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
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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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Case analysis-Strategic IT Transformation at Accenture Accenture was separated from its parent company and rebranded as a new organization. They face a challenge of building a new IT infrastructure to support their business. Because the new Accenture’s organization structure is different from the Anderson Consulting‚ the Anderson’s IT is deficient in several ways. Based on the deficient aspects I have some own recommendations and then I will analyse what Accenture did to deal with the situation
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Understanding the relationship between society and business has evolved over time as new schools of thought have emerged on the topic. The traditional view of business claims businesses exist solely to earn profits‚ business and ethics are in conflict with each other‚ and people are simple and guided by self-interest (Ted Talk‚ R. Edward Freeman). Society does not have a stake in this view‚ and benefits to society are perceived as being achieved at the expense of corporate success (Strategy and Society)
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There are several things Accenture has done well to target its business-to-business audience. With many intelligent strategies‚ and a little luck‚ they were able to appeal to many business executives. In addition‚ they were able to adapt to certain conditions such as the business climate‚ and proved capable of making tough and wise decisions‚ such as dropping Tiger Woods following the scandal. Accenture serves as a great example for how to successfully reach out to businesses in marketing. Marketing
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A. Executive Summary First of all‚ thanks to management of TARC choose Accenture to be your consultant. Our team assigned to advice TARC the following: a) Re-inventing Canteen No.2 by developed eight proposals. We commenced this assignment by interviewed 30 students from different courses and levels as well as 20 epicurean lecturers and staffs who patronize the food stalls. Based on these findings‚ we had identified some limitations of current canteen. Finally‚ we propose eight
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The Challenges to Growth Faced by Small‚ Medium and Micro Enterprises in the Polokwane Region of South Africa Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Business administration at Regenesys Business School Submitted by: Mamoloko Julia Masekwameng Student number: Reg 185051 Course code number: RSM-2014[MBA Online 121] Due date: 18 August 2014 Total number of pages: 16 Contact number: 083 414 0372 Table of Contents TOC \o "1-3" \h \z \u ABSTRACT PAGEREF _Toc396140179
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Study: Accenture Accenture is a global management consulting‚ technology services and outsourcing company. Its specialization is innovation and rapid transformation of the technology organizations within their parent companies (Accenture). Accenture’s position is that they can generate well grounded strategic business ideas and execute them. These are two things they know their client’s want‚ but also claim their competitors both of them effectively and effectively together (Accenture). Accenture
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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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1. Identify how some Accenture-type efforts have and have not occurred in your current and previous workplaces. Also‚ discuss why focusing on employee retention pays off for Accenture clients‚ and not just for Accenture itself. It is imperative to analyze the different work backgrounds that some of our team members have experienced in order to find some similarities with Accenture. One team member is currently working in a small air conditioning business with less than 50 employees. According to
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