Overview
It is time to rethink the way businesses organize and run forecasting processes and how they use the insights that they provide to navigate through these turbulent times. This book synthesizes and structures findings from a range of disciplines and over 60 years of the authors combined practical experience. This is presented in the form of a set of simple strategies that any organization can use to master the process of forecasting. The key message of this book is that while no mortal can predict the future, you can take the steps to be ready for it. āGood enoughā forecasts, wise preparation and the capability to take timely action, will help your organization to create its own future.
Written in an engaging and thought provoking style, Future Ready leads the reader to answers to questions such as:
- What makes a good forecast?
- What period should a forecast cover?
- How frequently should it be updated?
- What information should it contain?
- What is the best way to produce a forecast?
- How can you avoid gaming and other forms of data manipulation?
- How should a forecast be used?
- How do you ensure that your forecast is reliable?
- How accurate does it need to be?
- How should you deal with risk and uncertainty
- What is the best way to organize a forecast process?
- Do you need multiple forecasts?
- What changes should be made to other performance management processes to facilitate good forecasting?
Future Ready is an invaluable guide for practicing managers and a source of insight and inspiration to leaders looking for better ways of doing things and to students of the science and craft of management.
Praise for Future Ready
"Will make a difference to the way you think about forecasting going forward"
āHoward Green, Group Controller Unilever PLC
"Great analogies and stories are combined with rock solid theory in a language that even the most reading-averse manager will love from page one"
āBjarte Bogsnes, Vice President Performance Management Development at StatoilHydro
"A timely addition to the growing research on management planning andĀ performance measurement."
āDr. Charles T. Horngren, Edmund G. Littlefield Professor of Accounting Emeritus Stanford University and author of many standard texts including Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis, Introduction to Management Accounting, and Financial Accounting
"In the area of Forecasting, it is the best book in the market."
āFritz Roemer. Leader of Enterprise Performance Executive Advisory Program, the Hackett Group
This book title, Future Ready (How to Master Business Forecasting), ISBN: 9780470747056, by Steve Morlidge, Steve Player, published by Wiley (January 11, 2010) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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