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SDF Organization
Business Definition
Strategic forecasting is an essential support function to strategic business decision making, and for
that reason, articulating a good business denition for the strategic decision forecasting (SDF) team is
vital. To make SDF teams effective, a clearly dened and well-considered charter, scope, and support
functions are needed along with well-balanced vision, mission, values and principles, goals, objectives,
and strategies, and a sound organizational structure. Ordinarily, a business denition begins with the
organization’s charter and scope of activities, but we start with a description of the SDF team’ ...