium, small, and startup companies, educational institutions, and industry associations internationally, at all levels of technological sophistication, benefit from the methodologies, tools, and techniques our team shares with its clients. Call on our world recognized futurists to challenge your staff and create well-planned strategies.

Our team is unique because:

We have an extensive toolkit of techniques for understanding the future, and it can be taught to your people.
We use frameworks based on the power of multiple views of the future exploited by self-forming teams
We have created a deep, propriety knowledge data base
We lever an extended network of relationships to focus knowledge of industry, technology, and business process on your challenge

HBMG has membership in the Association of Professional Futurists.

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Prepare for tomorrow

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Collaboration

Collaboration is at the heart of Electronic Content Management. Effective collaboration allows people across the extended enterprise to circulate ideas, experiences and knowledge. Smart organizations look to collaboration technologies in order to increase productivity, lower costs, and enhance existing IT resources. To maximize agility and responsiveness, companies today focus on improving collaboration among employees, partners, and customers. Organizations around the world and from varied industries use Electronic Content Management, or ECM technology to foster collaboration, implement vital process improvements, and to protect and retain mission-critical information.

HBMG Inc. is focused on providing a secure space for sharing ideas and maximizing the intelligence of multiple entities. HBMG has created the eManagers Collaboration Suite to do just this. eManagers allows you to share information anytime and anywhere. It automates document tracking and auditing, and helps teams meet objectives in a secure enclave. People can quickly form cross-functional project teams, capture shared knowledge, manage processes and meet project deadlines across geographic, departmental or company boundaries.

HBMG’s Collaboration Suite may be just the solution to conquer the pressures of changing markets, shrinking margins, and increasing competition.

Security

Protecting your organizations assets is more important and more difficult than ever before. Today's threat landscape comprises far more than DDoS attacks, viruses and worms. To protect against the broad array of internal and external threats, more companies are considering security programs that forge closer ties between the physical and logical security realms. The different security staffs have the same goal—protect enterprise assets and usually they exist as independent factions. The new economy of the convergence technology, budgetary realities and government initiatives are driving enterprises and agencies to question whether business as usual is hurting the bottom line. HBMG’s Security Practice helps companies bridge the gap between physical, data and logical security.