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Originally Posted by linereader
* Research firms have their main objective of selling 'research' papers to overpaid company suits and their hit rate is often less than the Average Joe on the street
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The Average Joe rarely knows that there is anything to "forecast".
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Originally Posted by linereader
* making forecasts to 2019 (as Forrester do) is the essence of hilarity.
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But businesses desire it and will continue to do it or pay for it. Projections are as old as organizations and one man shops, and while they are usually horribly flawed, it is a thing that people putting their money on the line will continue to do.
I think talking about the future is useful, even though we don't really know what will happen.