Accenture Simplifies IT‚ Reduces Costs with Single Technology Platform Global management consulting‚ technology services‚ and out-sourcing company Accenture was at a crucial business juncture. When it separated from its parent company in 1999‚ Accenture had to create its own internal IT organization. Accenture inherited its parent company’s disparate technologies and hundreds of specialized global applications‚ but it quickly realized it needed to improve upon these systems and services to serve
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History Initially called Andersen Consulting‚ Accenture was formally established in 1989 when a group of partners from the Consulting division of the various Arthur Andersen firms around the world formed a new organization focused on consulting and technology services related to managing large-scale systems integration and enhancing business processes. Accenture changed its name from Andersen Consulting in 2001 after severing ties from its parent company Arthur Andersen. The company went public
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this is a mis case study. the answer to it is Virtual Management for Accenture Q.1 What are the advantages of working in a enviornment like the one created by accenture? Ans1: What are the disadvantage?Ans. Advantages of working in avirtual environment is useful to business organisations as it helps them in following ways:1) virtual environment helps develop and improve the performance of the organisations.2) operating virtually helps them to gather and share information easily even when they
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Despite the fact that the number of employees at Accenture doubled from 2001 to 2008 accenture managed to reduce its spending per employee by 60% and reduce its overall IT expenses as a percentage of revenue by 58%. This was no miracle but a result of strategic business plan that was aligned with the IT. Some of the major problems that the parent firm Anderson faced was of interconnectivity among systems‚ remote access and its offices around the world implemented their own individual accounting and
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From: xxxx Sent: Wednesday‚ October 13‚ 2009 To: Accenture–CEO Subject: IT Components of Knowledge Management As you are aware‚ Accenture Knowledge Management team is getting ready to launch the new Knowledge exchange. Due to the increase in demand for KM‚ our team is emphasizing on improving our current knowledge management system. But in the past few years‚ with tough economy‚ KM is seen as low priority. With pressures to move the KM to offshore‚ there is 30% decrease in KM workforce.
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Accenture Delivery Centers in India The Accenture Global Delivery Network features robust‚ rapidly expanding delivery centers in India that provide a comprehensive range of technology capabilities and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) solutions. Accenture’s workforce in India accounts for more than 40‚000 employees. The Accenture Delivery Centers in India are uniquely positioned to leverage our industry expertise‚ functional capabilities‚ alliances and technology to produce tangible business results
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Running head: Marketing Spotlight - Accenture Marketing Spotlight - Accenture What have been the key success factors for Accenture? One large success factor for Accenture has been its timing. "Accenture started life as the consulting arm of accounting firm Arthur Anderson In 1989‚ Anderson Consulting separated from Arthur Anderson in order to position itself against its IT services competitors" (Keller & Kotler‚ 1994/2006‚ 366). Accenture was able to take advantage of its large parent company
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WESTERN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MBM Management 626 Marketing Management Designing Global Market Offerings I. Deciding on the Marketing Programs International companies or marketers may choose between two alternative approaches in developing its marketing strategies or marketing mix. These two approaches are: a. Global Marketing Strategy – defines a standard marketing mix and implements it with minimal modifications in all of its domestic and foreign markets. This standard approach
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McDonald ’s Marketing Program The story of McDonald’s began in 1940 when Dick and Mac McDonald open their first car hop in San Bernardino‚ CA which had a large menu and employees served customers while they sat in their vehicles. In 1948 the brothers redesigned the location to include a walk-up self-service counter and drive-in‚ simplified the menu to only 9 items and opened a second location. In addition to burgers and fries‚ the McDonald’s brothers served milkshakes made with an appliance
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Executive Summary IBM and Accenture are both huge companies and uses five factor DuPont analysis to achieve a return on equity. IBM has a higher return on equity than Accenture‚ and therefore the management are more efficient in generating shareholder value per dollar invested. However both the companies are performing better than the industry average. IBM does also take lesser number of days to convert cash on hand compared to Accenture and industry average. But‚ Accenture is taking more days than
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