Product Description: This book is about managing the task of forecasting profit. It builds a case for using multiple methods, providing examples of each method, and suggesting practical techniques to use in dealing with the issues and problems of accuracy in profit forecasts...read more

Product Description: Since the early 1990s interest in foresight has undergone one of its periodic resurgences and has led to a rapid growth in formal foresight studies backed by governments and transnational institutions, including many from the United Nations...read more

Beginning with examples of the mathematician who out-predicted wine buffs in determining the best vintages, and the sports scouts who use statistics rather than intuition to pick winners, this work exposes the world of data-miners, introducing the people and the techniques.

Product Description: Why do we continue to think about, imagine, and forecast the future despite believing we will probably be wrong? Why do we need to do so? What does the future mean, and how do we relate to it? Is it possible that Western societies condition their members into inability to cope with the future?These and other fundamental questions are explored in The Future Is Ours, which is written as an intermediate text for use in future-oriented modules within BA courses in International Business, Management, Urban Planning, and Environmental Politics...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Appraises futures research as a tool for dealing with social, economic, political, and technological changes. Features new strategies in planning, forecasting, and environmental scanning.