Author Archives: Core Catalysts Staff
January 2025
Unlocking the Power of Agile Requirements
How Non-Agile Organizations Can Benefit from Agile Methodology Why Agile Requirements Matter Agile as an iterative approach to software development and project management focused on collaboration, flexibility, and customer satisfaction. While Agile is often associated with rapid development cycles and adaptive planning, it’s also a powerful framework for requirements gathering. Agile requirements are intentionally flexible […]
June 2024
Our Approach to Application Development Consulting
How Our High-Value, Purpose-Built Application Development Services Deliver Results Across the Board. When your organization requests IT consulting services from Core Catalysts, you can expect a highly intentional process that not only delivers results, but establishes a sustainable legacy and long-term success. Core Catalysts knows that challenges such as application development require more than […]
June 2024
The Core Catalysts Approach to Program and Project Management
Get to Know the Key Differentiators That Help Our Clients Succeed. Your business initiatives require objective, targeted leadership to ensure your organization meets or even surpasses benchmarks. You want to see strategically driven progress in action and feel the assurance that only an expert program and project management consulting firm can deliver. Core Catalysts takes […]
June 2024
How to Construct an Effective RFP
How to Construct an Effective RFP: An Industry-Standard Approach to the RFP Process At Core Catalysts, we are regularly asked to assist department decision makers and procurement professionals with an RFP (meaning “request for proposal”) to support their purchasing decisions. We provide management consulting for our nationwide list of clients in critical industries, including insurance, […]
May 2024
A Pragmatic, Phased Approach to System Modernization
Find Out How We Reduce Technology Debt For Our Clients: Core Catalysts consults for a wide range of clients in several critical industries, including financial services, healthcare, insurance, telecommunications, and more. In today’s technology-forward business world, we find that many clients cite system modernization as one of the major business challenges they need our […]
November 2023
Revenue Creation Health Check
Creating a Roadmap to Sustainable Growth: Revenue is the undisputed lifeblood of a company, yet its creation often goes unexamined. While it’s common for companies to perform comprehensive financial audits and operational, risk, and IT assessments, it’s rare for companies to assess their revenue creation activities in the same way. In reality, most companies manage […]
October 2023
EPMO in 2023
John F. Kennedy said that “Change is the law of life.” His thoughts certainly are appropriate for the current state of employment in the US. We have seen such dramatic changes since the “Great Resignation” in 2021. During 2021, we experienced record breaking changes in employment. In fact, 2021 delivered the highest average on record […]
April 2022
EPMO and Attrition
During 2021, we experienced record breaking changes in employment. In fact, 2021 delivered the highest average on record for employees leaving their employer, which equated to an average of 3.9 million resignations each month. You may be thinking that is old news, or you may be thinking it really isn’t that important. What these staggering […]
September 2020
Overspending: How to Minimize Costs
Even during the best of times, reducing costs and increasing revenue are the best ways to keep your business healthy. Right now, identifying and reducing areas of excess spending is a critical priority. Here are a few areas that we frequently see overspending: Internet and Telecommunications Even before the increases in video-conferencing, communication and accessibility […]