Strategy and Transformation

I’m speaking at MuleSoft CONNECT, May 8 – 10 in San Jose, CA. Join me at the premier conference for digital business, where CIOs, IT leaders and developers come together to exchange ideas and pragmatic insights on driving business transformation! www.connect.mulesoft.com/2018 If you plan to come speaking sessions, please note the time just got updated! I […]

For those in the Detroit area, the Perficient office in Livonia is hosting the SouthEast Michigan Atlassian User Group (AUG) on April 24th.  The SouthEast Michigan AUG meets the last Tuesday of every other month for the 2018 year.  The AUG commonly meets in the Livonia/Detroit Perficient office for the Tuesday evening event, followed by […]

At the end of 2017, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) estimated that multiemployer plans were underfunded by $65.1 billion, an increase of $6.3 billion from the end of 2016. The Budget Act of 2018 established the “Joint Select Committee on Solvency of Multiemployer Pension Plans.” This committee held its first meeting on March 14, […]

Before I’m labeled as a “visual design hater,” you should know that I was a visual designer for five years and a creative director for 10 years. I left the creative side of the house for two reasons. I felt a lot of people were better designers than I was and I became obsessed with […]

A bank’s response to Part 370 will require a multi-year, multi-functional program that could encompass dozens of individual projects. Given the scope and scale of affected institutions, most will already have several layers of project management responsible for different areas of the business. A strong response to Part 370 will need to integrate those different […]

Total Retail recently released its annual ranking of the top 100 publicly traded retailers, and athletic wear company Lids Sports Group found themselves in the #1 position. We are thrilled for our client Lids on this recognition, and for its commitment to continuously transforming itself to compete, win, and differentiate in an increasingly sophisticated omnichannel […]

Digital innovation continues to disrupt industries at lightning speed. Today’s organizations are transforming their entire business – from strategy to operations, technology to culture – to better deliver value to their customers. In 2017, we compiled the top 10 trends leaders needed to know when it came to their digital transformation journey. In this 10-week […]

What You Missed in Salesforce News — April 16, 2018 Salesforce Acquires Mulesoft and Announces Integration Cloud Think About the “Who”: Tips for Using Change Management for a Successful Transition to Lightning The Need for a Seamless Shopping Experience Dealing with the Disengaged: Transforming Unhappy Staff into Productive and Engaged Employees Pardot Introduces Emoji 8 […]

When it left the House of Representatives in December 2017, the Tax Reform and Jobs Act carried several changes to the limits that should be placed on hardship withdrawals. While those changes never made it to the final version, many of them are included in the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018. These include: Plans may […]

Your strategy has a lot to do with your results. I grew up with the phrase, “It’s easier to catch a bear with honey than with vinegar.” While I never had the goal to literally catch a bear, the strategy of finding out what appeals to bears is likely to be a successful strategy for catching […]

In order to support the initial and ongoing response to Part 370, most organizations will need to implement new processes around data and account management, reporting, and file generation. While each of these process updates can happen individually under those projects, it would be beneficial for a company to take a holistic approach to process […]

When we think of multi-generational plans in the technology world, we’re usually thinking about our approach to rollout with more than one phase – an implementation so large that it can’t, or shouldn’t, be rolled out in one fell swoop. We rightfully scope the work into bite-sized chunks that will lead us to long term […]