Yearly Archives: 2016

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Trumped up Predictions: Why Nate Silver Missed the Mark on the GOP Nomination

Writing about Donald Trump—especially nowadays—is likely to incite a heated discussion and lose you friends. Whether or not you’re for or against him and his politics, it’s interesting that so few of the political bigwigs managed to foresee that he would get this far. Specifically, Nate Silver and his statistical […]

Top 5 Best practices for Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting Automation

A successful business envisions a continuous progress through a strong sense of planning and implementation. The planning phase is a crucial part of performance management wherein the business path is determined by using variables that affect performance. While it’s true that there is no straightforward path to success, there are […]

How To Use Excel for Seasonal Forecasting

If you have years worth of sales data, you can use that data, with the help of Excel, to predict upcoming trends and help you plan for your business. Forecasts can help you with important business decisions, such as managing staff and inventory, planning budgets, and predicting cash flow issues. […]

Budgets and Budget Cycles: How Long is Long Enough?

It goes without saying that a business can’t operate without a solid budget; the budget sets clear goals of income and expenditure for the entire body of the business, from top to bottom. There are many factors that go into determining your budget cycle length and the frequency of creating […]

Measuring Errors for Quality Forecasting

It is perhaps part of human nature to react to errors as soon as they see it. Being able to identify them is crucial in just about anything especially in instances where minor discrepancies would impact the expected results a lot. Forecasting business flow is necessary in making important decisions. […]

Seven Core Capabilities of IBM Planning Analytics, a Cloud-Based Budgeting & Planning Automation Solution

In today’s fast-paced business environment, organizations that don’t use data and analytics for planning are flying blind. In the past, data analysis has been cumbersome, time-consuming and resource-intensive (not to mention expensive), requiring analysts who not only analyzed the data, but also spent hours accumulating, entering and then rechecking the […]

What is Employee Performance Management?

Employee performance management is a key to create a coherent relationship of the workforce’s efficiency levels and the organization’s goals and objectives. Performance management begins as the worker is screened primarily for the tasks where their skills are determined if they are suitable to comply with the needed competency for […]