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Forecasting courses, training and coaching for practitioners and companies
The Lancaster Centre for Forecasting has a long and successful history in delivring first class forecasting education to students and to practitioners. We offer basic forecasting and demand planning courses, introducing the fundamentals of forecasting methods, processes, performance measurement, software systems and organisations to practitioners.
Alternatively, we frequently deliver in-house courses tailor-made to a particular organisation's needs, i.e. reflecting a specific class of forecasting methods from exponential smoothing to neural networks, software tutoring from Forecast Pro to SAP APO-DP, or general introductions in-house to limit off-work time.
In addition, the Lancaster Centre for Forecasting offers individual coaching on the job, giving individual or team support in forecasting projects to tackle new methods & systems, enhance existing forecasting practices for increased accuracy or bring new team members up to a desired level of knowledge.
Please contact Dr. Sven F. Crone directly to find the most suitable form of training to tackly your current organisational challenges!
Upcoming Forecasting Courses
7 & 8 November 2011 "The Fundamentals of Forecasting"
This four-day couse aims to give practising forecaster the skills necessary to improve their performance and knowledge in the key areas of commonly used forecasting methods, how best to evaluate forecasts and, the use of expert judgement to incorporate key future events. The first date has now be confirmed to be November 7 & 8 November in Lancaster (with the second part to be scheduled for early 2012 during the first session of the course). A further course in Lancaster will start in Spring of 2012. Please follow this link to learn more about the course contents and pricing [Forecasting Fundamentals - Course detail].
"... excellent course which will make an important difference on how we work ... "
UK Department of Work and Pensions (DWP)
Recent Forecasting Courses
- 2005 to Now: Course "Fundamental of Forecasting", Lancaster, UK. Included attendees from Capita Dixons, Scottish Power, ManWeb, British Telecom (BT), Nestle, Specsavers, Nikon, McBride, NightFreight
- Organizational courses for Bayer, Dept. Work Pensions, Ministry of Justice.
- 2006 - 2011, Courses on "Statistical Forecasting with SAP APO-DP", held in-house at Beiersdorf
- 11/2005 Course "Forecasting with Artificial Neural Networks", IEEE Summer School, Santiago, Chile
- 11/2005 In-house training "Forecasting commodity prices with artificial neural networks", CODELCO, Santiago, Chile
Recent course participation: Barclaycard, British Gypsum, Dept. Work and Pensions, DSTL, Booths, Virgin Media, Scottish Power.
Organisational Forecasting Training
If your organisation is interested in developing its forecasting managers please contact Robert Fildes at the Centre here to discuss how a flexible training package can be developed which focuses on meeting the specific needs of your organisation.
The course is broken into two short blocks for convenience and to allow participants time to carry out their own analyses and to absorb the own material through practice and distance learning.
