Cost Insights


2022 Working Capital Survey

2022 Working Capital Survey

Season 3, Episode 27

The Hackett Group Manager Damon Rottermond talks with Director Shawn Townsend and Director Istvan Bodo discuss findings from The Hackett…

Modeling Costs to Optimize Value with a Digital Twin

Modeling Costs to Optimize Value with a Digital Twin

Season 1, Episode 18

The Hackett Group Managing Director of Europe David Ketchin talked with Associate Principal Tom Kellaway about how companies can determine…

Making the Case for Technology Simplification

6 Min Read

Uncertainty in today’s business environment has raised the urgency for enterprise agility. This has in turn forced IT leaders to…

Get Rid of The Long Tail to Release Cash and Reduce Cost

4 Min Read

The current coronavirus pandemic has seriously tested the resilience and agility of every organizations’ supply chain function. Lockdowns have disrupted…

5 Steps to Building a Post-COVID ‘Cash Culture’

4 Min Read

In today’s world CFOs are analyzing daily cash inflows and outflows as organizations manage liquidity concerns but in 2020 Finance…

BPO Contracts: Your Rate Card May Be Great – But Are You Still Paying for Too Much?

2 Min Read

If you’ve been part of a Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) Managed Services contract negotiation, you understand that it is distinctly…

How To Conserve Cash in the Face of Major Disruptions?

3 Min Read

The unraveling coronavirus pandemic is disrupting supply chains and altering consumer behavior. To insulate themselves from the ravages of market…

Understanding the Benefits of Supply Chain Agility

3 Min Read

What is supply chain agility? Supply chain agility can be defined as an organization’s ability to profitably manufacture and deliver…

Taking a Strategic Approach to Sustaining Enterprise Cost Optimization

Taking a Strategic Approach to Sustaining Enterprise Cost Optimization

Enterprise cost optimization has resurfaced as a major objective, with many companies looking for a way to create lasting change.…

Three Essential Traits of Next-Generation G&A Functions

Three Essential Traits of Next-Generation G&A Functions

Automation, artificial intelligence and other technologies are poised to reshape the G&A functions. Catch-up with the trend and bring your…

US Manufacturing Sector Anticipates Sharp Sales and EPS Growth Decline in 2019

2 Min Read

Guidance issued to date by US manufacturing companies during the Q4 2018 earnings release cycle points to a sharp decline…

How US Companies Plan to Spend Their 2017 Tax Reform Windfall

2 Min Read

The 2017 tax reform was intended to incentivize US companies to repatriate overseas’ cash and use their tax savings to…

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