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The Promise of Strategic
Decision Forecasting
In Chapter 2, we discussed the current state of forecasting for strategic decisions and its failures
and touched on the root causes. We made reference to strategic decision forecasting (SDF) solutions
because in addition to numerical predictions, the solutions include intelligence and insights created,
evaluations, sanity checks, scenario development, simulation assessments, and various analyses
performed by SDF teams to help clients make effective decisions.
3.1 DEFINITION OF SDF
SDF can be described as the set of methods, processes, models, tools, analyses, knowledge, experiences,
the mindset, ...