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An Overview of Software Consulting

Tom Spencer

Software is key to the efficiency of organizations in almost every industry. 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. It is agile, stimulating, and there is plenty room for growth.

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What Management Consulting Looks Like Post Covid-19

Tom Spencer

When we speak of consulting, we are speaking of an industry that has grown significantly over the years and impacted how companies in many industries operate and deliver services to customers. In this article, we will look at some of the ways the consulting industry has changed due to the pandemic. Technology.

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Lessons Learned by an Early Career Consultant

Tom Spencer

If you are a recent graduate, the consulting industry offers a great way to get a head start in your career, and to hit the ground running from the outset. The industry understandably attracts high achievers who have big dreams, high hopes, and great expectations for how their professional careers will play out.

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Consulting as a Contractor: The Rise of Self-Employment

Tom Spencer

Normally consultants who leave the consulting industry take up positions working for a former client organisation or go on to start their own companies. He discovered that working independently allowed him to identify gaps within the strategy consulting industry that he easily would have missed if he had been working as a employee.

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

Harvard Business

Changing consumer needs, combined with shifting workforce expectations, are altering the competitive landscape and dictating transformation of existing company operating models for consumer industries. Accenture, in conjunction with the World Economic Forum, has created a vision of the operating model of the future for consumer industries.

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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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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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