Author Archives: Matt Craig
April 2025
Leveraging Artificial Intelligence
Identification and Implementation Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a transformative force across industries, offering the potential to revolutionize processes, enhance decision-making, and drive innovation. However, to fully harness the power of AI, companies must strategically identify its applications and execute its integration effectively. Identifying Uses for Artificial Intelligence AI can be a powerful tool, […]
April 2025
Generative vs. Predictive Artificial Intelligence
An Analysis Artificial intelligence (AI) has become an integral part of modern technology, transforming industries and everyday life. Two prominent forms of AI are generative artificial intelligence and predictive artificial intelligence. Though they share common foundations, their applications and functionalities differ significantly. This post aims to elucidate these differences and provide a comprehensive understanding of […]
March 2025
Unveiling Revenue Streams Through Artificial Intelligence
How Artificial Intelligence Transforms Business Insights In the modern business landscape, companies amass vast amounts of data daily. This data, often referred to as “big data,” encompasses a wealth of information including customer interactions, financial transactions, operational metrics, and market trends. Harnessing this data effectively can provide companies with unprecedented insights and opportunities. One of […]
February 2025
Project Management in Banking
Project Management in Banking and How to Implement It In the dynamic world of banking, project management stands as a cornerstone for achieving strategic goals and operational excellence. The banking sector, characterized by its complexity and regulatory demands, requires meticulous planning, execution, and monitoring of projects to stay competitive and compliant. Project management provides that […]
November 2024
Technology Debt – What Is It, Do You Have It, and Why You Need to Address It
Most, if not all, businesses today rely on IT systems of one type or another to operate. In an ideal world, these will be modern IT systems that require minimal and predictable effort to maintain and operate in the same capacity as when it was first commissioned. This does not mean there will be zero […]
November 2024
A Deeper Dive Into Core Catalysts Implementation Recovery Services
Our Background in Implementation Recovery At Core Catalysts we have a leadership team with over 200 years of project implementation experience and expertise. Having “been around the block” (more than a few times), this means that, in terms of implementation, we have pretty much seen it all: the good, the bad, and the downright ugly. […]
October 2024
A Deeper Dive Into Core Catalysts Growth Services
At Core Catalysts, as part of our broad commitment to value creation, one of our key focus areas is helping client companies accelerate profitable revenue growth and control expenses. These efforts fall under the banner of what we call our suite of “Growth Services” offerings. In accelerating growth, we consider strategic growth options such as […]
October 2024
Preparing Publicly Funded and Non-profit Organizations for Their Financial Futures
Expenses rising faster than income, combined with increased revenue instability and uncertainty, are dual pressures making it harder for publicly funded and non-profit organizations to manage delivering against their missions and plan for the future. The first step in addressing these related challenges is to analyze and understand at a more granular level both income […]
October 2024
Cost Control for CIOs and CTOs
Holding the Line and Doing More, With Less In today’s dynamic business environment and economy, Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and Chief Technology Officers (CTOs) are under increasing pressure to “hold the line” and “do more with less” … all at a time when baseline IT (Information Technology) operating costs are increasing based on a variety […]
September 2024
Staying Ahead on Debt Service: Focus on Cash Management and Cost Takeouts
The upcoming debt “maturity wall” High interest rates and other borrowing costs continue to rattle businesses in all sectors of the US economy. With refinancing also becoming harder and more costly as much of the debt taken on during the pandemic (at lower rates) rapidly matures, there are fears of an upcoming debt “maturity wall” […]