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Six Sigma
Decisioneering has realized its success and market leadership through a business model that focuses on the delivery of high-quality, easy-to-use risk analysis software and on our strategic partnerships with industry leaders. Our Six Sigma Partner Program has helped Six Sigma consulting companies through specialized training, product and marketing support, and...
Tags: Risk Analysis, Crystal Ball, Decisioneering, Six Sigma, Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000, Process Improvement, Strategy, Quality, Business Operations, It Operations, Management
White papers 2002-11-25
Getting Started: Disaster Recovery Planning
This article is about disaster planning work with many different types of organizations, that too many of them make the recovery process harder for themselves - or even impossible - by not planning ahead for disaster recovery. While they may take steps to try to prevent disasters, they ignore the...
Tags: Recovery, Disaster Recovery Planning, Crystal Ball, Disaster Recovery, Data Management
White papers 2003-01-01
Project Cost Risk Analysis Using Crystal Ball-1
The typical project often overruns its cost estimate. Overruns are common on government and commercial projects, even when changes in the design are taken into account. One reason this happens is because cost estimating traditionally fails to take into account the risk that the work will actually cost more (or...
Tags: Risk, Data Collection, Estimate, Risk Analysis, Crystal Ball, Overruns, Future Estimate, Strategy, Security, Management
White papers 2003-01-01
Guidelines For Successful Risk Facilitating And Analysis
This article presents guidelines for risk facilitating and risk analysis of cost estimates. These guidelines are based on the successes and lessons-learned from one company's approach to risk-weighted cost estimates. Key issues relating to the identification and quantification of risks are addressed. In particular, the role of the risk facilitator...
Tags: Risk Analysis, Analysis, Crystal Ball, Strategy, Management
White papers 2000-04-04
Using Monte Carlo Simulation to Assess and Manage Risk In The Clinical Laboratory
Managers often are asked to consider opportunities that involve risks. Traditional approaches to evaluating uncertainty fall short of providing a comprehensive view of possible outcomes. Risk analysis techniques using Monte Carlo simulation offer a more sophisticated approach that can help the manager better understand and manage those risks. This article...
Tags: Risk, Risk Analysis, Crystal Ball, Strategy, Management
White papers 2003-01-01
Corporate Risk Analysis
The purpose in this article is to show that every item written into a firm's profit and loss account and its balance sheet is a stochastic variable with a probability distribution derived from probability distributions for each factor of production. Using this approach one is able to derive a probability...
Tags: Risk Analysis, Crystal Ball, Probability Distribution, Balance Sheets, Strategy, Financial Statements, Financial Accounting, Finance, Management
White papers 2001-11-01
Basic Techniques For Analyzing And Presentation Of Cost Risk Analysis
Capital costs are quantified estimated, analyzed and presented as part of the strategic decision making process in today's business environment. Strategic decisions are usually centered on new product introductions, increased capacity for existing products, vertical business integration, or other decisions that generally affect the balance sheet of a corporation. Strategic...
Tags: Technique, Risk Analysis, Decision, Crystal Ball, Capital Cost, Productivity, Balance Sheets, Financial Statements, Financial Accounting, Finance
White papers 2003-01-01
Analyzing Engineering Projects Using Real Options -- Intelligent Investments In The Face Of Uncertainty
Boeing performs extensive financial modeling, a requirement given the technical complexity and the long life cycle of our products. One of the techniques we use is called ""Real Options,"" an advanced financial modeling technique that extends standard net present value NPV to evaluate risk-adjusted return on investment and cost-versus-risk...
Tags: Technique, Financial, Investment, Boeing Co., Crystal Ball, Productivity, Research & Development, Roi/Tco, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Finance, Managerial Accounting
White papers 2003-01-01
Forecasting Shareholder Value: The Missing Objective In Balanced Scorecards
Most for-profit corporations structure their strategy maps with a "Long-term shareholder value" objective at the top. Balanced ScoreCard BSC designs then feature, typically, 15-25 related metrics. Individual metrics are any of: performance measure, value driver, and/or performance predictor. A few rare BSC implementations report historical shareholder return. All BSCs found...
Tags: Forecasting, Crystal Ball, Individual Metric, Balanced Scorecard, Marketing, Marketing Research
White papers 2006-04-14

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Crystal Ball results. (Economy).(Wayne Balsiger of PACCAR Inc. wins Crystal Ball award)(Brief Article)
Crystal Ball results. Wayne Balsiger, senior purchasing analyst and systems manager for PACCAR Inc. in Bellevue, Wash., has won a fifth PURCHASING magazine Crystal Ball economic forecasting contest. Second-place finisher in the 2002 contest is Jaso Crystal Ball results. Wayne Balsiger, senior purchasing analyst...
Tags: PACCAR Inc.
Research articles 2003-06-19
Take Home Part of the Magic of ABC Daytime's ``All My Children'' Crystal Ball With Keepsakes Available Exclusively On ABC.com
Entertainment Editors LOS ANGELES--ENTERTAINMENT WIRE--Dec. 20, 2000 Be a part of the magic and drama surrounding ABC Daytime's Crystal Ball on "All My Children" by clicking on to ABC.com. For the second consecutive year, ABC.com and ABC Daytime are lighting up the holiday season by offering fans...
Tags: ABC Inc., INTERNET, MARKETING, SALES
Research articles 2000-12-20
Crystal Ball unretires in time for NFL openers
THE PREMIER AND prescient Crystal Ball is back by popular demand after a one-year hiatus. OK, the only demand came from the Ball's boss, Zoltar. Before we begin, it's time for a refresher course of the Ball's weekly mission. What you're about to read is not your...
Tags: NFL
Research articles 2008-09-03
Stars and cars highlight DWDA's annual Crystal Ball
Steve Holsey Michigan Chronicle 01-09-1996 Stars and cars highlight DWDA's annual Crystal Ball. Detroiters who gathered recently celebrate the Detroit-Windsor Dance Academy's fifth annual Crystal Ball enjoyed a fabulous evening of entertainment. Hosted by Dr. Ronald Goldberry, vice president of Ford Motor...
Tags: car, Ford Motor Co.
Research articles 1996-01-09
Direct Mail: Measuring Volatility With Crystal Ball
This paper covers the concept of and need for a stochastic profitability evaluation to appropriately assess the risk associated with retail direct marketing efforts. Through the application of Crystal Ball simulation, the measures necessary to build a financial model are identified and volatility measurement in direct mail performance is demonstrated....
Tags: Volatility, Alliance, Direct Marketing, Direct Mail, Alliance Data, Investment, Sales Channel, Finance, Sales
White papers 2005-05-23
Trend mill: outside the laboratories, whose job is to invent new gadgets rather than make them work commercially, technological crystal-ball gazing has been tamed by dollars-and-cents reality.
Trend mill: outside the laboratories, whose job is to invent new gadgets rather than make them work commercially, technological crystal-ball gazing has been tamed by dollars-and-cents reality. What's possible, it turns out, can be quite different f Trend mill: outside the laboratories, whose job...
Tags: job, MPEG-2, personal video recorder, recorder, set-top, set-top box, storage, TV, video recorder
Research articles 2002-05-01
Crystal Ball gazers are more bearish than pros. (contest entries forecasts economy)
Gross Domestic Product GDP will expand 3.2% in 1994, according to a consensus of more than 250 Crystal Ball contest entries. This represents a vast improvement from last year's consensus (+2.0%), and agreement is strong as both the statistical mode most frequent and median GDP forecasts...
Tags: Federal Reserve Board, FINANCE, inflation
Research articles 1994-07-14
Goldberg family to receive 2004 Crystal Ball Award
SYRACUSE - The Goldberg family, owners of Raymour & Flanigan Furniture, will receive the 2004 Crystal Ball Award from Central New York Sales and Marketing Executives SME. Presented each February since 1977, the award honors a local business executive who has improved his company through the use of sales and...
Tags: MARKETING, SALES, SMB/SME, Syracuse University
Research articles 2003-12-05
Psychic fails to predict crystal ball blaze
LONDON AFP — A French amateur psychic's powers of prediction were under sharp scrutiny after his crystal ball started an inferno that burnt out his flat, a British newspaper reported. The fortune-telling device caused a fire that destroyed two other flats and rendered several more uninhabitable, The Times said....
Tags: Agence France-Presse, firefighter, flat
Research articles 2005-08-12
CRYSTAL BALL A BIT FUZZY
The story, "Gazing into the Crystal Ball" (SW Oct., pages 8-9), wasn't as crystal-clear as we had hoped. Joe Ziegler, a 2:04.34 200 meter backstroker is 15, not 16, and swims for the Area Tallahassee Aquatic Club in Florida, not the Northern Kentucky Clippers. He's also swum 3:57 for the...
Tags: Ziegler Inc.
Research articles 2005-12-01
New York marks New Year with crystal ball drop
NEW YORK AFP — The glittering crystal ball descended over New York's Time Square as hundreds of thousands of revelers shouted out the final seconds of 2004. US Secretary of State Colin Powell and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg pushed the button to start the ball drop at the...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Leadership
Research articles 2004-12-31
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