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- Research and Markets: 1Q09 United Kingdom Mobile Operator Forecast, 2008-2013 - Orange to Become More Profitable Than Vodafone, O2, and T-Mobile in UK's Mobile Operator Space in 2013
- DUBLIN -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/b34fcf/1q09_united_kingdo) has announced the addition of IE Market Research Corp.'s new report "1Q09 United Kingdom Mobile Operator Forecast, 2008 - 2013: Orange to Become More Profitable Than Vodafone, O2, and T-Mobile in UK's Mobile Operator Space In 2013" to their offering. Our Mobile Operator...
- Research articles 2009-02-13
- Business Forecasting: What Do You Expect?
- Forecasting demand is a serious challenge to most organizations. As Mark Twain famously said, "the art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future." Difficult, yes, but essential. Demand forecasts are used for all manner of planning purposes -- from capital budgeting to raw materials ordering to...
- Blog posts 2007-06-28
- Improve Forecast Accuracy by the Consensus Process
- Business forecasting is hard. As Mark Twain once said, "the art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future." The key to developing an accurate forecasting system, as evidenced by a detailed case study in the Harvard Business Review (pay to view, unfortunately), is to incorporate all...
- Blog posts 2007-05-02
- Coke Entrprises Higher Profit Tops Expectations
- CHICAGO (Reuters) - Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc CCE reported a bigger-than-expected increase in quarterly profit on Wednesday, helped by higher prices, and raised its full-year outlook.The largest bottler of Coca-Cola Co KO drinks earned $247 million, or 50 cents per share, in the third quarter, up from $214 million, or 44...
- News items 2009-10-28
- Improving Product Forecasts
- One of the most perplexing challenges for product managers and marketers is the creation of forecasts. Forecasts may be made to depict future market share for a product. Forecasts may be made to depict future product sales. The key issue related to forecasting in product management is that forecasts cannot...
- White papers 2006-11-28
- Is Forecasting Really Worth the Effort?
- Here's what I think this Bob Morrell guy is saying. Consider the following: FACT: Nobody likes preparing forecasts. FACT: Forecasting takes a lot of time and energy. FACT: Time and energy spent forecasting is time not spent selling. FACT: Forecasts are almost always wrong....
- Blog posts 2008-09-16
- U.S. Auto Sales Forecasts Fall on Poor September Results
- The prospect for a lengthy credit crisis sent forecasters back to the drawing board, to cut predictions for U.S. auto sales this year and next. by Jim Henry
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- U.S. Auto Sales Forecasts Cut Yet Again
- Stock market volatility and the increasing odds for a U.S. recession have got auto industry analysts cutting their U.S. auto sales forecasts, and then cutting some more. by Jim Henry
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Relatively Sunny Skies for Skyworks
- Trade Radar Operator submits: Amidst the gloom and doom, it was a pleasure to read a conference call transcript where the company reported good earnings and committed to a positive forecast. Skyworks Solutions SWKS seems to be in a sweet spot and they were happy to share the good...
- External links 2008-11-10
- What Are Your Expectations For Your Forecast?
- Do you give your forecast the focus and attention it deserves? If you are not honest and ruthless about your forecast- and at what stage it is truly at-how can you be successful? How you manage your forecast is usually a good indicator of how you manage your business in...
- White papers 2008-06-29
- Understanding The Use Of Forecasting Systems: An Interpretive Study In A Supply-Chain Company
- Managers in a supply-chain company believed that they were making extensive use of the demand forecasts generated by an expensive forecasting system that is marketed on the basis of the accuracy of its advanced statistical methods. Yet the majority of the forecasts were obtained by using the system's facility for...
- White papers 2007-08-01
- Media Forecast
- This template helps you plan the monthly advertising amount your firm will use over the next year. It also compares each month's actual expenditures to the forecast established at the beginning of the year.
- Tools & templates 2007-09-01
- Home Repossessions Up in Q3
- LONDON (Reuters UK) - The number of homes repossessed by lenders in Britain rose slightly to 11,700 in the three months to September from 11,400 in the three months to June, the Council of Mortgage Lenders said on Thursday.Compared with the same period a year ago, repossessions were up 5...
- News items 2009-11-12
- Forecast Your Sales
- This article explains about system features like generating forecasts at any level within the company, customer or product hierarchy even if the initial forecast is done at the SKU level, converting changes in cases to dollars and vice versa or accommodate any equivalent factors (equivalent cs, lbs, kg, barrels), replacing...
- White papers
- Forecasting Items with Long Lead Times
- A demand forecast is a prediction of the amount of each product that will be sold, transferred, used in an assembly, or otherwise consumed in the future. It's easy to see that inaccurate forecasts can cause major problems for a company. When forecasted demand is far below actual demand for...
- White papers 1999-01-01
- Economic Forecasting: How Pros Predict The Future
- While current economic forecasts may still seem to some to be mystically derived, today's economic forecasters tend to rely more on data, computer models, and economic theories rather than divine inspiration although, given the accuracy of their forecasts. However, forecasting has become an important part of planning for any other...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Asset Prices And Informed Traders' Abilities : Evidence From Experimental Asset Markets
- This study reports the results of fifteen experimental asset markets designed to investigate the effects of forecasts on market prices, traders' abilities to assess asset value, and the link between the two. Across the fifteen markets, the authors investigate alternative forecast-generating processes. In some markets, the process produces an unbiased...
- White papers 2002-12-01
- How Accurate Are Private Sector Forecasts--Cross-Country Evidence From Consensus Forecasts Of Output Growth
- This article evaluates the performance of consensus forecasts of GDP growth for industrialized and developing countries. The question this article tries to address is how do forecasts errors differ across industrialized and developing countries? are forecasts efficient and biased? In this two key result, emerge. First, the record of failure...
- White papers 2000-04-01
- Forecasting Market Shares From Models For Sales
- Dividing forecasts of brand sales by a forecast of category sales, when they are generated from brand specific sales-response models, renders biased forecasts of the brands' market shares. This paper proposes an easy-to-apply simulation-based method, which results in unbiased forecasts of the market shares. An illustration for five tuna fish...
- White papers 2000-02-01
- Ilford Case Study
- Ilford has been a user of the FINeCHAIN demand planning system since 1998, after having previously used MerciaLincs PC for several years. The company implemented the solution in a bid to produce a higher quality and more reliable forecast. Prior to this, Ilford worked from systems that produced a forecast...
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