Company: HCKT
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000950170-25-030037
Chunk: 136

Company: HACKETT GROUP, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 136
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 to achieve and sustain significant business performance improvement. The specific client circumstances normally dictate how they engage us. Our goal is to be responsive to client needs, and to establish a continuous and trusted relationship. We have developed a series of offerings that allow us to efficiently help our clients without regard to where they are in their respective performance improvement lifecycle.

          Correspondingly, we remain focused on executing the following strategies:

•Expanding our IP and brand market permission to our offerings. We believe that our long-term growth prospects depend on our ability to extend our unique objective and actionable value realization market permission to help our clients and strategic partners leverage our IP and proprietary platforms to define and enable our clients to achieve Digital World Class performance. Our new platforms AI XPLR and Hackett Connect allow us to deliver objective and actionable insight in new and emerging areas, such as Gen AI, and expertise in a new efficient and powerful way.   

•Continue to position and grow Hackett as an IP-centric strategic advisory organization. We believe that the Hackett brand is widely recognized for its benchmarking metrics and best practice strategies. By building a series of highly complementary market intelligence and implementation offerings that allow our clients access to our IP, which is based on our performance metrics, best practice process and technology value realization insight, we are able to build trusted strategic relationships with our clients. Depending upon where our clients are in their assessment or implementation of performance improvement initiatives, we provide them with a combination of actionable offerings that support their efforts. 

We believe that clients that leverage our IP are more likely to allow us to serve them more broadly. IP-based services enhance our opportunities to serve clients remotely, continuously and more profitably.  Our goal is to expand and accelerate the growth of our IPaaS, executive advisory and market intelligence offerings to establish strategic relationships with our clients directly or through strategic alliances and syndicated channels and to further use that entry point to introduce our business transformation and technology consulting capabilities.

 The launch of AI XPLR and the acquisition of LeewayHertz and ZBrain expand and attract new clients and alliance partners that can leverage our unique expertise, benchmarking and best practices, software configuration and process flow IP to help them differentiate and sell their software or services solutions.  

 If our clients need access to our IP and advisors to help them either assess or execute transformation initiatives on their own, they can avail themselves of our Executive Advisory and Market Intelligence Programs or our new IP Platform offerings. The key is for our clients to know that we can support them strategically by leveraging our unique