About the Firm
About Competitive Futures
A center of excellence for collection, analysis, and dissemination of tactical and strategic intelligence, Competitive Futures was founded by Eric Garland in 2002. He continued the groundbreaking work of Joe Coates, advisor to the U.S. Congress and Department of Defense, in making the products and insights of national security analysts available to the private sector. The firm is going strong after more than 20 years, providing insights when they are most needed to decision makers in the United States and around the world at the highest levels of their organizations.
About Eric Garland
Career intelligence professional Eric Garland is the Executive Director of Competitive Futures. He founded the firm in 2002 to unify the disciplines of competitive intelligence and technology foresight to provide leaders of business and government with a more holistic view of their organizations’ futures. He is the author of Future Inc.: How Businesses Can Anticipate and Profit from What’s NEXT (AMACOM, 2007) and How to Predict the Future…and WIN! (Wallingford, 2011), as well as the host of Game Theory Today on YouTube.
Garland is known throughout the world as an educator, teaching everyone from school kids to CEOs how to think about their futures using the tools of the intelligence profession. He was elevated to the rank of Fellow in 2018 by the Council of Competitive Intelligence Professionals, the senior rank of the trade. He was diplomatically sanctioned in 2022 by Vladimir Putin for his work defending the United States against hostile foreign interference.
Our mission
Competitive Futures provides intelligence products which represent the highest level of integrity in terms of their impact on strategic decision making and the level of ethics used in their production and dissemination to clients.
Our history
Competitive Futures was founded in 2002 to offer private sector clients technology foresight based on proven methodologies normally only available to U.S. Government agencies. It has succeeded–helping improve organizations around the world to correctly perceive the future and how they can shape it.