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News Flash: Free Copy of The Business Forecasting Deal (the book) at IBF Dallas

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A major news item this week is the New York Department of Health's labeling of childen's games like Kickball, Wiffleball, Freeze Tag, Red Rover, and Steal the Bacon as dangerous. (Apparently Spin the Bottle, Truth or Dare, and Doctor are still ok?) Is this the continuing wussification of American youth? Back in my day, when a kid skinned his knee in summer camp, they taught him how to make a wallet out of it. And we loved it!

!!!NEWS FLASH!!!

We've just arranged a book giveaway at the IBF Demand Planning & Forecasting: Best Practices Conference at the Fairmont Hotel in Dallas, May 4-6. All conference attendees receive a free copy of The Business Forecasting Deal, which I'll be signing on Friday May 6 at the breakfast/registration 7:45-8:45 a.m.

Plan to arrive in Dallas by Wednesday morning to attend the annual Demand Management Forum on May 4, 2:00-5:30pm. We'll be covering:

Applying Demand Management - Demand Sensing, Shaping, and Creation
Lean Approaches to Forecasting with CPFR and FVA
Worst Practices in Business Forecasting

The Forum consists of brief presentations from the panelists on each topic, plus open discussion with the audience. There are also networking opportunities during and after the Forum to meet fellow forecasting professionals. The Forum is a great chance to learn from your peers and build your professional network.

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Mike Gilliland

Product Marketing Manager

Michael Gilliland is a longtime business forecasting practitioner and formerly a Product Marketing Manager for SAS Forecasting. He is on the Board of Directors of the International Institute of Forecasters, and is Associate Editor of their practitioner journal Foresight: The International Journal of Applied Forecasting. Mike is author of The Business Forecasting Deal (Wiley, 2010) and former editor of the free e-book Forecasting with SAS: Special Collection (SAS Press, 2020). He is principal editor of Business Forecasting: Practical Problems and Solutions (Wiley, 2015) and Business Forecasting: The Emerging Role of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (Wiley, 2021). In 2017 Mike received the Institute of Business Forecasting's Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2021 his paper "FVA: A Reality Check on Forecasting Practices" was inducted into the Foresight Hall of Fame. Mike initiated The Business Forecasting Deal blog in 2009 to help expose the seamy underbelly of forecasting practice, and to provide practical solutions to its most vexing problems.

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