Amid economic uncertainty, forecasting matters more than ever. Businesses often treat sales leaders’ forecasts like a North Star. Forecasts are the basis for strategic decisions, resource allocation, ...

Managers in a manufacturing environment often must forecast the amount of inventory and supplies needed to meet demands. The use of forecasting assumes that past trends will continue with little ...

A few years ago, a large travel-management company ran an experiment. Three of its North American branches would try out a new way of running the business. The rest would continue as before. After ...

In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, the ability to accurately forecast sales is more critical than ever. Yet, traditional sales forecasting methods are increasingly proving inadequate, as ...

Time series forecasts are used to predict a future value or a classification at a particular point in time. Here’s a brief overview of their common uses and how they are developed. Industries from ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters. At Vox, our mission is to help you make sense of the world — and that work has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our own. We ...

The Trump administration's plan to dismantle the nation's atmospheric research programs could set U.S. forecasting back a generation or more, a cadre of retired federal hurricane, weather and ocean ...