Technology impacts all aspects of business. A business's mastery of technology determines its success or failure. Wouldn't it be good to know the direction and rate of change of technology important to your business -- to be able to forecast technological change and take advantage of the change before your competitors? Wouldn't you like to be warned of changes that could negatively affect your business before your competitors? Wouldn't that be almost "unfair" competitive advantage?

The good news is that you can forecast technological change. Contrary to popular belief, technology does not burst onto the business scene unexpectedly. There are signals of the change. And, the tools and techniques of technology forecasting pickup those signals of change, much like radar detects aircraft long before they are present.

There are four different types of technology forecasting methods, and we are experts in all:

• Surveillance
  
• Trend Analysis
  
• Expert Opinion
  
• Combinative