Len Tashman, Editor, previews the Summer issue of Foresight Clarity and effectiveness of communication are key to success – so says a recent survey by the National Association of Business Economists (NABE), which reported that industry leaders and hiring managers considered communication [...]
Forecasting with R: A practical workshop | Nikolaos Kourentzes Together with Fotios Petropoulos, we gave a workshop on producing forecasts with R, at the International Symposium on Forecasting, 2016. You can find the material of the workshop here. The workshop notes assume knowledge of [...]
Worst Practices in Forecasting: Today's Mistakes to Tomorrow's Breakthroughs Join us for 1.5 days of top-notch professional development at the 2016 Foresight Practitioner Conference, presented by Foresight: The International Journal of Forecasting and the Institute for Advanced Analytics on the campus of North [...]
Predictive Energy Analytics in the Big Data World Cairns, Australia, June 22-23, 2017 ISEA2017 (This post is syndicated from Hyndsight) This will be a great conference, and it is in a great location — Cairns, Australia, right by the Great Barrier [...]
The 18th IIF Workshop took place in Milano, Italy on May 12-13. The workshop was organized by Politecnico di Milano, in collaboration with the IIF on the topic of “Forecasting New Products and Services: Research and Applications.” The workshop’s goal was to stimulate forecasting research [...]
How did you become a forecaster? My path to forecasting was more like a maze than a straight line. In 2005, I joined North Carolina State University’s Electrical Engineering doctoral program. Halfway through my PhD study, in January 2008, I started working [...]
36th International Symposium on Forecasting, Santander, Spain The early registration deadline for ISF 2016 is quickly approaching! The deadline for discounted registration fees is 15 May 2016. Learn more about the ISF, the beautiful location of Santander, Spain, forecasting workshops and more [...]
Following the recent 2016 elections for the IIF Board of Directors, the IIF is delighted to announce the results of the successful candidates elected onto the IIF Board. The elected directors are: Nuno Crato, University of Lisbon, Portugal Laurent Ferrara, Banque de France, France [...]
The Foresight team is pleased to announce SAS as the sole Gold-level Sponsor of the 2016 Foresight Practitioner Conference, being held October 5-6 in cooperation with the Institute of Advanced Analytics at North Carolina State University. Support from our sponsors will allow [...]
Supply Chain Forecasting | European Journal of Operational Research In this paper the authors argue that academic research in Supply Chain Forecasting (SCF) has tended to neglect some issues that are important in practice. Correspondingly, in areas of practical relevance, sound theoretical [...]
