Strategy and Consulting

As a Project Manager, there is an art to keeping a project moving forward, while maintaining happiness across all parties. The fundamental responsibilities include scope, budget, and timeline.  Like many project managers, I have had these three drilled into my head as my remit.  But what does that actually mean? Well it depends.  In 12+ […]

Interpersonal skills are a project manager’s (PM) ace in the hole. Whether you’re working on a large initiative or a simpler project with a shorter timeline, your ability to build real, honest relationships with your colleagues will yield much better project outcomes and lead to a happier and trusting team. Here are four key soft […]

I was super excited when I first heard that Perficient’s Jim Hertzfeld and Kim Williams-Czopek were interviewing Mark Cuban, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, Shark Tank host and investor, and entrepreneur, on their What If So What? podcast. Not entirely surprising, but Cuban said more people probably know him as the “Shark Tank guy” […]

Check out the latest episode of Perficient’s “What If? So What?” podcast with our special guest – entrepreneur, Dallas Mavericks owner, and star of TV’s “Shark Tank,” Mark Cuban! Mark and our hosts discuss his most memorable Shark Tank technology products, how to remain relevant to customers across generations, and why he’s excited to be […]

In this episode, Jim talks with Matt Nolan, Sr. Director of Product Marketing, Decision Sciences at Pegasystems, about why personalization is on everyone’s radar, how it has evolved, and what it means today. Subscribe Where You Listen Apple | Spotify | Amazon | Google | Stitcher Meet our Guest Matthew Nolan is the head of […]

Ask many colleagues, and they will cite career growth as one of the primary drivers of their satisfaction and success at Perficient. It’s no surprise that Perficient takes career growth seriously, as evidenced by programs like Growth for Everyone, our People Promise, and the Career Growth Panels sponsored by the Women In Tech ERG (employee […]

Amid the disruption wrought by the Great Resignation (the informal name for the widespread trend of a significant number of workers leaving their jobs during COVID-19) and the chorus of companies yearning for “normalcy” to return, this change management professional would suggest “normal” was a trigger for the exodus, to begin with. In fact, forget […]

So, you’re the CEO of a national banking corporation or a national savings bank. Therefore, your primary federal bank regulator is the Office of the Controller of the Currency (OCC). The OCC conducts frequent on-site examinations as they investigate, prepare, and then issue its reports of examination. Not only do you and your staff get […]

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”) issued a letter (1179) that national banks and federal savings associations must demonstrate that they have adequate controls in place before they can engage in cryptocurrency, distributed ledger, and stablecoin activities. The OCC had issued multiple Interpretive Letters in 2020 and earlier this year related to […]

Perficient recently conducted a survey that asked executives from enterprise organizations about their current and future marketing technology (martech) investments and strategy. (See the findings from the full survey here.) The data revealed many insights into how companies pivoted over the last year in response to the pandemic and how they plan to change moving […]

Recognizing that regulated and non-regulated financial institutions seek to engage in cryptocurrency and crypto asset activities, the three largest federal bank regulators, the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, recently issued a joint statement on crypto assets. The regulators broadly defined crypto assets as any […]

This is the eighth and final in a series of blog posts sharing the results of our study on the business value of experience design. In this post, we explore the power of creativity to stir excitement, reduce anxiety and express the company’s values to help it stand out from the competition. Earlier this year, […]