18 Jul, 2024 The Cost of Learning: How Inflation and Consumer Sentiment Are Reshaping Spending By Chris Ventry Keith Jelinek Frank Jones The Ankura Back-to-School Shopping Report 2024 Ankura's Performance Improvement team surveyed more than 1,000 U.S. consumers who are...
09 Jul, 2024 Political Nexus in Indian Startups: Essential Checks for Investors By Amit Jaju As the Indian startup ecosystem continues to thrive, attracting substantial investments from around the globe, investors are increasingly...
10 Jun, 2024 Transforming Merchandise Planning with Ankura By Michael Casey Jesse Lehman Sara Bakacs Executive Summary In the dynamic world of merchandise planning, many companies have long relied on the versatility and user-friendliness...
07 Jun, 2024 UK Economic Indicators By Craig Bowen In this latest report, the UK Economic Indicator, our Performance Improvement team provides an overview of the macroeconomy and insight...
03 Jun, 2024 Do You Know How To Select and Manage Your ERP Solutions Implementer (SI)? By Mirinda Lowe John Baltz Having “rescued” dozens of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementations, what we see as the absolute key to success is the...
29 May, 2024 Ankura Monthly Economic Indicators Overview [May 2024] By Keith Jelinek Rick Maicki Consumer debt continues to climb. Total household debt rose by $184 billion to reach $17.69 trillion; mortgage balances increased by $190...
20 May, 2024 Purchase Price Allocations of Software Companies [Data Study] By Paul Richards John Ciancanelli Ankura's analysis of the 2023 purchase price allocation for transactions involving software and IT services companies by U.S.-based...
26 Mar, 2024 Ankura Monthly Economic Indicators Overview [March 2024] By Keith Jelinek Rick Maicki In February, the U.S. economy showed mixed performance. Consumer sentiment remained stable, with little change since January. Personal...
22 Mar, 2024 When the Stakes Are High: Managing a Crisis-Led Investigation From Incident to Remediation By Lorynn Demetriades Alecia Futerman An investigative journalist implicates the company. An auditor threatens to resign. Premises are raided by enforcement agencies. Not all...
22 Feb, 2024 Ankura Monthly Economic Indicators Overview [February 2024] By Keith Jelinek Rick Maicki In January, U.S. consumer outlook saw a significant rise in the University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Survey, with sentiment up by...
08 Feb, 2024 From Forecasts to Checkout: Reflections on 2023 Holiday Retail Predictions By Chris Ventry Ben Kim The 2023 holiday shopping season has officially ended, and consumers have packed away their holiday décor to peacefully collect dust...
02 Feb, 2024 Guiding AI With a Human Touch: How AI’s Limitations Make Us More Valuable, Not Less By Brad Lohmeyer Like much of the world, I have watched with fascination as new Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies rolled out over the last year....