2nd International workshop on Forecasting for Social Good Call for Abstracts11-12 June 2020 Kedge Business School, Bordeaux, France Sponsored by the International Institute of Forecasters (IIF), the workshop on Forecasting for Social Good is now accepting abstracts, both oral and poster presentations. [...]
This Winter 2020 issue of Foresight—number 56 since the journal began in 2005—formally introduces a new section: Integrated Business Planning (IBP), the meaning of which is evolving from a term virtually synonymous with Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) to something far more [...]
The Democratising Forecasting workshop initiative, with support from the IIF, is expanding and will deliver four forecasting workshops per year for the National Health Service (NHS), United Kingdom, in collaboration with NHS-R community. Why forecasting for NHS Ensuring life-saving services are [...]
Professor Spyros Makridakis is renowned as one of the world’s leading forecasting experts and organizer of the Makridakis Competitions. On behalf of Professor Makridakis, Director of the Institute For the Future (IFF), University of Nicosia (UNIC) it is an honor and a pleasure [...]
About Kinaxis Companies around the world rely on RapidResponse, our cloud-based platform, to manage their supply chains, monitor risks and opportunities, and respond at the pace of change. At Kinaxis, we’re constantly breaking new ground, using new technology to push the limits [...]
Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Business Analytics and Forecasting The University of Bath School of Management are seeking to appoint a new colleague as a Lecturer in Business Analytics & Forecasting within the Information, Decisions and Operations Division (IDO). Applications are welcome from outstanding candidates [...]
The newest Foresight guidebook, Artificial Intelligence (AI), is now available. AI is the name commonly given to the capacity of machines for mimicking the human aptitude to reason, solve problems, and learn from experience. The impact of exponential advances in AI and [...]
MacroFor : the Macroeconomic Forecasting section of the IIF This new section, in line with the IIF's newly created sections, focusses on macroeconomic forecasting, comprising of GDP forecasting, inflation forecasting, macroeconomic nowcasting with large data sets, business cycles analysis, survey expectations, density forecasting, [...]
This 55th issue of Foresight opens with an article from Phillip Yelland, Zeynep Erkin Baz, and David Serafini of the Data Science/AI team at Target: Forecasting at Scale: The Architecture of a Modern Retail Forecasting System. The challenge of scale at Target [...]
The Board of Directors of the International Institute of Forecasting has appointed Prof. Pierre Pinson as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Forecasting starting October 2019. Pierre is Professor of Engineering at the Technical University of Denmark and has research interests in [...]