About
DAVID M. MANSHEL is an information scientist and futurist who incubates purpose and sustainable initiatives that improve the quality of life.
Manshel is an Affiliate, Program on Information Resources Policy (PIRP), JFK School of Government, Harvard University; and the sole information and futurist participant, Harvard University WCFIA 50th Fellows’ Alumni Conference – Solving the World’s Most Intractable Problems - and to the State of Wisconsin gubernatorial commission on the reinventing of government: Wisconsin: 21st Century.
He pioneered the first advertising uses cable television on ESPN and USA Network and the first commercial sponsorships of Dow Jones’ news retrieval services with its Blue Sky Group for Fidelity Investments while in management with Hill Holliday and BBDO advertising agencies.
As a competitiveness pioneer, he founded and grew INTELLIQUEST® and IQ INC, the world’s first Internet-based commercial information agencies™, providing overnight, customized intelligence briefings and alerts to professionals in 34 US states, Mexico and Canada - promoted worldwide.
His clients have realized up to 85% productivity and 53% revenue gains, 833% ROI and 100% payback in 30 days.
Manshel has advised top management at American Express, McGraw- Hill, McCann Erickson, Allied Signal, Time Warner, Goldman Sachs, Spalding, Fidelity Investments, Johnson & Johnson, Phillips Petroleum, NEC, Business Marketing, Teradyne, State Street Research, Liberty Mutual, ITT/Sheraton and USDA/US Forest Service.
Manshel has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Industry Week, ADWEEK, Providence Journal, Boston Business Journal and by Federal Express Corporation; and has been published in The Christian Science Monitor, European Business Report, Editor & Publisher, by the Association of National Advertisers, and in the US Congressional Record.
The Polar Bear Mystique
The polar bear opts not to use force to thrive – relying instead on intelligence, foresight, patience, and timing – seeing opportunities in sea-changes from which sustenance surfaces – we wait patiently – gauging the precise moments to capitalize. In adopting the powerful, majestic polar bear as our symbol, we affirm our mission to apply wisdom and creativity - preemptively gaining advantages for our stakeholders. We provide prescient strategic counsel to innovators, brands, corporations, governments, and associations facing persistent, pervasive and complex, tectonic challenges. If your mission is to change the world for good, we invite the challenge.
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