Though the chance of drawing "Strategic Futures International" as a name (or "SFI" as a shorthand representation) is quite small, it has of course happened more than once so far. To avoid confusion and to help you locate the SFI you want, we offer the following links to the other SFI's we've found on the Web. We have no business or other relationship with any of them, nor do we specialize in the same way.

• Strategic Futures International, an Indiana company with the same name as ours. It describes itself as an "advanced technology company" that helps "business, organizations, and individuals to become proactive on the Internet." This SFI's services include "strategic on-line consulting" (to "shape [a] total approach to Internet commerce"), WWW page development, page administration, page hosting, graphics, technical support, and marketing, advertising, and public relations. This SFI can be reached at www.fwi.com/sfi.

• Strategic Futures, Inc. This company, located in Tarrytown, NY, is listed under "consulting services" in www.directresponse.com ("the World Wide Web source for direct marketers"). It can be reached by phone at or by fax at .

• The Santa Fe Institute. A quite remarkable research and educational organization, right at the leading edge in the multidisciplinary study of complex adaptive systems. Reach this SFI at www.santafe.edu.

• Swedish for Immigrants. This SFI is part of the Academy Bastad, which "has accepted the responsibility to educate the immigrants of the municipality of Bastad"--currently 79 students, mainly from Bosnia, but also from South America and Vietnam. Reach the program at www.bastad.se/sfi.html.

• St. Francis' Institution in Malacca, "the premier secondary school in the historical state of Malacca." It is building SFINet, apparently to link Franciscans around the world. Reach this SFI at www.cec.wustl.edu/bhgl/sfinet.html.

• Software Factory International Ltd. Located at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Incubator Center in Troy, NY, this SFI and its partners develop mapping software. Contact them at http://pb1.sfiltd.com/sfi_prod.htm.

• Service Federal d'Information. This SFI is the Federal Information Service of the Belgian Government. Go to http://belgium.online.be/belgium/frans/index21.htm

• Sea Fisheries Institute. This SFI is the first Polish scientific institution concerned with marine hydrography and biology. http://www.mir.gdynia.pl/historia.html

• Sylvain Faust Incorporated. This SFI, which describes itself as "the creator of the famous SQL-Programmer product" can be reached at http://sfi-software.com/. In conjunction with Link-Star, it also provides a search engine that it calls "the most accurate ... on the Internet"; go to http://www.linkstar.com/home/partners/sylvain-faust-inc-sfi.

• Societe Francaise d'Ichtyologie. This SFI, a 20-year old society within the French National Museum of Natural History, is at http://www.mnhn.fr/sfi/sfi.html.

• Sonic Frontiers Incorporated. This SFI makes the Sonic Frontiers TransDAC and the UltraJetterbug, which, it says, bring "the audiophile a viable, affordable and serious option to digital music reproduction." Details at http://www.sonicfrontiers.com/news/dyn_duo.html.

"Strategic futures" also turns up here and there. Again, we are not affiliated in any way, nor are we presently offering similar programs.

Examples:

• Strategic Futures Management. This firm, based in Wauwatosa, WI, is cited in the CTA list (www.ino.com/ctalist.html). It can be reached by phone or fax at .

• Strategic Futures (Alexandria, VA) is a company that provides "marketing services, management consulting, and communications services." It can be reached at (www.intr.net/raven/stratfut).

• The Strategic Futures Forum. This is a multiclient "forecasting exercise" intended "to provide members with a unique tool to aid mid to long term planning" in the paper and board sector. It is being conducted by Pira International, "a leading independent consultancy and research organisation, serving manufacturers, suppliers and users in the packaging, paper and board, printing and publishing industries." Located in the UK, Pira can be reached at www.

• Strategic Futures Forum. This is program to "explore business themes of strategic importance" at the interface of business and technology, principally Web-related. It is offered through CSC Index Vanguard, or Vanguard for short, which is part of the Index Research and Advisory Services organization within Computer Sciences Corporation. It can be reached at www.csc.com/CSC_Vanguard/u_vanguard.html.

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Strategic Futures International
In the U.S.: 955 L'Enfant Plaza, N., S.W., Suite 4000, Washington, DC 20045 Tel: Fax:
In the U.K.: 18th Floor, St. Alphage House, 2 Fore Street, London, EC2Y 5DA Tel: Fax: 0171 256 6930

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