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Bass Model of New Product Sales, Excel tool, New Product Sales Forecasting

Announcing a New Gadget for Exploring Product Life Cycle, Penetration and Sales Forecast Curves with the Bass Model

 A New Gadget Is Born Change the Bass Model parameters M, p and q to explore.  Use the sliders to watch the curves change. How I Built this Gadget To make this little jewel, I used Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 to create a Silverlight gadget, which is hosted in this blog page.  The Silverlight gadget…

Bass Model of New Product Sales, Excel tool, New Product Sales Forecasting

Forecast Joy is Making Excel Tools for Technology Market Forecasters

I have been thinking about tools for technology market forecasters (like me) for many, many years.  I’ve even completed a few would-be products (e..g, Excel add-ins).  Now I envision a Web-centric service and am building it here. Penetration Curve The first step in any market forecast is the penetration curve, which is a sequence of points each providing the…