The Fall 2016 Foresight Practitioner Conference, October 5-6, 2016, Raleigh, North Carolina Foresight has teamed up with the Advanced Analytics Institute at North Carolina State University (NCSU) in Raleigh to offer a tantalizing 1.5-day conference: Worst Practices in Forecasting: Today’s Mistakes to Tomorrow’s Breakthroughs The greatest [...]
This 39th issue of Foresight features a special section on forecasting support systems (FSS) developed by our FSS Editor Fotios Petropoulos. His article Forecasting Support Systems: Ways Forward highlights three main areas for improvement: better utilization of open-source software and Web-based features, adoption of important methods [...]
Forecasting - Geoff Allen and Robert Fildes have recently contributed an on-line bibliography in forecasting for Oxford University Press: Fildes, R. & Allen, P.G. (2015), in Oxford Bibliographies in Management. Ed. R. Griffin. New York: Oxford University Press. The history of forecasting [...]
The IIF is saddened to report the news of the passing of Robert Goodrich, an IIF Fellow and leader in the field of forecasting. Bob was the President of Business Forecast Systems Inc., USA. He was recognized for his sustained development of [...]
The deadline date for applications is September 30, 2015. For the thirteenth year, the IIF, in collaboration with SAS®, is proud to announce financial support for research on improving forecasting methods and business forecasting practice. The award for this year will be [...]