TY - BOOK AU - Gordon,Adam ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - Future savvy: identifying trends to make better decisions, manage uncertainty, and profit from change AV - HD30.27 .G67 2009 U1 - 658.4/012 22 PY - 2009/// CY - New York PB - American Management Association KW - Business forecasting KW - Strategic planning KW - Industrial management KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-287) and index; Recognizing forecast intentions -- The quality of information : how good is the data? -- Bias traps : how and why interpretations are spun -- Zeitgeist and perception : how we can't escape our own mind -- The power of user utility : how consumers drive and block change -- Drivers, blockers, and trends -- The limits of quantitative forecasting -- A systems perspective in forecasting -- Alternative futures : how it's better to be vaguely right than exactly wrong -- Applying forecast filtering -- Questions to ask of any forecast; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=408745 ER -