The Hackett Group's Business Advisory programs provide a trusted source of fact-based insight to executives who are responsible for strategic and day-to-day management. You can quickly asses how well your organization performs and accelerate your journey to peak performance. Join today to find out how well you perform and quantify the costs of not measuring up.

Hackett's Business Advisory and Executive Advisory programs include:

Business Advisory: World-class performance defined.

The Hackett Group's comprehensive database of performance metrics and business best practices is unmatched, enabling us to empirically define world-class performance, based on our experience gained from more than 5,000 benchmark studies since 1992. All members to our Executive Advisory programs receive access to this data.

Join one or more of our Business Advisory Programs and access insights right from your desktop.

Leverage the collective insight of the world's best businesses and Hackett business advisors, right from your desktop. Through the Business Advisory Member Center, subscribers can have unlimited access to a searchable, online library of information, business best practices resources, including:

  • The Hackett Group's Best Practices Intelligence Center
  • Research reports and papers based on The Hackett Group's objective data
  • Member-contributed presentations and tools

Business Advisor Access

The Hackett Group's inquiry service provides Business Advisory members with quick access to fact-based advice on proven approaches and methods to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of sales, general and administrative activities.

Best Practice Intelligence Center

The Hackett Group's Best Practice Intelligence Center contains business best practices based on our study of world-class organizations. The only source of empirically proven business best practices for enterprise general and administrative function performance, the Best Practices Intelligence Center helps Executive Advisory members to reduce risk, accelerate time-to-benefit, and enhance the return on your investment for process improvement initiatives. It offers to Business Advisory members one-click access to best practices, quick wins, process taxonomy, performance optimization approaches, performance metrics, business benchmarking data, and detailed implementation considerations for each best practice, including associated risks and mitigation strategies. Learn More

Book of Numbers™

Our Book of Numbers™ research reports provide Business Advisory members with an empirically based portrait of performance metrics and enabling practices, including Hackett-Certified™ business best practices that correlate with world-class performance. Each Book of Numbers™ research report identifies trends and emerging practices, and typically features more than 50 detailed charts.

Business Benchmarking and Performance Studies

These online surveys collect data on issues of immediate interest to executives. Business Advisory members can benchmark their responses and receive customized as well as composite results from the studies. Learn More

Business Advisory Member Events

Executive Advisory members receive exclusive invitations to events featuring both advisor-led presentations showcasing an adoption-specific best practice or technique, as well as member-led discussions highlighting practices implemented in real-world settings. These sessions encourage peer interaction through learning about the successes and challenges of similar executives leading significant change initiatives.

What you can expect to gain:

  • Learn how your business performance compares with world-class performance
  • Discover quantified opportunities for performance improvement
  • Build the business case to garner internal support for change
  • Defend resource requirements based on empirical data
  • Find out the lessons learned from top-performing companies

What is world-class performance?

The Hackett Value Grid

The Hackett Value Grid™ clearly shows your firm's performance in comparison to world-class and a relevant peer group. Only those firms that reach the top quartile in both effectiveness and efficiency metrics meet the Hackett definition of world-class. Our statistical definition of world-class is measured through a proprietary formula for weighting costs, cycle times, error rates and other key performance metrics.