Gen AI Breakthrough

Covid has left its mark on working capital performance. The Hackett Group Principal Brian Hall interviews Senior Director Gerhard Urbasch on the results from our latest working capital survey, breaking down performance for receivables, payable, and inventory, and offering strategies companies can use to make improvements in each area.

Nilly Essaides, Senior Research Director, Finance Advisory talks with Jason Logman, Principal, Finance Transformation about how companies are transforming their FP&A operations. The pandemic has caused many companies to expect more from FP&A. By utilizing cutting edge technology, focusing on key drivers, and more, FP&A can improve agility and offer greater insight that can drive improv...

The Hackett Group Associate Principal Franco Girimonte and Senior Director HR Research Anthony DiRomualdo discuss findings from The Hackett Group’s 2021 HR Key Issues research, including how the pandemic has required HR to step up and play a greater role as a strategic advisor to the business. HR’s ability to enable high-performing organizational culture and better align talent with business needs...

The Hackett Group North American GBS Program Leader Penny Weller talks with Managing Director, Advisory Practice Leader, Europe Martijn Geerling about the results from The Hackett Group’s 2021 Global Business Services Key Issues Study. The study in part charts how the global pandemic is impacting on strategic priorities and initiatives for GBS organizations as they continue to mature, from a large...

The Hackett Group’s Laura Gibbons talks with Chris Sawchuk, Principal and Global Procurement Advisory Practice Leader, about findings from the 2021 Procurement Key Issues study, which shows a dramatic shift in procurement priorities, including an increased emphasis on reducing supply risk, accelerating digital transformation, enhancing advanced analytics capabilities, and greater focus on diversit...

Nilly Essaides, Senior Director of Research at The Hackett Group’s Finance Advisory Program talks with Tom Willman, Principal and Lead for Finance Advisory about how the pandemic has changed finance priorities for 2021. The pandemic has made it critical for finance to improve its ability to act as a strategic business advisor, cut costs and enhance effiiciency, and accelerate digital transformatio...

Exec VP Dave Sievers talks with Supply Chain Practice Leader Bob Allen and Principal Josh Nelson about the results from our 2021 Supply Chain Key Issues Research, which detailed how the pandemic made supply chain a top priority for most companies. The research found that integrated business planning was a key to enable companies to pivot quickly when the pandemic hit. The panelists also detail how...

Chris Key, global IT advisory practice leader for The Hackett Group, discusses findings from our IT Key issues research with Rick Pastore, senior research director. With digital transformation at the top of the enterprise agenda for 2021, IT must drive digital transformation within its own organization, in order to more effectively support enterprise transformation. But IT is behind the curve, hav...

The Hackett Group’s Chris Sawchuk talks with Nic Walden, procurement senior advisor, about the challenges with today’s typical procurement operating model, what changes can be made, the impact on procurement strategy and the increased demand for procurement agility and improved predictive capabilities.

Stephanie Marchuk, manager at The Hackett Group, talks with Chief Human Resources Officer and Advisory Principal Harry Osle about key vital signs for measuring the health of a human resources (HR) organization. Harry discusses some of the strategies that world-class HR organizations use to improve efficiency, while also delivering greater effectiveness and providing more strategic value.

Chris Key, senior director at The Hackett Group, talks with Allan Frank, The Hackett Group’s co-founder, about how the pandemic has accelerated the evolution toward true cross-functional collaboration for knowledge workers and others across the enterprise.

Host Nilly Essaides talks with Bryan Hall, The Hackett Group’s principal and finance transformation leader, about how the pandemic has changed the chief financial officer (CFO) agenda for 2020, and the emerging priorities for 2021, including dealing with ongoing uncertainty, continuing digital transformation, improving analytics capabilities, tightening cash flow management, and enhancing the abil...

Laura Gibbons, The Hackett Group’s senior director, interviews Chris Sawchuk, The Hackett Group’s principal, on the results of our 2020 Procurement Key Issues survey. They discuss how the pandemic has caused procurement priorities to shift in areas such as digital transformation, risk management, talent and skills, social responsibility, and more.

Covid has represented a roller coaster for the human resources function. The Hackett Group’s North American Advisory Practice Leader Franco Girimonte talks with Senior Research Director Tony DiRomualdo about how the pandemic has changed HR’s role and provided an opportunity for HR to prove its value to the organization by playing a key role in maintaining business continuity. While the pandemic ha...

Two of Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings’ lead IT executives – CIO and SVP of Operations and Governance Dimple Jethani, and CIO and SVP of Enterprise Applications and Emerging Technology Scott Piccolo – discuss how the company’s IT organization has responded to the global pandemic, and the IT challenges and opportunities presented by the next normal.