Company Profile

Founded in 1987, Technology Forecasters Inc. is a leading consulting and research firm specializing in manufacturing and environmental strategies for the global electronics manufacturing industry. TFI's team of 15 highly experienced analysts and consultants assist mid-sized and some of the world's largest high-tech companies with their most complex and demanding challenges for outsourcing, supply-chain, and profitable environmental compliance and leadership. TFI Supply Chain and TFI Environment consultants are equipped to answer many of today's strategic questions, such as:

  • Given economic conditions, how can I save millions of dollars from operations and at the same time reduce our company's environmental impact?
  • What are my peers doing to outsource aspects of their manufacturing? How satisfied are they with their outsourcing suppliers?
  • What global regions are optimal for manufacturing our products, given cost, customers, risk, and efficiency?
  • How do I ensure that my suppliers meet environmental and social-responsibility requirements?
  • What innovative supply-chain and logistics arrangements would manage risk, reduce wasted resources, and accelerate time to market?
  • What software and hardware products are best-suited for tracking product lifecycles anywhere in the world?
  • How can my company manage our suppliers such that we get their best performance?
  • Which global environmental regulations apply to my products and how can I comply most efficiently?
  • What design rules can we apply to see that our products are resource efficient and competitive?

TFI provides electronics companies with consulting services and workshops to help them establish and maintain successful, profitable business relationships across the supply chain and throughout the world. TFI provides a unique combination of information, consulting services, best-practice benchmarking research, and peer interaction. TFI has become the place where manufacturing, environmental and logistics professionals share information with peers and learn the latest trends and techniques.

In addition to its other world-class research and consulting activities, TFI is a recognized world leader in helping electronics manufacturers blend environmental responsibility with business profitably. TFI President Pamela J. Gordon published the landmark book Lean and Green on profitable environmental practices in 2001, and since then has been a recognized thought-leader through TFI's proprietary High-ROI Environmental Partnership practice.

TFI’s research, analytical and consulting professionals have been hand-picked from the executive and senior management ranks of the world’s most highly regarded electronics, logistics and supply-chain companies. TFI President Pamela J. Gordon and the TFI consultants have lived and worked in business-critical global regions: Europe and the Middle East, China and Japan, and the United States and Mexico.

TFI is also a publishing speaking powerhouse. Since 1987, the TFI consulting team has written and published nearly one thousand articles, columns, newsletters, blog postings, books, book chapters, and training materials. Many of these materials are published directly by TFI, while others are published by a wide range of publishing companies. Also since 1987, the TFI consulting team has given nearly 300 keynotes, speeches, workshops, and university lectures. To commission TFI President Pamela J. Gordon or other TFI Supply Chain and TFI Environment Consultants for keynote presentations and other speaking events, contact us.