Essay Strategic IT Transformation at Accenture
Case Study Paper
American Philosophical Association Guidelines
Adriana I. Barrera Palomino
Endicott College
BUA 581 Managing Information Systems
Case Study: Strategic IT Transformation at Accenture
Professor Karaganis
12 November, 2013
Accenture is today one of the world’s leading organizations providing management consulting, technology and outsourcing services, with approximately 275,000 employees. Accenture has offices and operations in more than 200 cities in 56 countries and net revenues of $28.6 billion for fiscal 2013. Over a decade ago, Accenture was part of the group Arthur Andersen. Arthur Andersen was founded in 1913 to meet the requirements of new tax regulations enacted when the Federal Reserve System was established that same year. In 1989, due to the market’s consultation needs, the firm decided to split its business in two different entities. Andersen Consulting for market consultation and Arthur Andersen for auditing. Andersen Consulting experienced a strong growth since its starts up as a division of the group Arthur Andersen. In December 1997, this last division decided to began a process of arbitration. The process required the separation of Andersen consultation division from the financial audit firm. Finally, this is how the consulting division got its independence in a $175 million rebranded campaign by paying $1 billion to Andersen. The new company was renamed Accenture on January 01, 2001.
In the beginning, the Accenture launch was supported as a new independent business company. Accenture had the right to use Andersen’s Technology infrastructure for one year while they created their own IT infrastructure. They needed to create new IT infrastructures that exceed the functions of the old platform. The main aspects they had into account were: easy interconnection of the applications with each other, access to the platform from the Internet when and where necessary, and unification of the
American Philosophical Association Guidelines
Adriana I. Barrera Palomino
Endicott College
BUA 581 Managing Information Systems
Case Study: Strategic IT Transformation at Accenture
Professor Karaganis
12 November, 2013
Accenture is today one of the world’s leading organizations providing management consulting, technology and outsourcing services, with approximately 275,000 employees. Accenture has offices and operations in more than 200 cities in 56 countries and net revenues of $28.6 billion for fiscal 2013. Over a decade ago, Accenture was part of the group Arthur Andersen. Arthur Andersen was founded in 1913 to meet the requirements of new tax regulations enacted when the Federal Reserve System was established that same year. In 1989, due to the market’s consultation needs, the firm decided to split its business in two different entities. Andersen Consulting for market consultation and Arthur Andersen for auditing. Andersen Consulting experienced a strong growth since its starts up as a division of the group Arthur Andersen. In December 1997, this last division decided to began a process of arbitration. The process required the separation of Andersen consultation division from the financial audit firm. Finally, this is how the consulting division got its independence in a $175 million rebranded campaign by paying $1 billion to Andersen. The new company was renamed Accenture on January 01, 2001.
In the beginning, the Accenture launch was supported as a new independent business company. Accenture had the right to use Andersen’s Technology infrastructure for one year while they created their own IT infrastructure. They needed to create new IT infrastructures that exceed the functions of the old platform. The main aspects they had into account were: easy interconnection of the applications with each other, access to the platform from the Internet when and where necessary, and unification of the