IIF - SAS Grant For the fifteenth year, the IIF, in collaboration and with financial support from SAS®, is proud to announce financial support for research on how to improve forecasting methods and business forecasting practice. The awards for the 2017-2018 year [...]
Recoupling Forecasting with Inventory Control and Supply Planning The Foresight Practitioner Conference North Carolina State University Institute for Advanced Analytics Raleigh, North Carolina, November 15-16, 2017 Speakers Our conference speakers will provide perspectives from their experience and research on how to reintegrate [...]
Call for papers Special Section on “Forecasting Issues in Developing Economies” International Journal of Forecasting Deadline for submission: July 17, 2017 Following the 21st IIF workshop in Washington, D.C., we are planning a special section on “Forecasting Issues in Developing Economies” in [...]
Recoupling Forecasting with Inventory Control and Supply Planning The Foresight Practitioner Conference North Carolina State University Institute for Advanced Analytics Raleigh, North Carolina November 15-16, 2017 Why focus on the forecasting process? Research has revealed that too often the forecasting process is [...]
Federal Forecasters Conference ~ The Potential for Big Data in Forecasting In the tradition of past meetings, FFC/2017 provided a forum where forecasters from federal agencies and other organizations can meet and discuss various aspects of forecasting. The conference organizers have posted [...]
Early registration deadline is 14 April 2017! Register now to save! 37th International Symposium on Forecasting, June 25-28, 2017 in Cairns, Australia Integrating academic research into practical applications is one of the hallmarks of the annual International Symposium on Forecasting (ISF) being [...]
22nd IIF Workshop: Predictive Energy Analytics in the Big Data World Cairns, Australia, June 22-23, 2017 ISEA 2017 (International Symposium on Energy Analytics) aims at bringing forecasting experts and practitioners together to share experiences and best practices on a wide range of important business [...]
Successful Workshop on Forecast Performance Measurement and Value Added The importance and relevance of this topic was clear from the excellent turnout of over one hundred participants. The speakers were drawn from the USA, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland and the UK, and were [...]
Note from the Editor, Spring 2017 issue of Foresight Since our first issue in 2005, Foresight has strived to serve up articles that unite the scholarship of our field’s academic researchers with the perspectives of experienced organizational practitioners, all the time emphasizing lessons [...]
Shari De Baets, Research Associate, Vlerick Business School How did you become a forecaster? I started working as a researcher on business research projects in 2010. One of the topics centered on decision-making and more specifically, the heuristics-and-biases tradition. While looking for literature [...]
