Future Ready

Future Ready
Written in an engaging and thought provoking style, Future Ready leads the reader to answers to questions such as:* What makes a good forecast?* What period should a forecast cover?* How frequently should it be updated?* What information should it contain?* What is the best way to produce a forecast?* How can you avoid gaming and other forms of data manipulation?* How should a forecast be used?* How do you ensure that your forecast is reliable?* How accurate does it need to be?* How should you deal with risk and uncertainty* What is the best way to organize a forecast process?* Do you need multiple forecasts?* What changes should be made to other performance management processes to facilitate good forecasting? Future Ready is an invaluable guide for practicing managers and a source of insight and inspiration to leaders looking for better ways of doing things and to students of the science and craft of management.
Praise for Future Ready "Will make a difference to the way you think about forecasting going forward" -Howard Green, Group Controller Unilever PLC "Great analogies and stories are combined with rock solid theory in a language that even the most reading-averse manager will love from page one" -Bjarte Bogsnes, Vice President Performance Management Development at StatoilHydro "A timely addition to the growing research on management planning and performance measurement." -Dr. Charles T. Horngren, Edmund G. Littlefield Professor of Accounting Emeritus Stanford University and author of many standard texts including Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis, Introduction to Management Accounting, and Financial Accounting "In the area of Forecasting, it is the best book in the market." -Fritz Roemer. Leader of Enterprise Performance Executive Advisory Program, the Hackett Group
Descrierea produsului
Written in an engaging and thought provoking style, Future Ready leads the reader to answers to questions such as:* What makes a good forecast?* What period should a forecast cover?* How frequently should it be updated?* What information should it contain?* What is the best way to produce a forecast?* How can you avoid gaming and other forms of data manipulation?* How should a forecast be used?* How do you ensure that your forecast is reliable?* How accurate does it need to be?* How should you deal with risk and uncertainty* What is the best way to organize a forecast process?* Do you need multiple forecasts?* What changes should be made to other performance management processes to facilitate good forecasting? Future Ready is an invaluable guide for practicing managers and a source of insight and inspiration to leaders looking for better ways of doing things and to students of the science and craft of management.
Praise for Future Ready "Will make a difference to the way you think about forecasting going forward" -Howard Green, Group Controller Unilever PLC "Great analogies and stories are combined with rock solid theory in a language that even the most reading-averse manager will love from page one" -Bjarte Bogsnes, Vice President Performance Management Development at StatoilHydro "A timely addition to the growing research on management planning and performance measurement." -Dr. Charles T. Horngren, Edmund G. Littlefield Professor of Accounting Emeritus Stanford University and author of many standard texts including Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis, Introduction to Management Accounting, and Financial Accounting "In the area of Forecasting, it is the best book in the market." -Fritz Roemer. Leader of Enterprise Performance Executive Advisory Program, the Hackett Group
Detaliile produsului
- Cod: BRT9780470747056
- Categoria: Business Management
- Categoria: Children's Books
- Categoria: Language And Literature
- Format: 261 x 263 x 8 mm
- Editie: cartonata
- An aparitie: 2019
- Editura: Harper Collins Childrens Books
- Nr. pagini: 328
- Autor:
- Limba: English