About
Mike Edholm has spent three decades advising corporations and institutions on strategy and foresight, with assignments spanning telecommunications, computing, industrial automation, and international development.
He ran Ericsson’s Silicon Valley corporate strategy outpost through the internet’s commercial explosion, flying more than two hundred thousand miles a year to deliver the industry’s standard story to executives on five continents. At Gartner, he built multi-year telecommunications scenarios used by carriers, vendors, and government entities. At IBM, he worked inside the acquisition pipeline of one of the world’s most prolific serial acquirers and taught its M&A playbook to other corporations. He co-founded Predicom, an early prediction-markets company, and applied trilemma-based scenario methods to national development planning in Burundi, Zambia, Namibia, and South Africa.
He now writes from Antibes, on the Côte d’Azur, where he is completing The Opaque Surprise, a book on the structure of technology transitions, and publishing an essay series on scenario planning methodology.