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March 2025
Align – Pivot – Accelerate: Developing a Technology-Enabled Business Modernization Strategy
Align – Pivot – Accelerate As technological advancements continue to accelerate, businesses face significant challenges in keeping pace with these rapid changes. The swift evolution of technology disrupts traditional methods of delivering goods and services, demanding new and innovative approaches. However, many organizations lack an effective strategy to navigate this evolving landscape, leading to potential […]
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 […]
February 2025
ERP Trouble: Four Reasons You Have It
ERP Trouble Stems from Complexity Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are the backbone of modern business operations, integrating functions across finance, supply chain, human resources, and more. However, implementing or upgrading an ERP system is no small feat. It’s a complex project that can involve significant time, resources, and change management. While many ERP vendors […]
January 2025
Executive On Demand: A Core Catalysts Special
Leadership Experience, Objectivity, and Credibility Core Catalysts excels in providing interim and fractional C-Suite executives with the power to help in complex, business-critical situations. Our deep bench of Executives on Demand (EODs) can immediately bring experience, objectivity, and credibility to your leadership team, acting either as catalysts for rapid business performance improvement or as subject […]
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 […]
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 […]