Christoph Bergmeir, Granada University: Two months ago I finished my PhD in Computer Science at Granada University, Granada, Spain. My PhD stipend (which I still have until July) allows me to undertake funded short-term research stays, and on this basis … Continue reading
Join us for this live webinar on June 20 at 11:00 AM EDT to explore a successful approach to improving the overall effectiveness of your forecasting process.Have you heard about forecast value added (FVA)? Instead of focusing on forecast accuracy, FVA puts … Continue reading
S&OP and Collaborative Forecasting: Committing to Better Results, co-produced with Foresight and The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business The 2013 Forecast Practitioner Conference will take place from September 25-26, 2013 in Columbus, Ohio, USA. Foresight and The Ohio State University … Continue reading
In this live, complimentary webinar, Paul Goodwin discusses steps you can take to improve trust and reduce dysfunctional behavior in forecasting. You’ll walk away with knowledge of how to eliminate — or at least minimize — the element of mistrust … Continue reading
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Pam Stroud, Business Director International Institute of Forecasters +1.781.234.4077 isf@forecasters.org www.forecasters.org Forecasting with Big Data 33rd International Symposium on Forecasting, June 23-26, 2013 in Seoul, Korea Boston, MA, March 15, 2013 – Integrating academic research into … Continue reading
Why I Became a Forecaster In the last semester of my Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) at Monash University, I received an offer of employment with one of the major banks in Australia (the ANZ bank). At the time, I was … Continue reading
Certified Demand Forecasting Professional Training & Competitive Cases Workshop, Shanghai Demand Driven Forecasting invites demand professionals from various industries to share mindset, operation process and experiences of practice. The depths of the sharing plus the previous systematic professional training combine theories … Continue reading
There will be a Forecasting Stream of Special Sessions at the 26th EURO-INFORMS European Conference on Operational Research, July 1-4, 2013 in Rome, Italy. For more information, http://www.euro-2013-forecasting-stream.com/
Man vs wild data, Published on 7 February 2013 Keynote address. Young Statisticians Conference 2013. Abstract: For 25 years I have been an intrepid statistical consultant, tackling the wild frontiers of real data, real problems and real time constraints. I have faced problems ranging from linguistics … Continue reading
The Winter 2013 issue of Foresight features a pair of articles on some very practical problems that forecasters face: Forecasting to Meet Demand is a virtual tutorial on dealing with problem data, special events, judgmental overrides of automatic forecasts, and … Continue reading