Glen Allmendinger
Harbor Research
Founder and President
Glen is the founder and President of Harbor Research, a strategy consulting and technology
research firm based in Boulder Colorado and Zurich Switzerland. Glen has been responsible
for managing Harbor and all of its consulting and research activities since its inception, has co-authored several pio-neering articles on smart systems and services and has spoken at over 100 industry events focused on machine-to-machine (M2M), Smart Systems and
the Internet of Things.
Harbor is a strategy and technology research firm that works with leading technology innovators, product OEMs and service providers. We bring together a unique combination of domain knowledge, facilitation processes and an extended community of partners and expertise that enables our clients to discover, design and develop smart systems and services.
Glen has consulted to a broad spectrum of technology developers as well as diverse product manufacturers, assisting them with strategy and market development for new smart product, systems and services opportunities. The firm has participated in pioneering consulting work in the Smart Build-ings, Healthcare, Retail, Transportation, Energy and Industrial arenas help-ing clients to determine the scale and structure of emerging opportunities,
competitive positioning and design of new business models.
Since founding Harbor in 1984, Glen has actively sought out clients whose strategic and business development mode exhibits a desire to drive disrup-tion and manage change effectively, both in their organization and across their relationships in the marketplace. He believes these clients are the foun-dation of Harbor’s community of forward looking players who have benefit-ed most directly from the breadth of knowledge and process skills embod-ied in the firm. The relationships and interactions he has helped foster have served as a platform for deep insight and value creation for Harbor.