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Accenture: Continuing to stretch the meaning of “consulting”

The Source

Watching Accenture in action is always an invigorating experience. While scale is still a key part of the firm’s narrative, the years in which Accenture offered the consulting equivalent of Bauhaus brutalism have given way to an altogether smarter approach, all agile and innovation. But where is Accenture going now?

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An Overview of Software Consulting

Tom Spencer

The city hired Accenture to modernize its civil service, which led Accenture to create an app to manage daily maintenance in the city by alerting relevant technicians. Agile software development is a set of principles and practices that aim to improve the effectiveness of software development.

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How to Make Sure Agile Teams Can Work Together

Harvard Business

Increasing volatility, uncertainty, growing complexity, and ambiguous information (VUCA) has created a business environment in which agile collaboration is more critical than ever. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. Marina Nasr / EyeEm/Getty Images. This story is not unique. Insight Center. Competing in the Future.

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Bureaucracy Can Drain Your Company’s Energy. Agile Can Restore It.

Harvard Business

I know it is critical for the leadership to embrace agile, but the sad reality is that I’m not sure our leadership team will start before it’s too late. Rather than debating the advantages of agile teams, why not start demonstrating them? Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. Learn and experience how agile works.

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How to Become a Future-Ready Business - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM ACCENTURE STRATEGY

Harvard Business

Accenture, in conjunction with the World Economic Forum, has created a vision of the operating model of the future for consumer industries. Read more from Accenture Strategy: How Technology Is Changing M&A in the U.S. Click here to learn more from Accenture. There’s no time to lose.

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What Management Consulting Looks Like Post Covid-19

Tom Spencer

An individual who invests in their skills not only acquires a wealth of new knowledge, but also gains more ability to be agile and adapt to the changing business environment. Thanduxolo Love Mtsweni is a Management Consultant Analyst at Accenture in South Africa.

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Continuous Development Will Change Organizations as Much as Agile Did

Harvard Business

Called Agile, the process put customers at the center of product development, encouraged rapid prototyping, and dramatically increased corporate speed and agility. While Agile began as a product development innovation, it sparked a corporate strategy and process revolution. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. Insight Center.

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