Hackett Group Inc. Reports Operating Results (10-K)

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Mar 10, 2011
Hackett Group Inc. (HCKT, Financial) filed Annual Report for the period ended 2010-12-31.

Hackett Group Inc. has a market cap of $161.1 million; its shares were traded at around $3.85 with a P/E ratio of 12.8 and P/S ratio of 0.8.

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On January 1, 2008, we changed our corporate name from Answerthink, Inc. (Answerthink) to The Hackett Group, Inc. (Hackett). We were originally incorporated on April 23, 1997. All prior references to Answerthink will now be reflected as Hackett as if the name change was effected for all years presented. Hackett is a global strategic advisory firm and a leader in best practice advisory, benchmarking, and transformation consulting services, including shared services, offshoring and outsourcing advice. Utilizing best practices and implementation insights from more than 5,000 benchmarking studies, executives use Hacketts empirically based approach to quickly define and prioritize initiatives to enable world-class performance. Through its Archstone Consulting group (acquired in November 2009), Hackett offers Strategy & Operations consulting services in the Consumer and Industrial Products, Pharmaceutical, Manufacturing and Financial Services industry sectors. Through its REL group, Hackett offers working capital solutions focused on delivering significant cash flow improvements. Through its Hackett Technology Solutions group (HTS), Hackett offers business application consulting services that help maximize returns on information technology (IT) investments. Hackett has worked with more than 2,800 major corporations and government agencies, including 97% of the Dow Jones Industrials, 84% of the Fortune 100, 80% of the DAX 30 and 49% of the FTSE 100.

Our benchmarking group dates back to 1991, and has measured and evaluated the efficiency and effectiveness of enterprise functions for over 2,800 organizations globally. This includes 97% of the Dow Jones Industrials, 84% of the Fortune 100, 80% of the DAX 30 and 49% of the FTSE 100. Ongoing studies are conducted in a wide range of areas, including SG&A, finance, human resources, information technology, procurement, enterprise performance management, shared service centers and working capital management. Hackett has identified over 1,900 best practices for over 95 processes in these key functional areas and uses proprietary performance measurement tools and data collection processes that enable companies to complete the performance measurement cycle and identify and quantify improvement opportunities in as little as four weeks. Benchmarks are used by our clients to objectively establish priorities, generate organizational consensus, align compensation to establish performance goals, and develop the required business case for business and technology investments.

We focus on long-term client relationships with Global 2000 firms and other sophisticated buyers of business and IT consulting services. During 2010 and 2009, our ten most significant clients accounted for approximately 26% and 28% of revenue, respectively, and one client generated 4% and 6% of total revenue, respectively. We believe that we have achieved a high level of satisfaction across our client base. The responses to our client satisfaction surveys have been positive. We receive surveys from a significant number of our engagements which are utilized in a rigorous process to improve our delivery execution, sales processes, methodologies and training.

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