Ganeshan comments on the recent Foresight article by Gonul, Onkal, and Goodwin about whether and why forecasts should be trusted. (Issue 27, Fall 2012) Copyright International Institute of Forecasters, 2012

This paper examines the association between the structure of formal intra-firm networks and productivity. We focus on two network structure components-department centralization and centrality, within a four department engineering organization. Centrality indicates the number of connections...

B2Bs are online markets where buyers and sellers trade products either in the spot market or via derivate instruments such as option contracts. Our goal in this paper is to show how procurement managers, in addition to buying on the spot market in cash (physical transactions), can integrate risk...

Organizational knowledge is a critical source of competitive advantage for professional service firms. Learning from experience and sustaining past knowledge are critical to the success of such knowledge-driven firms. We use learning curve theory to evaluate learning and depreciation in...

Ganeshan comments on Steve Morlidge’s articles on Guiding Principles of the Forecasting process (published in Foresight, issues 22 and 23). Copyright International Institute of Forecasters, 2012

In this paper, we examine the dynamics of a supply chain that has the option of using two suppliers - one reliable, and the other unreliable. We characterize the unreliable supplier with long lead-time mean and variance. Although the use of the unreliable supplier might potentially warrant...