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39th International Symposium on Forecasting

39th International Symposium on Forecasting

The International Institute of Forecasters (IIF) will be hosting their annual conference in Thessaloniki, Greece, from 16-19 June 2019.

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Posted on 2018-11-02Categories NewsTags forecasting, iif, isf, symposium
Economic forecasts may again be blind

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.

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Posted on 2018-01-202018-01-20Categories NewsTags calamity, economic, failure, forecasting, market, metrics, models
38th International Symposium on Forecasting

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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Posted on 2017-10-29Categories NewsTags forecasting, iif, isf, symposium
Why experts often get predictions wrong

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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Posted on 2017-09-05Categories GeneralTags expert, forecasting, prediction, time series
Machine learning to make capacity planning decisions

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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Posted on 2017-05-192017-05-19Categories NewsTags capacity, forecasting, learning, machine, planning
What’s Wrong with Demand Forecasting

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.

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Posted on 2016-03-252016-03-27Categories NewsTags accuracy, error, forecasting, quality, uncertainty
Three ways to give forecasters a boost

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!

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Posted on 2015-05-192015-05-19Categories News, ResearchTags accuracy, competition, factors, forecasting, improvement
“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

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

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