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Strategic Decision Forecasting
Forecasting for strategic decisions is the discipline that develops a set of forecast solutions to support
strategic decisions or large impact projects. Scott Armstrong (2001) presented an outline of strategic
forecasting, with the advice that forecasting methods should t specic situations. Since then, not
much has been published in the area of developing methodology, processes, tools, and organiza-
tions, and many misconceptions and failures in this type of forecasting prevail today. The progress
made in this area has been by few progressive companies and some business consulting rms, but
remains mostly proprietar ...