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Forecasting and IT: Should a Tight Relationship Lead to a Merger?

Posted May 31, 2008 | Leadership | Technology | Cutter Benchmark Review

This installment of Cutter Benchmark Review represents a departure from our standard approach and focus. However, with the proliferation of available data in modern organizations, the role of IS professionals in aiding the forecasting function will only increase. This is an opportunity to provide further value to the organization, and for this reason we thought that benchmarking forecasting practices and asking our experts to comment on the results would be valuable to our broad readership.

About The Author
Gabriele Piccoli
Gabriele Piccoli is a Fellow with Cutter Consortium, a member of Arthur D. Little's AMP open consulting network, and the Editor Emeritus of Cutter Benchmark Review. Dr. Piccoli is the Edward G. Schlieder Endowed Chair of Information Sciences at Louisiana State University's E.J. Ourso College of Business, and Director of the Digital Data Streams Lab. His consulting, research, and teaching expertise is in strategic information systems and the use… Read More
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