TY - BOOK AU - Gordon,Adam ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Future savvy: identifying trends to make better decisions, manage uncertainty, and profit from change AV - HD30.27 .G67 2009eb 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 KW - local 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; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/welingkar/Doc?id=10271812 ER -