Why I Became a Forecaster? Almost 20 years ago, after graduating as an electrical and computer engineer and obtaining my MBA, I was trying to solve a forecasting problem I had at work. I was trying to determine new clients and their [...]
Why I became a forecaster, Peg Young It was a dark and stormy night….no, no – that’s the start of another story. This story starts in Lewiston, Maine, where I was attending Bates College, with plans to obtain a Bachelor’s in mathematics. Prior [...]
Robert Goodell Brown was the father of exponential smoothing. He died last week at the age of 90. Bob was an IIF Fellow, past IIF Director and a major contributor to the field of forecasting with his work on exponential smoothing and [...]
Please welcome the IIF in announcing a new Distinguished Researcher and Fellow to the Institute. Paul Goodwin is Professor of Management Science at the University of Bath. He has a PhD from Lancaster University and an MSc from the University of Warwick. His [...]
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 getting ready [...]
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 and practices [...]
Principles of Business Forecasting, published in July 2012 by Cengage, is a new book by Lancaster University Management School's Robert Fildes and Keith Ord of Georgetown University. Forecasting is important to almost all organisations, witness the problems encountered in the London 2012 Olympics. [...]
