HACKETT GROUP INC
For the period ended Dec 27, 2024. Filed Feb 28, 2025.
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FY2024 · Filed Feb 28, 2025
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What changed in Risk Factors?
Read the current filingPrevious report: 10-K
Period ended 2023-12-29; filed 2024-03-01.
0000950170-24-023702
Item 1A. Risk FactorsCurrent report: 10-K
Period ended 2024-12-27; filed 2025-02-28.
0000950170-25-030037
Item 1A. Risk FactorsThe baseline is this issuer’s latest earlier reporting period of the same form that was filed before the current report. A previous 10-Q is a different quarter, not a year-over-year comparison. Amendments are excluded.
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Current report
We may not be able to successfully execute on our strategy transition.
Current report
In executing our strategy to transition to a leading global IP platform-based Gen AI strategic consulting firm, we expect to create a new value-creation opportunity for us with potential for an increase in our annual recurring revenues and annual recurring licensing revenues. We cannot assure you that our Gen AI strategy will be beneficial to the extent, or within the time-frames expected. Market acceptance of Gen AI offerings is affected by a variety of factors, including technological advances, reliability, performance and information security. If we are unable to correctly respond to these issues, we may experience business disruptions, damage to our reputation, negative publicity, diminished client trust and relationships and other adverse effects on our business. Even if the anticipated benefits are substantially realized, there may be consequences or business impacts that were not expected. Our transition to focus on Gen AI may increase our risk of liability and cause us to incur significant technical, legal or other costs.
Current report
AI, presents new risks and challenges that may affect our business. We have made, and expect to continue to make investments to integrate AI into our products and solutions. Given the nature of AI technology, we face significant competition from other companies and an evolving regulatory landscape. Our AI efforts may not be successful and our competitors may incorporate AI into their products more successfully than us, which could impair our ability to compete effectively and adversely affect our financial results. The rapid evolution of AI combined with the uncertain and often inconsistent regulatory landscape may require significant additional resources and costs and could in some cases limit our ability to implement AI capabilities in our solutions or to use AI to support business operations. Despite our implementation of programs designed to support responsible AI use and development, we may not successfully address all issues that may arise. For example, privacy concerns, user consent, supply chain security, transparency and the accuracy, completeness and suitability of data sets are all potential issues that could adversely affect our business, reputation, or financial results.
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Previous wording
Global and regional economic conditions may affect our clients’ businesses and the markets they serve. A substantial or prolonged economic downturn, weak or uncertain economic conditions or similar factors could adversely affect our clients’ financial condition which may reduce our clients’ demand for our services, force price reductions, cause project cancellations, or delay consulting services for which they have engaged us. For example, the geopolitical disruption resulting from the conflicts between Russian and Ukraine and in the Middle East has created uncertainty in the global economy and could result in a reduction in spending on our services In addition, if we are unable to successfully anticipate the changing economic conditions, we may be unable to effectively plan for and respond to those changes, and our business could be negatively affected.
Current wording
Global and regional economic conditions may affect our clients’ businesses and the markets they serve. A substantial or prolonged economic downturn, weak or uncertain economic conditions or similar factors could adversely affect our clients’financial condition which may reduce our clients’ demand for our services, force price reductions, cause project cancellations, or delay consulting services for which they have engaged us. For example, the geopolitical disruption resulting from the conflicts between Russian and Ukraine and in the Middle East has created uncertainty in the global economy and could result in a reduction in spending on our services. In addition, if we are unable to successfully anticipate the changing economic conditions, we may be unable to effectively plan for and respond to those changes, and our business could be negatively affected.
Previous wording
We have derived, and believe that we will continue to derive, a significant portion of our revenue from a limited number of clients for which we perform large projects. In 2023, our ten largest clients accounted for 23% of our aggregate revenue. In addition, revenue from a large client may constitute a significant portion of our total revenue in any particular quarter. Our customer contracts generally can be cancelled for convenience by the customer upon 30 days’ notice. The loss of any of our large clients for any reason, including as a result of the acquisition of that client by another entity, our failure to meet that client’s expectations, the client’s decision to reduce spending on projects, or failure to collect amounts owed to us from our client could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
Current wording
We have derived, and believe that we will continue to derive, a significant portion of our revenue from a limited number of clients for which we perform large projects. In 2024, our ten largest clients accounted for 31% of our aggregate revenue. In addition, revenue from a large client may constitute a significant portion of our total revenue in any particular quarter. Our customer contracts generally can be cancelled for convenience by the customer upon 30 days’ notice. The loss of any of our large clients for any reason, including as a result of the acquisition of that client by another entity, our failure to meet that client’s expectations, the client’s decision to reduce spending on projects, or failure to collect amounts owed to us from our client could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
Previous wording
We may not be able to compete effectively with current or future competitors. The business consulting and IT services markets are highly competitive. We expect competition to further intensify as these markets continue to evolve. Some of our competitors have longer operating histories, larger client bases, longer relationships with their clients, greater brand or name recognition and significantly greater financial, technical and marketing resources than we do. As a result, our competitors may be in a stronger position to respond more quickly to new or emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence, and changes in client requirements and to devote greater resources than we can to the development, promotion and sale of their services. Competitors could lower their prices, potentially forcing us to lower our prices and suffer reduced operating margins. We face competition from international accounting firms; international, national and regional strategic consulting and systems implementation firms; and the IT services divisions of application software firms.
Current wording
We may not be able to compete effectively with current or future competitors. The business consulting and IT services markets are highly competitive. We expect competition to further intensify as these markets continue to evolve. Some of our competitors have longer operating histories, larger client bases, longer relationships with their clients, greater brand or name recognition and significantly greater financial, technical and marketing resources than we do. As a result, our competitors may be in a stronger position to respond more quickly to new or emerging technologies, such as AI, and changes in client requirements and to devote greater resources than we can to the development, promotion and sale of their services. Competitors could lower their prices, potentially forcing us to lower our prices and suffer reduced operating margins. We face competition from international accounting firms; international, national and regional strategic consulting and systems implementation firms; and the IT services divisions of application software firms.