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Nice article on FVA now available online

By Mike Gilliland on The Business Forecasting Deal February 14, 2018 Topics | Analytics

What is Forecast Value Added?

Please enhance your Valentine's Day with this treat offered up by the Journal of Business Forecasting. Eric Wilson's very nice discussion of Forecast Value Added, originally published in the Spring 2016 issue of JBF, is now available online: "What is Forecast Value Added?"

Eric also co-authored "Practical Considerations in Forecast Value Added Analysis" (with Harpal Singh and Sanjiv Raman) in the Summer 2015 issue of Foresight. This article is available to Foresight subscribers and IIF members in their online archives.

What is FVA -- In Two Slides

Need a quick FVA fix before reading Eric's articles? These two slides provide the essence of the concept:

About Author

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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