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Matt Katz Quoted In Retail Dive "Do malls have any business getting into retail?"

Matt Katz, Managing Partner and Head of Retail & Consumer Packaged Goods spoke with Retail Dive about the growing success of struggling malls forming...

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Matt Katz Featured in Retail Dive "What 6 charts say about the pandemic's impact on retail"

Matt Katz, Managing Partner and Head of Retail & Consumer Packaged Goods spoke with Retail Dive about the health, social, and economic factors that...

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Matt Katz Featured in Retail Dive "A timeline of how the pandemic hit retail"

Matt Katz, Managing Partner and Head of Retail & Consumer Packaged Goods shared his reflections regarding the impact of pandemic forces on the retail...

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"Insurtech Acquisitions Will Skyrocket" by John Rodgers Published in ThinkAdvisor

Our insurance experts, John Rodgers, and Kim Muhota shared their insights for a recent article in ThinkAdvisor on the growing popularity, and success,...

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Matt Katz Featured in Yahoo Finance "Experts Predict Which Industries Will Fail in 2021"

Insights from Matt Katz, Managing Partner and Head of Retail & Consumer Packaged Goods were featured in a Yahoo! Finance article looking at the many...

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Matt Katz Quoted in Business Insider "'Buy online and pick up in store' has emerged as an important strategy for retailers looking to avoid last-mile delivery headaches, but experts say 'BOPIS' can be difficult to get right"

Matt Katz, Managing Partner and Head of Retail & Consumer Packaged Goods spoke with Business Insider about the impact of omnichannel capabilities,...

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Matt Katz Quoted in Business Insider "Retail saw big winners and losers in 2020. Here's how experts and insiders think the winners can keep winning in 2021 — and the losers could turn things around."

Matt Katz, Managing Partner and Head of Retail & Consumer Packaged Goods shared his thoughts with Business Insider about what the upcoming year means...

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Matt Katz Quoted in Market Watch "Retail bankruptcies in 2020 hit the highest levels in more than a decade, and experts say there are more to come"

Matt Katz, Managing Partner and Head of Retail & Consumer Packaged Goods spoke with Market Watch about the record number of retail bankruptcies this...

Matt Katz Interviewed by WWD "On Staff: Fashion’s Pandemic Workforce Redux"

Matt Katz, Managing Partner and Head of Retail & Consumer Packaged Goods spoke with WWD about how digital transformation in retail has been rapidly...

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Featured Thought Leadership

The Operating Model Is the Strategy: Three Imperatives for AI in Insurance

Insurers have invested heavily in Gen/Agentic AI on the promise of transformation. Innovation labs were established. Pilots have been encouraging. Vendor...

Evolving Manufacturing Performance Management from Reporting to Flow Control

Most plants have more data today ever: OEE dashboards, real-time throughput by the hour, and quality defect rates updated every shift. Insight alone is...

Moving from Insight Generation to Enterprise Decision Execution

Many planning teams set out to improve, and they focused on forecast accuracy building scenario tools, creating real time exception reports. However, these...

The Regional Banking Earnings Paradox

Q4 2025: Record Profits, Rising Risks, and the Race Nobody Is Talking About The Quarter That Should Worry You Q4 2025 delivered a striking paradox across...

How 2025 Private Equity Forecasts Missed the Mark and What Comes Next

Private equity entered 2025 with a familiar set of expectations: meaningful rate relief, a broad rebound in deal activity, a friendlier regulatory environment,...

AI-Supported Contract Renewal Management

Gaps in contract renewal processes leave EBITDA on the table, particularly in industries with high retention rates or decentralized pricing (e.g., Software...

Recent News

Beyond the Build: Updating the Next Gen Warehouse

Warehouse operations face growing pressure from labor constraints, uncertainty, and execution complexity.

How Dashboard Sprawl Challenges Upend Enterprise Analytics

Nick Kramer shares perspectives on how dashboard sprawl and weak governance are eroding trust in enterprise analytics. As organizations expand access to...

Is Your Data Ready for the Era of AI-Powered Search?

Nick Kramer shares perspectives with Retail TouchPoints on how AI-powered search is reshaping retail discovery and why connected, contextualized data is...

Automation Theater: Why Carrier AI Investments Aren’t Showing Up in the P&L

Nick Kramer and Brian Nordyke share perspectives on why many insurance carriers are failing to realize measurable returns from AI investments. Lasting...

Generative AI ethics: 16 biggest concerns and risks

Nick Kramer shares perspectives on the governance, accountability, and operational risks organizations must address as generative AI adoption scales across...

Regions sees profits grow as business lending picks up

Pierre Buhler shares perspectives with American Banker on the improving outlook for regional banks as commercial lending activity strengthens and credit...