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Michael Gilliland is a longtime business forecasting practitioner and currently Product Marketing Manager for SAS Forecasting. He initiated The Business Forecasting Deal to help expose the seamy underbelly of the forecasting practice, and to provide practical solutions to its most vexing problems.Subscribe to this blog
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Michael Gilliland, author of The Business Forecasting Deal (the book), is a longtime business forecasting practitioner and currently Product Marketing Manager for SAS Forecasting software. He initiated The Business Forecasting Deal (the blog) to help expose the seamy underbelly of the forecasting practice, and to provide practical solutions to its most vexing problems.
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Forecasting webinars
"Why Should I Trust Your Forecasts?" now available on-demand The SAS / Foresight webinar series had a rousing kickoff on April 24, with Paul ... Read More
Guest Blogger: Len Tashman previews Spring 2013 issue of Foresight
Editor Len Tashman's Preview of Foresight For a look at articles in the Spring issue of Foresight: The International Journal of Applied Forecasting, here ... Read More
See SAS (=Stark Industries) in Iron Man 3
When you work at headquarters of the leader in advanced analytics software, you never know who you'll encounter in the lobby. It might be celebrity ... Read More
SAS / Foresight webinar series debuts April 24
This week Nate Silver, renowned election forecaster (fivethirtyeight blog) and top selling author (of the excellent The Signal and the Noise), spoke at an event ... Read More
Is one-number forecasting a new worst practice?
The one-number forecasting concept has been debated for years. Advocates argue that having different groups within the same organization working to different forecasts is insane. ... Read More
Lessons from forecasting the stock market
There is a well recognized phenomenon that combining forecasts, derived from different methods using different sources of information, can improve forecast accuracy. This approach, sometimes ... Read More
Graduate students available for forecasting projects
Back in 2012 I advocated man-dog love and introduced you to my foster dog Mikey. While an endearing little fellow, Mikey did have a bit of ... Read More
Role of the sales force in forecasting
The war of business forecasting ideas is being waged in the trenches of the online discussion groups. Where else can great disagreement be exacerbated (and ... Read More
Guest Blogger: Len Tashman previews Winter 2013 issue of Foresight
Editor Len Tashman's Preview of Foresight Foresight has always presented its methods-based articles as either tutorials, which introduce and illustrate a methodology in nontechnical language, ... Read More
When do you stop trying to improve forecast accuracy? (Part 1)