Steve Player of Beyond Budgeting fame recently blogged about moving from forecasting to adapting. Idea being, rather than focusing solely on increasing forecast accuracy (and building ever more complex — and fragile! — models), why not get better at adapting to evolving circumstances? I really like this notion. It fits nicely with the tenets of [...]

Last October, we partnered with Susan Scrupski, founder of the Adoption Council, to launch the Adoption Index Prediction Market, a space for the E2.0 community to forecast key industry trends. The current leader in the market is Samuel Driessen, an Information Architect at Océ, a 22,000-employee provider of digital document management technology and services. In [...]

Mat Fogarty presented the Crowdcast story at Under the Radar 2010 last week. We won the audience choice in the analytics category! Here is Mat’s 6 minute presentation.

Operational risk is the risk of loss resulting from inadequate or filed internal processes, people, and systems, or from external events. While this definition has its roots in banking (Basel II), companies across industries are starting to take risk mitigation much more seriously. Operational risks take many forms. Brand managers bringing new products to market [...]

Corporations are not architected for growth, but for execution and problem solving. This tends to throttle growth. Join us and Tim Ogilvie and Katie Waterson, our valued partners from Peer Insight, for a webinar on ways to accelerate and de-risk innovation. We will present techniques companies can use to transform themselves from authorized firms, which [...]

Dr. Ajit Kambil, Global Research Director of Deloitte, authored an interesting piece on the use of prediction markets by CFOs. He presents a nice summary of how prediction markets work and their benefits — that they are a great way to aggregate dispersed insights and capture information that changes over time. Some implementations of prediction [...]