Welcome to Harbor 

Founded in 1984, Harbor Research, Inc. has more than twenty years of experience in providing strategic consulting and research services that enable our clients to understand and capitalize on disruptive opportunities in emergent markets. In our history, the firm has provided guidance to a wide range of technology suppliers and adopters through major market discontinuities. 

From the advent of automation in the 1980s; the shift to client/server and distributed computing architectures in the 1990s; or the emergence of E-Business via the Internet in the early part of this century, Harbor has established a track record of helping companies achieve tangible, high-impact results in hundreds of engagements.  We have proven experience and expertise in applying rigorous analytics and effective facilitation to devise solutions to complex issues, giving executives the answers they need to make critical business decisions with greater certainty.

The firm has established a unique competence in developing business strategy for the convergence of embedded device computing and global networking—the phenomenon we call the "Pervasive Internet”. The emergence of the Pervasive Internet is unleashing an age of "living intelligence" and “smart services”enabled by networked devices. The opportunities and challenges driven by the Pervasive Internet are profound and go to the heart of how companies perceive the markets they are in, how they organize themselves and how they approach business opportunities. Harbor Research's extensive consulting and analysis experience provides clients an unparalleled perspective on the impact of the Pervasive Internet and Smart Services on strategy and business processes.