The guarantee was an explicit one – with no wiggle room. Clients would measurably improve their business performance — in our instance, a 25 percent minimum reduction in absolute forecast error — or we wouldn’t get paid. Not a dime.
It could have been a disaster, but taking this leap of faith actually did incredible things for our organizational focus – and ultimately helped cement our culture and internally align all divisions of the company.
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Read more »How do you generate a constant stream of creative, fantastic, bizarre, untethered ideas and distill those ideas into actionable, executable building blocks for competitive advantage? Gene Tanksi, CEO of Demand Foresight, discusses how a young team member posed a challenge to the company that resulted in a transformational moment. Based in Golden, Colorado, Demand Foresight’s demand planning and forecasting software increases profitability and supply chain performance for manufacturers and distributors by guaranteeing a 25% reduction in forecasting error.
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