Jordan Goldmeier is a management consultant, author, speaker, producer and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP). He is the owner of Cambia Factor (www.cambiafactor.com), a data consulting agency, where he challenges companies and institutions to rethink how they collect, work with and interpret data. He has provided spreadsheet-based decision support services to the NATO Training Mission in Afghanistan, the Pentagon, Navy, Air Force and Army as well as training and consultation to private financial institutions in big data analytics and data visualization. Jordan is a producer for and host of Excel TV, a web series dedicated to talking to and learning from Excel experts. He has been awarded the prestigious MVP award from Microsoft for his technical and community contributions. His new book, Advanced Excel Essentials (Apress 2015), is available at apress.com/9781484207352 or on his website.
Once, a colleague of mine became enamored with a new forecasting technology whose “targets” he consistently beat. In time, however, his performance became markedly closer to the forecast “targets,” often missing them by only a small amount.
