The Corporate Strategy Board
The Corporate Strategy Board is a membership of senior strategists from leading corporations around the world. Their charter is to uncover and profile leading practices in the formulation and execution of corporate strategy, and to chronicle the successes (and failures) of those who pioneer the most innovative and potentially pivotal approaches to strategy.
The Corporate Strategy Board has currently completed 3 highly regarded corporate venturing studies, on the following topics: "The New Venture Division" deals with the incubation of internally-generated ideas; a study on "Corporate Venture Capital" practices, managing equity for strategic returns; and "Staffing Corporate Venture Groups" which is relevant to both internal and external venturing. (Complete bibliographic entries are included in our "Articles and Books" section.)
Corporate Strategy Board publications are available exclusively to clients of the Corporate Strategy Board, whose research program is membership based. Non-members interested in obtaining more information about the Board should contact the firm's headquarters in Washington, D.C. (202/777-5000; www.corporatestrategyboard.com)
The Institute for the Future
Since 1968, Institute for the Future (IFTF) has helped clients make sense out of complexity. IFTF forecasts critical technological, demographic, and business trends and identifies unseen connections across boundaries to help our clients plan successfully for their future.
Based in Menlo Park, California on Sand Hill Road, known as the Wall Street of the West, IFTF is an independent, non-profit research firm specializing in long-term forecasting. IFTF uses a unique mix of research methods, including surveys and ethnography, trend identification and analysis, aggregation of expert opinion, and exercises of intuition. IFTF's research is of particular interest to corporate venturing groups and their parents as the look to leverage core capabilities and businesses into fertile market and industry adjacencies, as a landscape for planning innovation and growth iniatives.
IFTF clients include major corporations throughout North America, Europe, and Asia; government groups; and nonprofit organizations. (650/854-6322; www.iftf.org)
Paul Saffo, Director and Roy Amara Fellow, Institute for the Future
Paul is a leading technology forecaster studying long-term information technology trends and their impact on business and society. His essays have appeared in numerous publications, including The Harvard Business Review, Wired Magazine, Civilization Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and Fortune Magazine, as well as other more specialized periodicals. Paul is the author of Dreams in Silicon Valley and The Road From Trinity, both of which are available in Japan. He was a 1997 McKinsey Judge for the Harvard Business Review, and in the same year was named one of one hundred "Global Leaders for Tomorrow" by the World Economic Forum. Paul serves on a variety of boards and advisory panels, including the AT&T Technology Advisory Board, the World Economic Forum Global Issues Group, and the Stanford Law School Advisory Council on Science, Technology and Society. Paul holds degrees from Harvard College, Cambridge University, and Stanford University. IFTF is a 30-year old foundation that provides strategic planning and forecasting services to major corporations and government agencies. (www.saffo.com)
Technologic Partners
Technologic Partners is a publishing and services firm tracking the important strategic business and financial issues of high-technology. Technologic's newsletters and industry outlook conferences provide a unique perspective on where technology companies are going and where they're going wrong, as well as how they're building businesses, developing markets, and advancing innovation. Technologic was founded by Richard A. Shaffer, one of the industry's most respected analysts. His expertise in emerging growth companies and venture investing has gained him a broad following among key industry executives, entrepreneurs and visionaries, leading venture capitalists, top investment bankers, and large insurance companies, as well as Wall Street brokers, securities analysts, and investment fund managers. Dick Shaffer writes the "Watch This Space" column for Fortune magazine, and is editor-in-chief of Fortune's semi-annual technology guides. He is also editorial director of The Wall Street Journal Technology and Health Care Summits. (www.technologicpartners.com)
Publications
ComputerLetter is the leading newsletter on the business issues of technology and is considered to be an essential source for timely insight, unbiased business analysis, and informed opinion on developments, strategies, and trends in technology. VentureFinance, which includes the Venture Capital Yearbook, with its in-depth coverage of high technology venture capital deals and dealmakers, provides comprehensive data and insightful analysis on issues affecting investors, financial executives, and entrepreneurs. Its focus is money, primarily equity capital-providing an inside look at the information and life sciences companies that are getting financing and the investment strategies behind the deals. VentureWire, our newest newsletter, is published every business day. It's an e-mail filled with new money, new deals, new people, M&A, VC fund news, and VC personnel moves. It provides you the headlines, and a brief on the news behind those headlines, and links to read more about it. Technologic also offers the The VentureWire Index, the only daily index available which tracks the overall pace and trajectory of venture investing. More specific indices tracking investment in industry sectors and regions are available to VentureWire Professional subscribers.
Conferences
Technologic Partners has been producing highly respected, investment-oriented conferences since 1985, where industry leaders, investors, and entrepreneurs gather for market analysis and personal networking with the key players of the day. For each conference, up to 100 of the most promising private companies in a key market area are invited to present their business plans. The presenting companies are selected from Technologic's proprietary database of thousands of venture-backed companies. The goal is to provide an independent forum in which the best startups can tell their stories, and to provide a timely context through speeches and panels that will help investors evaluate those stories.
Nanyang Ventures P/L
Christopher C Golis
Executive Chairman, Nanyang Ventures P/L
L5, NAB House, 255 George Street, Sydney NSW 2000
bh (+61-2) 9247 4866 fax (+61-2) 9241 1087
(www.nanyang.com.au/)
IBF Corporate Venturing and Strategic Investing Conference
Market leaders continually need to innovate and transform their
businesses to succeed - accordingly these companies must find new ideas
from inside and outside their companies. for corporations facing this
challenge, this conference provides a unique opportunity to network with
THE industry leaders. Attendees will learn about fundamentals in
successful corporate investing, strategic alliance and commercialization
programs. This conference will provide an opportunity for strategic
investors to network - sharing program strategies and opportunities
related to portfolio companies.
(IBF Corporate Venturing and Strategic Investing Conference)
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