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Your Challenges:

• “We want to be first to market with important insights for our customers and provide meaningful value to our customer executives.”

  —CEO, UK-based Services Company

• “Our idea backlog is escalating and there is no effective way to pick out the right ideas, plus competitors are beating us to market with new innovative products.”

  —Technology Leader, Global Mobile Solutions Company

• “We have to prepare for lots of different futures, and doing so creates expense. If we really knew what the future held, we could just prepare for that.”

  —CEO, Retail Company

• “I want a way to spot trends ahead of time, like an early warning indicator in my car.”

  —General Manager, Retail Business Unit

• “We need to accelerate innovation processes that yield more high quality growth ideas. Traditional methods we have tried fall short.”

  —General Manager, Diversified Multinational Business

• “Our forecasts are rarely accurate, leading to missed expectations. We need a way to get leading indicators to track and manage emerging risks.”

  —Theater General Manager, Global Agricultural Company

Consensus Point Chief Scientist Robin Hanson and John Stossel provide an excellent overview of prediction markets and how they work.

Dr. Hanson appeared on Stossel on Fox Business on Friday, Feb 18, 2011.