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- Automating Change Management Responsibly
- Automating Change Management Responsibly Please join Dennis Drogseth, Vice President of Enterprise Management Associates and Stephen Nunn, Associate Partner of Accenture to discuss the economic and procedural value of process automation in your environment. Dennis will provide an overview of the advantages of automating IT processes citing industry statistics...
- Tags: Process Automation, Information Technology, Accenture Ltd., IBM Corp., Change Management, Leadership, Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Management
- Webcasts 2009-09-17
- The Math Behind Accenture’s Restructuring
- Will more cuts come? Thursday, Accenture announced that they were going to reduce their senior executive ranks by about 7%. The company stated: Approximately $128 million of the charge is for severance and related costs of workforce actions, primarily at the senior-executive level, which...
- Tags: Accenture Ltd., Restructuring, Senior Executive, Executive, $119mm, Workforce Management, Recruitment & Selection, Payroll Solutions, Real Estate, Outsourcing, Human Resources, Business Operations, It Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-08-26
- Accenture lays off senior execs
- Reducing the high priced helpThis seems to be a cycle at Accenture every few years regardless of the economy or market place.They just like to get rid of the high priced help and this usually flows down to the senior and mid-management levels as well.RE: Accenture lays off senior execsGetting...
- Tags: Accenture Ltd.
- Discussion threads 2009-08-21
- Accenture lays off senior execs
- Accenture said Thursday that it will thin its ranks of senior executives. The company, which announced the layoffs in a statement, said it will cut its senior executive ranks by 7 percent. Accenture will take a charge of $128 million to cover severance and other layoff costs....
- Tags: Layoff, Accenture Ltd., Senior Executive, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-08-20
- New software enables communication for students with severe disabilities
- New software enables communication for students with severe disabilitiesWow!To me, that is the natural progression of software/technology, to be able to include everyone in a full, rich life experience and share it with others. I often wondered how children with severe speech issues are able to express the natural...
- Tags: Operational accounting, HEALTHCARE, Peachtree Software, revenue, Accenture Ltd., Sun Microsystems Inc., New Software
- Discussion threads 2009-06-09
- Making IT visible: 10 questions with Bob Kress of Accenture
- Bucking the notion that IT should operate quietly in the background, Bob Kress has worked to raise IT's profile within his organization. In fact, IT has been so successful in cutting costs, improving efficiency, and increasing customer satisfaction, it's considered a model for how all business functions should be run.This...
- Tags: Information Technology, Accenture Ltd., Jeff Cerny, Strategy, Management
- Download resources 2009-05-27
- Accenture: Some clients are operating without annual budgets
- Accenture: Some clients are operating without annual budgetsCost cut at your own perilI wish some of these cost cutters realised the full impact of the decision they make; but then again, many of these CEO's would rather maintain their private jet, expensive dinners and poodle faking with other CEO's than...
- Tags: Accenture Ltd.
- Discussion threads 2009-03-31
- Accenture: Some clients are operating without annual budgets
- For a few months now, it seemed as if enterprise technology spending was a month-to-month affair. Accenture confirmed that theory, noted that "some clients are still operating without approved annual budgets" and cut its outlook for the rest of the year. Simply put, uncertainty reigns. A quarter...
- Tags: Accenture Ltd., Business Operations, Consulting, It Operations, Larry Dignan, Managed Hosting, Outsourcing, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Pause
- Blog posts 2009-03-27
- Accenture Cloud Computing Accelerator
- Cloud computing is the sourcing of a computing capability - hardware, software, even execution of a business process - somewhere "Out there," in a computing "Cloud" created wherever vast resources are linked together. Users don't know or care where the capability comes from, or how the computing capability is put...
- Tags: Accenture Ltd., Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hardware
- White papers 2009-01-29
- ACN vs. ORCL - Who's spending on advertising?
- The cost of selling services and software BtoB magazine recently posted their Top 100 business-to-business advertiser list. On this list were a couple of firms with distinctly different approaches to advertising. Oracle Corporation came in at #95 on the list, down from #74...
- Tags: ORCL, Advertisement, Accenture Ltd., Firm, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2008-12-18
- Accenture gets deeper into the green IT services game
- Need some outside perspective on the green status of your IT infrastructure? Accenture, which is one of Forrester Research's darlings when it comes to green IT services, has created a set of services called the Accenture Green Technology Suite that handle anything from basic green "maturity" assessments and modeling tools...
- Tags: Game, Data Center, Accenture Ltd., Green IT, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Study finds that 14 percent of U.S. consumers "borrow" free Wi-Fi
- A new study from Accenture reveals that 12 percent of U.S. and U.K. respondents admit to using someone else’s Wi-Fi connection. Accenture says that piggybacking is more common in the United States, with one in seven people--14 percent-- admitting to borrowing someone else’s signal. And, not surprisingly, the practice is...
- Tags: U.S., Accenture Ltd., U.K., Wi-Fi, Wireless LANs, Security, Wireless, Rik Fairlie
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- Software Security Governance in the Development Lifecycle: A Practical Guide From Accenture and Ounce Labs
- Development organizations can be complex, with complicated processes and numerous stakeholders. Security professionals or analysts represent a unique perspective in development, but must share time with others who might be responsible for quality, maintainability, serviceability or other "Dimensions" of a final product or application. However, both compliance needs and brand...
- Tags: Software, Brand, Governance, Accenture Ltd., Compliance, Ounce Labs, Branding, Security, Marketing
- White papers 2008-04-09
- ATL's Knowledge Discovery Capability
- I try to keep my posts non-technical, but sometimes I fail. This is one of those times. So it's probably best to skip the article below unless you played Dungeons & Dragons as a child. Accenture Technology Labs' rather generically-named Knowledge Discovery Capability KDC is actually a...
- Tags: Network, Knowledge, Accenture Ltd., ATL, Knowledge Discovery Capability, Strategy, Management, Ed Gottsman
- Blog posts 2008-02-25
- US Productivity Slip, A Threat to Sustainability?
- Bob Suh, Chief Technology Strategist at Accenture writing in yesterdays Financial Times hits the panic button on US productivity. Apparently it is starting to slip relative gains in Europe and China. The reason is an under investment in technology. I know what you are thinking, I'd be surprised too if...
- Tags: Sustainability, Accenture Ltd., Compliance, Investment, Suh, James Farrar
- Blog posts 2008-02-14
- Accenture Relies on HP PPM Center to Help Exceed Customer Expectations
- Accenture is among the world's leading management consulting, technology services, and outsourcing companies. The company wanted to increase value to global customers yet reduce costs by achieving breakthrough improvements in process design, enforcement, and automation. In the spring of 2001, while surveying software being used by Accenture's accounts, Ehninger learned...
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Accenture Ltd., Outsourcing, Strategy, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Management
- Case studies 2008-02-01
- UK Rural Payments Agency (RPA): IT failure and gross incompetence screws farmers
- A combination of IT failures and management incompetence have prevented the Rural Payments Agency RPA, which administers UK farm subsidy payments, from successfully executing its core mission despite years of effort. This extremely negative assessment is based on a new report issued by National Audit Office NAO. Accenture is implementing...
- Tags: Payment, Agency, Information Technology, Accenture Ltd., U.K., Operational Accounting, Finance, Michael Krigsman
- Blog posts 2007-12-16
- Accenture Finance Solutions Enhances Security While Improving Information Access and Reporting Tools
- Accenture Finance Solutions is a global management consulting, technology services, and outsourcing company. The company wanted to improve data security, as well as enhance and standardize access control procedures in line with statutory Italian business requirements, following the take-over of the existing Italian company, Arthis. The challenge was to upgrade...
- Tags: Security, Reporting Tool, Microsoft Access, Oracle Corp., Accenture Ltd., Finance, Access Control, Accenture Finance Solution, Accenture Finance Solutions, Business Intelligence, Outsourcing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting
- Case studies 2007-11-01
- Accenture's king of blue-sky thinking
- Accenture's king of blue-sky thinkingContinuous Improvement and VirtualizationGreat interview and we can add to this notion "When you build a house, you don't want to knock it down and start again every time you want to make a change, and it should be the same with code development."It was almost...
- Tags: Virtualization, Storage management, Strategy, operating system product, Accenture Ltd.
- Discussion threads 2007-10-30
- Tech earnings: So far so good
- A trio of technology companies reported earnings and provided a rough sketch of industry conditions. Here's a quick survey of the landscape. Overall, the results weren't bad--with the exception of Tibco, which turned in a poor quarter. Combined with earnings from the likes of Oracle and Red Hat...
- Tags: Revenue, TIBCO Software Inc., Cognos Inc., Accenture Ltd., Outsourcing, Earnings, Wall, Application Outsourcing, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-09-28
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