Bemae Group is a technology and strategic foresight consultancy. We help organizations plan ten, twenty-five, even fifty years ahead — without losing sight of the work in front of them today.
Most consultancies pick a lane — tech, strategy, or policy — and stay in it. Bemae built its entire practice at the intersection of all four, on purpose.
Most consultants hand you a generic roadmap. We build assessments, implementation, and training around how your organization actually works.
Most firms plan for next year. We help you design for the next ten, twenty-five, even fifty — because the organizations still standing that far out started preparing today.
We carry foresight into classrooms, too. As Malcolm X put it, "education is the passport to the future" — tomorrow belongs to whoever prepares for it today.
Most tech consultants leave policy to someone else. We speak for the voices too often left out of the room — because, as Maya Angelou put it, settling for normal means "you'll never know how amazing you can be."
"Every crisis has both its dangers and its opportunities" — and which one wins out depends on how you respond.— Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a lesson Bemae returns to with every client
Every tradition that has endured did it by planning beyond its own lifetime. We bring that same long view to technology, policy, and organizational strategy — for clients who refuse to be caught off guard by the future.
Every client relationship is custom-built. These are the shapes that work tends to take.
Hands-on support for the technology decisions that can't wait.
Is your organization built for the demands of the next decade — not just this one? We help you find out, and close the gap.
No two clients get the same plan. We package and design the engagement around what will actually move you forward.
Pick a horizon. This is roughly how our thinking changes the further out we look.
Stabilize the systems already under pressure. This is triage — and it has to come first.
Build the infrastructure your growth will need before you need it — so you're not rebuilding while running.
The next generation inherits the decisions made today. We help you make ones worth inheriting.
This is where strategic foresight stops being a planning exercise and starts becoming legacy.
"A futurist," he says, "is just a dope term for someone who cares about the future enough to plan for it."
Over twenty years of federal, private, and corporate IT experience sit behind every plan Bemae writes. A Jackson Public Schools alum himself, Dr. Burse holds a PhD in Strategic Foresight from Regent University and sits on the board of The Bean Path, part of Jackson's growing tech corridor. He calls the plays, organizes the team, and adjusts when the unexpected shows up — because in this line of work, it always does.
Read Dr. Burse's full story →A strategic-foresight and technology program for grades 3rd through 12th, run by Bemae in partnership with the Jackson Medical Mall since January 2020.
The Young Futurists Project started as an innovation hub built on a simple idea: the future of health gets shaped by the technologists, creators, and advocates a community raises — not just the systems it builds. As the program's Foresight Instructor, Dr. Burse helped fold strategic foresight, emerging technology, and trend literacy into a broader STEAM curriculum that also touches entrepreneurship, design, and the arts. More than 625 students in Jackson have come through the program so far, with new cohorts joining each year through afterschool and summer sessions.
"We do it. We just don't know we're doing it."— Dr. Creston Burse, on strategic foresight in the African-American community, in RWJF's The Futures We Create
The Young Futurists Project drew support through a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant, and Dr. Burse's work is featured in the Foundation's national report, The Futures We Create: Democratizing the Imagination of the Future.
Read the report →A sample of who we've partnered with across healthcare, education, real estate, and advocacy.
Change doesn't arrive on someone else's schedule — "we are the ones we've been waiting for," and becoming the change we seek starts with deciding to act.— President Barack Obama
You may not see a crisis coming. We're trained to. Let's talk about where you want to be in ten years — and what it'll take to get there.