A Portal on Digitalization

Consultancy and Market Research

01.11.1998 · Research Group on the Global Future

Andersen Consulting
http://www.ac.com

Andersen Consulting is a global management and technology consulting organisation. The consulting's primary research organization, the Center for Strategic Technology Research, explores the implications of convergence through several areas of inquiry. In addition, you can find a special section on electronic commerce on the website.

Booz Allen & Hamilton
http://www.bah.com

Booz Allen & Hamilton is a global management and technology consulting firm headquartered in McLean, Virginia, USA, that provides strategy, systems, operations, and technology services. Clients are primarily major international corporations and government agencies both in the United States and abroad.

Gartner Group
http://www.gartner.com/

Gartner Group is a leading IT market research and consulting firm for suppliers of information technology and the financial and investment communities. Furthermore it is a provider of market intelligence on global IT markets for semiconductors, computer systems, interactive information systems and networks, multimedia, telecommunications and IT services. It also provides clients with a wide range of products and services in the areas of IT advisory services.

Forrester Research
http://www.forrester.com

Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, Forrester is a leading independent research firm that helps companies assess the effect of technology change on businesses, consumers, and society. Forrester aims to show its clients how technology is going to change the way they do business and offers prescriptive guidance about what they should be doing about it. Forrester does this through research that adds insight and perspective to a business-focused review of emerging technologies.

Global Business Network
http://www.gbn.org

Global Business Network is a membership organization focused on the future comprising executives from many of the world's leading companies alongside individual members from the digerati world, business, science, the arts, and academia. Scenario-building is one of the main tasks of the GBN. Members of GBN have launched several important discussions about the developments in the cyberspace through their books and contributions in various media.

International Data Corporation
http://www.idc.com

Publishers of Computerworld, InfoWorld, MACWORLD, and The Internet FactBook, IDC provides information technology data, analysis, and consulting, as well as a global perspective on the IT market and technology trends. IDC's subsidiary, IDC/LINK, is a market research and consulting firm in the electronic services industry. IDC predicts the amount of commerce conducted over the Web will reach more than $400 billion by 2002.

Jupiter Communications
http://www.jup.com/

Jupiter Communications provides research and analysis of the consumer online industry with a wide range of reports, conferences, and services relating to online advertising. These include Banners and Beyond, a research report, AdSpend, a monthly data report, Webtrack, a monthly newsletter and the Online Advertising and Shopping Reports. Jupiter Communications established in 1986, has offices in New York City, USA, and London, England.

Network Wizards
http://www.nw.com

Network Wizards produces the often cited twice-yearly Internet Domain Survey, which counts the number of hosts on the Internet. The Survey is a barometer of the digital revolution. Good source for basic facts.