The phrase "forward-looking decisions" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe decisions that are made with an eye towards the future, as opposed to decisions based on past trends or current events. For example, "The company's Board of Directors made several forward-looking decisions in order to ensure the company's success in the years to come."
One challenge she addressed is the need for autonomous cars to make forward-looking decisions.
But I like Justin Wolfers's comment on the subject:In his research on addiction, for instance, he viewed addicts as making forward-looking decisions, deciding that today's temporary high is worth tomorrow's need for another hit.
By helping people to make forward-looking decisions for themselves that they cannot easily renege on later, they enlarge their freedom, making it possible for them to do things they otherwise could not do.
It is important to understand that anything "real-time" not only accelerates the individual transaction in issue – it also compresses virtually all subsequent transactions into a perpetually shrinking time window that is kept from lapsing into infinitesimal smallness only by our ability to audit, analyze, and integrate in forward-looking decisions.
I congratulate the Philharmoniker on making such a forward-looking decision".
"I think it was a great decision, a forward-looking decision, which actually strengthens press freedoms," Rotenberg said.
Making what they called a "forward-looking decision," the trustees hung a for-sale sign on the society's longtime home at 122 East 58th Street several years ago.
a, The forward-looking decision-maker (social planner) chooses mitigation and consumption to maximize the sum of discounted expected utilities over some time horizon.
"Major South Korean chaebol, including Samsung, are walking a thin line between transparent governance structure and fast and forward-looking decision making," Mr. Lim said.
A smart and forward-looking decision, it turns out: as is happening throughout the United States, the Pekinese have in their own local ways grown inextricably linked to the Chinese of today.
"State Long Ignored Red Flags on Test Scores" (front page, Oct. 11) doesn't mention New York City's forward-looking decision in 2007 to evaluate schools on how much each student knows at the end of the year compared with what she knew at the beginning.
