Foresight Long-Range Forecasting Editor Ira Sohn expands upon Paul Sabin?s recent book The Bet to describe ?the scholarly wager of the decade? and how it mirrored at the time a larger national debate between future-thinking optimists and pessimists. Copyright International Institute of...

The increasing popularity of PDAs, smartphones, tablet computers, and other mobile devices opens up new opportunities for communication and collaboration on business forecasts. As the authors tell us, mobile forecasting (m-forecasting) applications may streamline approaches to collaboration...

In a 2009 news article entitled ÒHow Did Economists Get It So Wrong?,Ó Paul Krugman wrote, ÒThe economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive- looking mathematics, for truth.Ó In this article, David Orrell asks if the same could be said...

In his review of this recent book by Davenport and Kim, Pope maintains that Òproblem solving is not the core of analytical thinking. A solution in a vacuum solves nothing. Problems must be framed correctly to reflect a relevant context, then the results need to be communicated in a manner which...

Misforecasting demand will cost profits and threaten reputations, market share, and even the business itself. Roland Martin and Stephan Kolassa draw on their expertise with retail companies to examine the major challenges for demand forecasting and the choices the demand forecaster must make....

Torsten Schmidt and Simeon Vosen have done extensive research on the potential benefits of using Google TrendsÕ product search data for forecasting economic behavior. Their results point strongly to the predictive value of using Google indicators in forecasting models. Here, they provide an...

Jason Boorman manages a highly successful S&OP process Ð but, as he notes in this article, getting it up and running wasnÕt easy. Jason describes the five critical steps that paved the way for his effective S&OP implementation. Copyright International Institute of Forecasters, 2013

ForesightÕs editor interviews Jeffrey Mishlove, author of The Alpha Interface series, whose article--The Future of Financial Market ForecastingÑappears in issue 31 of the journal. Copyright International Institute of Forecasters, 2013

Martin and Alec have long studied the application of statistical process control (SPC) concepts to forecasting and planning. The objective of SPC is to distinguish ÒnormalÓ variation in the output of a process from a signal that the process is changing Ð and possibly out of control. The...

Jeffrey Mishlove, author of The Alpha Interface series of empirical research on the financial markets, highlights five trends that have the power to alter the landscape of financial forecasting. His message is essential food for thought for all of us in the forecasting profession: only rarely is...