In what is now a commonplace scenario, we are alerted to approaching storms by the ubiquitous weather crawl on the television. It states that storms might contain damaging wind or rain or more severe ...

Demand forecasting might be simple in stable environments where the future very closely resembles the past. Most small business owners learn early on, however, that the future rarely replicates the ...

A few years ago, a large travel-management company ran an experiment. Three of its North American branches would try out a new way of running the business. The rest would continue as before. After ...