Category Archive: Insights
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” […]
September 2024
Developing a Pricing Playbook
Do You Have a Pricing Playbook? The Problems After a prolonged period of higher than historical average inflation, including large increases in many “core” input costs, you might reasonably think that most companies would now have a better understanding of their cost structures, track and monitor changes more closely, and know what to do […]
August 2024
Annual Budgeting and Strategic Planning
ARE YOU GETTING READY FOR ANNUAL BUDGETING AND STRATEGIC PLANNING? In the blink of an eye, we are already in the third quarter of 2024, meaning it will soon be time for most businesses to gear up for their annual budgeting and strategic planning. In almost every industry, markets have become more complex and variable, […]
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 […]
April 2024
Still the Best Kept Secret in Kansas City…
We posted this several years ago and get reminded often from our clients and prospects that it is “spot on” with our message. This means it comes both from our experiences and our client feedback gathered over time – and you can check our work on that! Here is THE best kept secret in Kansas […]