Recent Posts by Sam Iosevich

Six Reasons Why COOs Are Embracing Demand Forecasting

There are six powerful factors driving the COO’s rising interest in unified demand forecasting. This is partially driven by companies shift from siloed, stand-alone approaches to unified, enterprise-wide operations. Market leaders are paying attention to these six additional drivers:

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Forecast Accuracy: What's the magic number?

What is a reasonable forecast accuracy for my business?” I get asked that question all the time. People generally understand that forecasts cannot be 100% accurate, but they’re seeking that elusive magic number that represents a good forecast—is it 90%, 85%, 80%? The truth is that a single number cannot describe the quality of the forecast for every situation. The example that I like to use is predicting the number of days in a given week versus predicting the total rainfall in a given week.

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