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“Sales Forecasting by reps is dead”

“Sales Forecasting by reps is dead”

Optimism and lateral thinking are the hallmark of a “closer” and the chief attributes of a lousy forecaster, one of the great paradoxes of sales.

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Posted on 2015-04-282015-04-28Categories NewsTags analytics, forecasting, predictive, sales
Executive S&OP: Practical Thinking

Executive S&OP: Practical Thinking

Often the biggest obstacles to S&OP excellence stems from complexity: difficulty gathering data, too many meetings, a hard-to-govern process, or difficulty analyzing key data.

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Posted on 2015-04-162015-04-16Categories NewsTags executive, forecasting, operations, planning, sales
Lokad adds forecasting with quantile grids

Lokad adds forecasting with quantile grids

Big data solutions provider Lokad has introduced its second forecasting breakthrough. Quantile grids do not provide one demand forecast per product, but provide the entire probability distribution for (nearly) all possible futures.

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Posted on 2015-03-052015-03-05Categories News, Software

Improve forecast accuracy with signals intelligence

Past research has found that publicly available data can be used to accurately forecast events such as political crises and disease outbreaks.

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Posted on 2015-02-16Categories News, ResearchTags communication, crisis, events, outbreak, signals

Predicting events using machine learning

Kira Radinsky has garnered international recognition for her work forecasting real-world events, like disease outbreaks and riots.

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Posted on 2015-02-13Categories News, SoftwareTags forecasting, models, prediction

Prediction isn’t a hopeless enterprise

It’s possible to get better at forecasting. Research offers some insights into the factors that make a difference to become a “super forecaster”.

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Posted on 2015-02-032015-02-03Categories News, ResearchTags accuracy, forecasting, prediction, research

Complexity increases forecast error

Complex models are more popular than simple ones among researchers, forecasters, and clients. The popularity of complexity may be due to incentives.

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Posted on 2015-01-302015-01-30Categories News, ResearchTags complex, model, research, simple

35th ISF: Frontiers in Forecasting

The International Symposium on Forecasting will be held in Riverside, California in June 2015. This will be the 35th year of this conference, attracting the world’s leading forecasting researchers, practitioners, and students.

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Posted on 2014-10-222015-01-30Categories Events, NewsTags conference, iif, isf, symposium

Collaborative Forecasting in the Cloud

Automatic Forecasting Systems, Inc., a pioneer in forecasting and time series technology, is announcing the launch of a Cloud Based Collaborative Forecasting Solution.

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Posted on 2014-04-032015-01-30Categories News, SoftwareTags cloud, collaborative, software

Workshop and Certification in Mumbai

Demand Planning Net is proud to bring the popular two day workshop on Demand Planning and Sales Forecasting to India on February 20-21, 2014 at the Mumbai Hilton.

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Posted on 2014-01-232015-01-30Categories Training & CertificationTags certification, training, workshop

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