The International Institute of Forecasters (IIF) will be hosting their annual conference in Thessaloniki, Greece, from 16-19 June 2019.
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Economic forecasts may again be blind
In the current artificially propped market environment, the economic forecasts based on real economic, soft and financial indicators may fail massively.
38th International Symposium on Forecasting
The International Institute of Forecasters (IIF) will be hosting their annual conference in Boulder, USA in June 2018.
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Why experts often get predictions wrong
One of the problems with economic forecasting is that a small change in a few variables can make predictions almost impossibly complex. The maths can quickly become complicated.
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Machine learning to make capacity planning decisions
Amazon has developed machine-learning driven models on how to forecast demand for its services and deploy infrastructure accordingly.
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What’s Wrong with Demand Forecasting
A growing number of companies says their forecast accuracy, service levels and inventory efficiency metrics have hit a ceiling that they just can’t get past.
Three ways to give forecasters a boost
Need to boost forecast accuracy? Three factors have huge impact on the predictions: training, teams and tracking. It’s time to tee up!
“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.
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.
Predicting events using machine learning
Kira Radinsky has garnered international recognition for her work forecasting real-world events, like disease outbreaks and riots.