Forecasting

If the future is uncertain, how do you plan for it? Forecasting based on simulated models allow you to see how the systems at work in the environment around the company will likely influence the future of the company.  While a singular definitive future is unlikely to emerge, forecasting allows you to see which of all possible futures are likely and plausible. 

What conditions – economic, environmental, regulatory, or other external factors – can have a significant influence on your business systems?

Business Laboratories forecasting services relies on an understanding of public data, external expertise, and written reports – and translating that raw data into meaningful information about the implications of the data for your company. In this way, we can inventory all the external factors that impact your system and understand how many permutations of the future can result.

I have had the true pleasure of working with George over the last few months on a project related to organizational design in the pharmaceutical industry.  George was able to brilliantly translate the findings from interviews into a systems dynamic model of our “as is” state and...

Rick Sax, M.D.
Clinical Vice-President, Design Strategies AstraZeneca

As CIO I hired George and his team for several large enterprise IT simulation projects, one in an automotive setting and one in a banking setting.  In each, that team was required to work with the IT staff to deliver analytics that would help change the organization for the better, at many...

Marv Adams
Head of Technology and Operations TIAA-CREF Former CIO, Ford Motor, Fidelity, and Citigroup