2) Judgemental Forecasts:

A manager may, at times, request opinions from other managers and personnel. These are

called outside opinions. Sometimes, external specialists are required to assist with a forecast.

Guidance may be required on economic or political circumstances in America or a foreign

nation, or some other feature of significance with which an organization is unfamiliar. A few

examples of outside opinions are given below.

 Jerusalem Demsas, the Atlantic writer, has endlessly recorded that America

makes it very simple for its citizens to obstruct energy and housing projects by

filing lawsuits. Not only do locals in America have a tendency of NIMBYism

as mentioned by Demsas, there are actual laws that allow people to prevent

any development from taking place.

 The breakthrough in nuclear fusion will not have immediate effect in the

energy sector. Because more progresses are required in efficiency and quality

to make the fusion reactors a feasible product.

 The cost to make innovative technologies like solar energy is decreasing as the

distribution of materials to make those technologies is becoming efficient

which ultimately makes the companies more experienced in this field.

 Federal policy can play a vital role in the process of making innovative

technologies a feasible product or be a barrier for it e.g. wind turbines. Not

being able to invest or not investing in the emerging technologies can have big

effect in U.S. welfare and security.

A small group of top-level managers, for example, those in finance, operations

and marketing may meet and generally create a forecast. As far as new

product development and long-range planning is concerned, this viewpoint is

 frequently used. It has the privilege of assembling the substantial

understanding and expertise of different managers. Here, the managers must

have knowledge beyond their area of expertise if they want their forecast to be

successful which means these are called executive opinions. A few examples

of executive opinions are given below.

 A professor of law at UC Berkeley, Robert Kagan, believes Demsas’s

opinion to be adverse conformity. In his conversation with Ezra Klein,

the New York Times writer, he has said that unadaptable systematic

rules are a trademark of the United States. The US must make it more

difficult for it’s citizens to hinder progress if it wishes to build what it

invents.

 Construction writer Brian Potter has stated that by 1986, ninety-six

percent of the globe’s wind-generated electricity was in the state of

California.

3) Recommendations related to strategic capacity planning:

 With improvements in productivity and dependability, scientists will need to

expand on the fusion reaction that influenced the world.

 The government must be mindful of the implications of underinvesting in

developing technologies that could have a significant impact on US prosperity

and energy safety.

 Unchecked historic conservation regulations can prevent any new building in a

neighbourhood, which is a terrible regulation that needs to be changed.

 If the US wants to build what they originate, they must make it more difficult

for recurrent NIMBYism among the locals to obstruct development.

 The FDA might study quick substitutes for the acceptance of cancer-

prevention medications escalating the creation of life-saving drugs without

using any tax dollars for investigation.

 To guarantee that they have availability to the resources to construct what they

need, the US requires a policy of profound ampleness.

 Federal and state subsidies, together with NASA expenditures, helped advance

wind turbine technology.

 The U.S. requires an availability of the metals required to make the clean-

energy equipment in order to have an excess of clean energy.