{"id":1299,"date":"2011-12-21T17:23:51","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T22:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demand-planning.com\/?p=1299"},"modified":"2011-12-21T17:23:51","modified_gmt":"2011-12-21T22:23:51","slug":"never-good-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demand-planning.com\/2011\/12\/21\/never-good-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Never Good Enough: The Blind Spot in Forecasting & Planning"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Mike<\/a>

Mike Kelleher - Hollister<\/p><\/div>\n

Motivational speaker Lou Tice called it a \u201cScotoma\u201d\u2014an area of partial alteration to one\u2019s field of vision.\u00a0 Allstate Insurance represents something similar in one of it\u2019s television commercials featuring a man by the name of \u201cMayhem\u201d.\u00a0 In this particular ad we see Mayhem clinging to the side of an unsuspecting woman\u2019s SUV claiming to be her blind spot. Acting as the woman\u2019s blind spot in her car he tells her its all clear to change lanes however, when she proceeds to change lanes she crashes into another oncoming truck.\u00a0 How can this so called \u201cblind spot\u201d affect a company\u2019s demand planning & forecasting process<\/a> or even the bottom line?\u00a0 If this blind spot impacts management, could it impact the entire team?<\/p>\n

The answer is yes it can.\u00a0 I had been working in the forecasting and demand planning fieldfor 17 years when I discovered that I was the blind spot, the Scotoma, in the process.\u00a0 I came to understand that I had allowed my wealth of experience<\/a> to overshadow the needs of the company.<\/p>\n

In the session I will be giving at IBF\u2019s Supply Chain Forecasting & Planning Conference in Scottsdale, AZ<\/a> you can hear not only some of the warning signs of a potential blind spot but also how to re-energize ideation in yourself and others in order to eliminate the blind spot or neutralize its effects.\u00a0 I will also provide five important qualities that reporting should contain, and I will touch upon the qualities of a great forecaster<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n

We are fortunate to enjoy the world of forecasting<\/a>.\u00a0 Forecasting mixes the discipline of science with the beauty of art.\u00a0 I hope you will join me in generating ideas and lighting a new path to success.<\/p>\n

Michael Kelleher
\nChief Forecaster \u2013 North America
\nHollister<\/p>\n

Hear Michael Speak at IBF’s\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"IBF's<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Motivational speaker Lou Tice called it a \u201cScotoma\u201d\u2014an area of partial alteration to one\u2019s field of vision.\u00a0 Allstate Insurance represents something similar in one of it\u2019s television commercials featuring a man by the name of \u201cMayhem\u201d.\u00a0 In this particular ad we see Mayhem clinging to the side of an unsuspecting woman\u2019s SUV claiming to be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[60,61,62,41,64,65,66,34,67,146,39,68,69,70,35,42,43,44,36,48,81,37,73,74,38],"class_list":{"0":"post-1299","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-forecasting-and-planning","7":"tag-best-practices","8":"tag-business-forecasting","9":"tag-collaborative-forecasting","10":"tag-data-cleansing","11":"tag-demand-forecast","12":"tag-demand-forecasting","13":"tag-demand-management","14":"tag-demand-planning","15":"tag-demand-planning-and-forecasting-conference","16":"tag-dpfc","17":"tag-economic-forecasting","18":"tag-executive-sop","19":"tag-forecast-accuracy","20":"tag-forecast-error","21":"tag-forecasting","22":"tag-forecasting-metrics","23":"tag-forecasting-models","24":"tag-forecasting-system","25":"tag-ibf","26":"tag-institute-of-business-forecasting-and-planning","27":"tag-inventory-management","28":"tag-sop","29":"tag-sales-operations-planning","30":"tag-sales-forecasting","31":"tag-supply-chain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demand-planning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demand-planning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demand-planning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demand-planning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demand-planning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demand-planning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demand-planning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demand-planning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demand-planning.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}