A method for generating business targets includes accessing data (300)
corresponding to a number of customers. The data includes variables
(310-330) associated with each of the customers and an observed value for
each of the customers. The observed value for a customer may represent
revenue associated with that particular customer. The method also
includes identifying a neighborhood that includes a first customer and a
number of the other customers. The method further includes calculating a
target for each of the customers in the neighborhood, where the target
may represent the potential revenue from each of the customers.