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Leading Through Abnormal Change
Recently, much attention has been spent hypothesizing about how the final phase of recovery for COVID-19 will manifest and impact the future in the New...
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Matt Katz Quoted in Retail TouchPoints "Are Today’s Retail Leaders Qualified To Manage The Post-COVID-19 Future?"
Matt Katz, Managing Partner and Head of Retail & Consumer Packaged Goods, was recently quoted in Retail TouchPoints on his vision for retail in a post-coronavirus...
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Matt Katz Quoted in WWD "Retail Bankruptcy Test Subjects Line Up"
Matt Katz, Managing Partner and Head of Retail & Consumer Packaged Goods, was recently featured in a WWD article looking at the complexities of retail...
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Matt Katz Featured in "Looking Ahead: Building to-Do Lists for a Post-Quarantine World"
Matt Katz, Managing Partner and Head of Retail & Consumer Packaged Goods, was recently featured alongside other global executives in WWD on their vision...
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Embracing Flexibility to Navigate Crisis
Organizations are entering a “New Abnormal”—the uncertain period between now and when the COVID-19 crisis has truly subsided. CEOs have never faced a crisis...
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Matt Katz and Nick Kramer Quoted in Retail TouchPoints "Why Contactless Fulfillment Popularity Could Last Well Beyond COVID-19"
Matt Katz, Managing Partner and Head of Retail & Consumer Packaged Goods, and Nick Kramer, Vice President of Digital and Analytics, were quoted in...
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Nick Kramer and John Blankenbaker Quoted in Retail TouchPoints "Embrace Behavior-Rich Intent Data To Enhance Marketing, Merchandising And Pricing"
Nick Kramer, Vice President Digital and Analytics, and John Blankenbaker, Principal Data Scientist, were quoted in a Retail TouchPoints special report...
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Matt Katz Quoted in CNN Business "Some retailers are too broke to go bankrupt"
Matt Katz, Managing Partner and Head of Retail & Consumer Packaged Goods, was quoted in CNN Business on how struggling retailers are navigating bankruptcy...
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Reemergence: Preparing for the New Abnormal
COVID-19 has shocked the retail and consumer world. For some, an entire season (or two) of merchandise has gone unsold in brick-and-mortar stores across...
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Processes Are Hiding EBITDA
Digitally Enabled Process Improvement℠ turns AI ambition into results a buyer will pay for Sixty-nine percent of S&P 500 companies now point to a live...
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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...
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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
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...
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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...
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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,...

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Data foundations for AI success
How CarGurus Cleared the Roadblocks to its AI Initiatives
Nick Kramer shares perspectives with TechTarget on why reliable, accessible data is essential to AI success. As businesses scale AI, clear ownership, consistent...
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Processes Are Hiding EBITDA
Digitally Enabled Process Improvement℠ turns AI ambition into results a buyer will pay for Sixty-nine percent of S&P 500 companies now point to a live...
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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
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?
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
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...