Management Consulting

While the number of healthcare M&A transactions continues to recover since the COVID-19 pandemic, the overwhelming majority of organizations still fail to realize their intended M&A value. This is often due to unclearly defined business imperatives, poor program planning, and lack of discipline around establishing necessary initial guardrails. There are however, some best practices that […]

Market pressures are motivating both hospitals and health systems to seek operational, strategic, or financial value through consolidation. The yearly number of hospital M&A transactions has grown over the past decade. While healthcare M&A slowed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are once again starting to see deal volume grow at a rate that’s overwhelming […]

According to industry research, 73% of all people point to customer experience as an important factor in their purchasing decisions. Moreover, customers in the financial services industry are increasingly interested in using their go-to firm to cover more of their needs, rather than using multiple providers. To meet the needs of their customers, banks are creating […]

FINRA member participation in TRACE is mandatory and obligates members to submit transaction reports in TRACE-eligible securities to conform with the Rule 6700 Series. Getting started requires a member to complete a FINRA Transparency Services Participation Agreement (FPA) version 1.4, found on the FINRA website, and then submit the signed form via the FINRA Firm […]

Perficient’s team of Atlassian experts help clients with all of their tooling and process needs. The team is comprised of a cross-functional group of consultants and architects with backgrounds in agile coaching, project management, system administration, engineering, quality assurance, and automation. Certified professionals work across the full Atlassian product suite (and Marketplace applications) including Jira, […]

Risk Myth Busters – Unlock the myths about Risk Management Myth 1: Risk management is waste of time and money: If the head of the house hadn’t thought about safeguarding the house, his house could be ransacked or collapsed. If the health patient hadn’t thought about health insurance, the patient could spend his life savings […]

With inflation at a 40-year high and the economic ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic still looming, many people are falling into delinquency, making revamping outdated debt collection practices a higher priority for financial institutions than ever. In their recent webinar, The ROI on Transforming Credit and Lending Customer Outreach, Perficient’s Byron Gifford and Scott Albahary […]

When first starting out your career as an IT consultant, it can prove quite overwhelming. The typical implementation stages for a traditional waterfall project are requirements gathering, solution design, build, user testing, and application deployment. For a project to be a success, not only does the lead consultant/solution architect have to understand the technical aspects […]

When Perficient senior project manager Morgan McNeal was assigned to collaborate with Xcel Energy to create a plan to revamp their arc flash safety electrical program, she had no idea what she was getting herself into. But, three years and a withstanding partnership with Xcel Energy engineer Eduardo Ramirez Bettoni later, she is now an […]

Arc flash is a type of uncontrolled electrical discharge that occurs when an electric current strays from its intended path and travels through the air from one conductor to another. They most often occur in electricity and power plants, or any place that uses electrical equipment such as substations and transmission lines. Arc flashes are […]

Bob Vanek is the chief strategist for Perficient’s supply chain practice. He has more than 20 years of experience managing project delivery across various industries and consulting environments. Denver & Dentists Madeline McDermott: Where were you born? Bob Vanek: Fort Dix, New Jersey. MM: Where did you go after? BV: When I was about six […]

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 […]