Based on four decades of experience and research, Navigating Strategic Decisions: The Power of Sound Analysis and Forecasting explains how to improve the decision-making process in your organization through the use of better long-term forecasts and decision support. Filled with time-tested methodologies and models, it provides you with the tools to establish the organization, processes, methods, and techniques required for analyzing and forecasting strategic decisions.Describing how to foster the conditions required for forecasts to materialize, this book will help you rank project valuations and select higher value creation projects. It also teaches you how to:Assess the commercial feasibility of large projectsApply sanity checks to forecasts and assess their resource implicationsBenchmark best-in-class strategic forecasting organizations, processes, and practicesIdentify project risks and manage project uncertaintyAnalyze forecasting models and scenarios to determine controllable leversPinpoint factors needed to ensure that forecasted future states materialize as expectedThis book provides you with the benefit of the author's decades of hands-on experience. In this book, John Triantis shares valuable insights on strategic planning, new product development, portfolio management, and business development groups. Describing how to provide world-class support to your corporate, market, and other planning functions, the book provides you with the tools to consistently make improved decisions that are based on hard data, balanced evaluations, well considered scenarios, and sound forecasts.