Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

Accenture Strategy research shows 87 percent of U.S. Read more from Accenture Strategy: How to Become a Future-Ready Business. Accenture Strategy research indicates that the disruption and differentiation that digital technology can create will place it at the center of acquisition strategy for the foreseeable future.

Accenture 28

Accenture Strategy Strategy Strategy& 28

Management Consulted

MARCH 18, 2015

IMS HEALTH INTERVIEWS & CULTURE . Disease area, product landscapes, competitive assessments. New product planning/product development strategy. When competing against other more general firms like Accenture, Deloitte and even McKinsey, the expertise brought by the firm helps them win key projects.

Groups 100

Groups Interviews Culture Consulting 100

Tom Spencer

AUGUST 26, 2022

Working for a multinational consulting firm such as McKinsey, Deloitte, or Accenture exposes an individual to various industries, companies, and well-known brand names. Starting out in consulting can be scary as it requires understanding how managers work, how projects are organised, and getting used to the culture and the people.

Management 88

Management Consulting Accenture Industry 88

Management Consulted

MAY 7, 2017

The Silicon Valley office is especially fast paced with a highly entrepreneurial culture. In addition, McKinsey’s Bay Area offices are some of the most culturally diverse in the entire firm: 30+ nationalities are represented in this region alone! The San Francisco office has also developed a strong learning culture.

Consulting 113

Consulting Bain Deloitte Healthcare 113

Harvard Business

JUNE 2, 2016

A piece of machinery to meet a product need? For instance, in a traditional, customer-centric organization, marketers identify customer segments across multiple dimensions, then define solutions (a mix of products and services) to meet each segment’s needs. Sponsored by Accenture. What are you really looking for?

Productivity 28

Productivity Company Engineering Sales 28

Management Consulted

MARCH 26, 2017

Close to the Capitol, its office serves dynamic clients in a mix of industries including healthcare, aerospace, defense, and consumer products. The DC office management pushes training programs and the culture is all about grooming employees into McKinsey-bred consultants; they do everything they can to stay on top. Cool, or not?

Oliver Wyman 100

Oliver Wyman Consulting Deloitte Bain 100

Harvard Business

JUNE 16, 2016

The companies with the greatest value from IoT to date are the best at dealing with how products are performing for customers. Of course, every company eventually gets the truth about how its products and services are performing for customers. Sponsored by Accenture. The call center logs customer complaints. Insight Center.

Productivity 28

Productivity Wireless Data Survey 28

Harvard Business

JULY 1, 2016

Sponsored by Accenture. That’s our product, and that’s our passion. It launched a product, gathered feedback, and kept iterating as it scaled and added users. At the other is a product or service that solves the problem or addresses the market in a way nobody has thought of before. Insight Center.

Productivity 34

Productivity Engineering Accenture Banking 34

Tom Spencer

JULY 22, 2013

Founded in 1989, Accenture has approximately 195 offices worldwide including Sydney, Singapore, Hong Kong, Bombay, New Delhi, Johannesburg, London, Toronto, New York, and San Francisco. Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. The firms are: Bain. Archstone Consulting. Consulting.

Oliver Wyman 83

Oliver Wyman Strategy Strategy Strategy& 83

Management Consulted

JULY 2, 2017

And with Bain’s globally-recognized social culture, Vault ranked Bain as the Best Place to Work in 2015. As one of the oldest and most storied cities in North America, Boston is full of historic sites and leading cultural institutions which the employees and their families enjoy on holidays or weekends.

Oliver Wyman 72

Oliver Wyman Mercer Consulting Deloitte 72

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

The culture is really crisp with very intelligent people around; in fact, some of the “best” longest-standing McKinseyites in the world are in NYC and McKinsey has significant support staff in the office as well. Accenture has a nearly-secret, much smaller, unofficial office on 11 Broadway.

Consulting 157

Consulting Deloitte Bain McKinsey 157

Management Consulted

MAY 28, 2017

The firm does a significant amount of diligence work for PE firms, and also performs an assessment of their ability to compete from a technical and product standpoint for tech acquirers – Bulger Partners is the only firm in the industry currently providing this service. BULGER PARTNERS CULTURE.

Software 165

Software Strategy Strategy Strategy& 165

Tom Spencer

MAY 15, 2014

Founded in 1989, Accenture has offices in more than 200 cities in 56 countries worldwide including Sydney, Singapore, Hong Kong, Bombay, New Delhi, Johannesburg, London, Toronto, New York, and San Francisco. Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Pacific Strategy Partners. Second Road.

Oliver Wyman 76

Oliver Wyman Strategy Strategy Strategy& 76

Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2018

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.

Agile 28

Agile Development Methodologies Software 28

1 to 1

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

For Shelly Swanback, who joined TTEC Engage as CEO in May, creating a culture of empowerment isn’t just part of her job – it’s a passion. Most notably, she launched and built Accenture Digital into a global digital transformation powerhouse with more than $20 billion in annual revenue in just seven years.

Leadership 26

Leadership Talent Accenture Culture 26

Management Consulted

MAY 28, 2017

The firm does a significant amount of diligence work for PE firms, and also performs an assessment of their ability to compete from a technical and product standpoint for tech acquirers – Bulger Partners is the only firm in the industry currently providing this service. BULGER PARTNERS CULTURE.

Software 100

Software Case Interview Recruiting Recruitment 100

Management Consulted

MAY 28, 2017

The firm does a significant amount of diligence work for PE firms, and also performs an assessment of their ability to compete from a technical and product standpoint for tech acquirers – Bulger Partners is the only firm in the industry currently providing this service. BULGER PARTNERS CULTURE.

Software 100

Software Case Interview Recruiting Recruitment 100

Management Consulted

MAY 28, 2017

The firm does a significant amount of diligence work for PE firms, and also performs an assessment of their ability to compete from a technical and product standpoint for tech acquirers – Bulger Partners is the only firm in the industry currently providing this service. BULGER PARTNERS CULTURE.

Software 100

Software Case Interview Recruiting Recruitment 100

Harvard Business

JULY 5, 2016

At MyEdu, we had developed a college student profile product, and Blackboard – one of the largest educational software companies in the world – purchased our company to supplement their existing product portfolio with this rich new capability. Sponsored by Accenture. I was at a startup that got acquired.

Software 28

Software Education Construction Culture 28

Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

Organizations, processes, and cultures will be integrated for weeks and months after the organizations come together, causing disruption and uncertainty. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. It makes the culture too risk averse and squelches momentum. Insight Center. Competing in the Future. Advertise successes.

Agile 49

Agile Efficiency Culture Trends 49

Kates Kesler

APRIL 7, 2022

The project focused on redefining how a number of core activities were performed to both optimize production and improve depth and quality of analytics. Production performance. Keri Macaluso and Amy Kates are with Kates Kesler, a leading organization design firm that is a part of Accenture. Impact on cycle-time.

Agile 65

Agile Enterprise Metrics Talent 65

Harvard Business

JUNE 6, 2018

Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. Deloitte says the consumer’s decision to buy a product or service is impacted by their overall enjoyment of their experience. Don’t neglect your culture. One of the biggest challenges of most acquisitions or mergers is figuring out what to do about the combined company culture.

Operations 30

Operations Culture Deloitte Accenture 30

Harvard Business

MAY 10, 2018

Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. There are Chinese firms that monitor upcoming international products and surreptitiously register their trademarks so a new Western brand in China may find its trademark already registered and have to give it up or hire lawyers to buy it back. Insight Center. Competing in the Future.

Intellectual Property 28

Intellectual Property Pharmaceuticals Government Accenture 28

Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. What makes this a quest is that there is likely no product currently on the market or no existing demand from consumers. Instead of looking at how much market share they can get for products that already exist, they look at how much market they can create by solving problems that already exist.

Company 31

Company B2B Engineering System 31

Harvard Business

MAY 21, 2018

Cultural differences can emerge, particularly if the companies have been at different ends of the spectrum in the marketplace. “In bringing together a specialist direct-marketing agency with a generalist creative shop, cultural differences were bound to arise, given the contrast in customer approach and sensibilities.

Company 29

Company Enterprise Culture Accenture 29

Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2016

And this is precisely the problem that many companies are having in their efforts to collaborate with partners, share resources and knowledge, and create new products and services. For many business leaders — 85%, according to a recent Accenture survey — such open innovation is critical to their strategic plans.

Intellectual Property 28

Intellectual Property Talent Groups Accenture 28

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 16, 2016

BTS GROUP INTERVIEWS AND CULTURE. Household Products. A few of the client companies that you will be in close contact with are Google, Hewlett-Packard, AT&T, Salesforce.com, Accenture and Coca-Cola. BTS GROUP CULTURE. The culture at BTS Group is described by employees as fun, tight-knit, and quirky. Technology.

Groups 100

Groups Interviews Culture Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

MARCH 8, 2017

Like the internet, this technology is designed to be decentralized, with “layers,” where each layer is defined by an interoperable open protocol on top of which companies, as well as individuals, can build products and services. Sponsored by Accenture. Insight Center. Business in the Era of Blockchain.

Media 68

Media Banking Financial System 68

Harvard Business

JUNE 7, 2016

Conventional wisdom would seem to suggest that companies have no incentive to lengthen the life cycle of their products and reduce the revenue they would get from selling new goods. Sponsored by Accenture. For the most part, consumers control what happens to a product. Insight Center. Operations in a Connected World.

Company 28

Company Apparel Retail Metrics 28

Harvard Business

MAY 15, 2018

However, these cross-functional groups often bump up against misaligned incentives, hierarchical decision-making, and cultural rigidities, causing progress to stall or action to not be taken at all. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. This story is not unique. Insight Center. Competing in the Future.

Agile 43

Agile How To Efficiency Groups 43

Harvard Business

JUNE 22, 2017

There has been even more stability in analytical leadership, change management, and culture, and in many cases those remain the toughest problems to address. Sponsored by Accenture. Most cognitive technologies are statistics-based at their core, and they can dramatically improve the productivity and effectiveness of data analysis.

Software 28

Software Data Tools Telecommunications 28

Harvard Business

MARCH 21, 2018

In fact, consumer research we’ve worked on at Accenture shows that in the U.S. But his framework also offers a model for rethinking the traditional four P’s of marketing: product , price , place , and promotion. Pride: Customers feel proud and inspired to use the company’s products and services.

Marketing 40

Marketing Apparel Retail Company 40

Harvard Business

MAY 16, 2018

Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. With the average Walmart customer skewing older, its ability to offer Humana’s Medicare Advantage product – the insurer’s biggest line of business – could further serve the needs of Walmart’s senior shoppers even as it met federal value-based requirements for healthcare.

Company 28

Company Retail Insurance Insurance 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 30, 2016

There are four things I think publishers need to know to compete in the digital age: The product drives the business. In a sense, publishing is like any other business: Your success is driven by customer demand for your product. The quality of a publishing product comes down to user experience and reporting. Insight Center.

Journal 28

Journal Talent Video Productivity 28

Harvard Business

JULY 22, 2016

Organizations that manage digital networks (we call them network orchestrators) are different from traditional product and service providers. Instagram is an exciting marketing channel; GoPro’s account helps keep users engaged with the company and lets GoPro know how people use its products. Sponsored by Accenture.

Real Estate 28

Real Estate Talent System Tools 28

Harvard Business

MAY 20, 2016

So she and her boss agreed to have her lead the development of a pop-up store, which required collaboration with finance, sales, and product teams. That way, feedback will become embedded in the culture instead of happening ad hoc in out-of-the-blue “gotcha” sessions or too infrequently, at annual review time.

Leadership 32

Leadership Groups Meeting Accenture 32

Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. About two-thirds of agile practitioners report higher team morale, increased productivity, greater ability to manage changing priorities, and faster time to market than they were experiencing before. Our culture would kill it.” Insight Center. Competing in the Future. We’re too busy.

Agile 32

Agile Energy Retail Case Interview 32