CaseInterview.com

MARCH 5, 2019

While Bain, BCG, and McKinsey offer the most competitive consultant salaries in the market currently, salaries offered at less prestigious firms are still very good. Accenture has been growing in popularity during recent years. Consultants at Accenture can expect a base salary as high as $85,000. Total: $223,100-$229,100.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 10, 2020

In contrast, a digital currency can operate on a peer-to-peer network that allows a buyer to settle a transaction directly with a seller without a financial intermediary. In February 2020, Sweden’s Riksbank announced that it is conducting a pilot project with Accenture aimed at developing a digital krona that is simple and user friendly.

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Banking Financial Government Retail 120

Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

Compensation and benefits are on par to the market, but not adjusted for NYC living (so for take-home pay you might be better off in Atlanta or Dallas as a young McKinseyite, unless the magnetic draw to the Big Apple is just too much). Accenture has a nearly-secret, much smaller, unofficial office on 11 Broadway.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2017

Sponsored by Accenture. The reps also become more efficient because Angie routes the right leads to the right reps. According to Scott Berns, CenturyLink’s Director of Marketing Operations, the company has approximately 1,600 sales people, and the Angie pilot started with four of them. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2018

Inside candidates, often groomed by their predecessors, bring firm-, market-, and industry-specific knowledge that outsiders might take years to acquire. Our research , which focused on CEO succession in the American health care system, examined the impact of CEO succession on productivity and efficiency. Both have advantages.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 2, 2016

This question has been top of mind lately among manufacturers aiming to drive profitable growth, triggering a fundamental shift to the way a business operates that increasingly focuses on outcomes. But in an outcome-centric organization, marketers target individual customers. Operations in a Connected World. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 29, 2018

Industry disruption, as Accenture research has found, is reasonably predictable. For the former, we examined the presence and market penetration of disruptor companies; we also considered incumbents’ financial performance. One of the biggest is that it is a mysterious, random, and unpredictable event.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. To infuse change agility into your culture, mid- and front-line leaders — who are closest to the markets, customers, and daily operations — need to be encouraged and incented to see opportunities in what they do every day. Competing in the Future.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 22, 2016

FinTechs are internet companies that streamline financial systems and make funding the supply chain more efficient. They include new enterprises such as Orbian , Prime Revenue , C2FO , Taulia , and Ariba as well as new operations launched by traditional financial service firms such as Citi Group, HSBC, BNP Paribas, and Deutsche Bank.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 4, 2016

So far, the theory behind this laissez-fair regulatory approach — which many in Silicon Valley are happy to endorse — is that platform companies define new markets for which regulators were not prepared, and as such can’t be regulated in the same way as legacy companies. Sponsored by Accenture. The Platform Economy.

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Hotels Real Estate Accenture Industry 28

Harvard Business

AUGUST 10, 2018

How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. These planners will lead the charge in moving away from a traditional supply chain operating model, which is inflexible and slow, to a new dynamic model with true end-to-end segmentation. Their role: improve process efficiencies. Insight Center.

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System Engineering Accenture Efficiency 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2017

D&A should be the pulse of the organization, incorporated into all key decisions across sales, marketing, supply chain, customer experience, and other core functions. Sponsored by Accenture. Jumpstart process and cost efficiency? Increase market share? What’s the best way to build effective D&A capabilities?

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

The market cap of bitcoin now hovers between $10–$20 billion dollars, and is used by millions of people for payments, including a large and growing remittances market. The ethereum smart contract platform now has a market cap of around a billion dollars , with hundreds of projects headed toward the market.

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System Accenture Financial Banking 28

Harvard Business

MAY 15, 2018

Organizations need to be continually on the lookout for new market developments and competitive threats, identifying essential experts and nimbly forming and disbanding teams to help tackle those issues quickly. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. Yet, unfortunately progress did not match expectations. This story is not unique.

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Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2016

Such a high failure rate isn’t surprising, as leaders are trying to create entirely new competencies and wedge them into an organization with strong legacy cultures and operating models. For example, increasing your marketing spend for digital channels or upgrading internal communication systems. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Real Estate Course Operations Accenture 28

Harvard Business

MAY 22, 2018

Its hierarchical authority, specialized division of labor, and standard operating procedures enabled companies to grow far larger than they had ever been. The German sociologist Max Weber famously praised bureaucracy’s rationality and efficiencies. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. Insight Center. Competing in the Future.

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Agile Energy Retail Case Interview 39

Harvard Business

JUNE 10, 2016

And because “she” is connected to all the relevant systems, Amelia delivers results faster than a human operator. Operations in a Connected World. Sponsored by Accenture. Of course, there will be occasions when even AI is stumped, but Amelia is smart enough to recognize when to involve a human agent. Insight Center.

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Development Sales Accenture McKinsey 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 14, 2017

For example, our survey, which asked managers of 13 functions, from sales and marketing to procurement and finance, to indicate whether their departments were using AI in 63 core areas, found AI was used most frequently in detecting and fending off computer security intrusions in the IT department. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Harvard Business

MAY 21, 2018

Consider this example: When The Interpublic Group (IPG) merged the direct-marketing company Draft with the ad-agency Foote Cone & Belding (FCB) to become one agency in 2006, “it was immediately apparent that the cultures of the two agencies were wildly different,” shared Marty Stock, then head of Coors advertising at FCB.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 31, 2017

Sponsored by Accenture. They believe it is both more effective and cost-efficient to develop in-house skills (as they did to a large extent with the previous generation of AI tools). Both are addressing cognitive applications that benefit customers and bring operational business value to their own organizations. Insight Center.

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System Data Advertising Tools 28

Harvard Business

MARCH 15, 2017

“Traditionally, boards have tended to stay out of operational functions, but technology is so pervasive that the best practice is to have direct board engagement in technology through active committees, just as they would with audit, compensation, and other key areas.”

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Harvard Business

MAY 11, 2018

But the reality is that any major leap forward on cost and efficiency will no longer be possible through automation alone, since most of the tasks that can be automated in an automotive factory have already been tackled. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. Insight Center. Competing in the Future. Take the paint shop.

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Harvard Business

MAY 23, 2016

We believe data-driven manufacturing is indeed the next wave that will drive efficient and responsive production systems. Operations in a Connected World. Sponsored by Accenture. In theory, the whole system therefore becomes more efficient, minimizing wasted materials and activities. Insight Center.

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Data Engineering System Efficiency 35

Harvard Business

AUGUST 7, 2017

This collaborative approach is no longer optional: No single company, deploying only its own products or services, can capture IoT’s value by itself, and certainly not with the speed required in today’s digital market. IoT solutions tend to span information technology (IT), operational technology (OT), and core business functions.

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ROI Operations Talent Accenture 28

freshminds

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Being a critical business analyst is at the heart of management consulting - seeking out valuable data and generating new ideas to maximise efficiency and profit within companies. As businesses increasingly become more reliant on digital for their operational improvement and strategic outlook, consultants have to keep up with the game. [1]

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Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2016

Building models with web search data as one of the inputs reduces mean absolute forecast error, a standard measure of prediction accuracy, for monthly national sales predictions on the order of 40% from baseline for auto makes with relatively small market shares, compared to traditional time-series models. Operations in a Connected World.

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Data Advertising Operations Case Study 49

Harvard Business

JUNE 7, 2017

By contrast, companies with strong basic analytics — such as sales data and market trends — make breakthroughs in complex and critical areas after layering in artificial intelligence. First, managers should ask themselves if they have automated processes in problem areas that cost significant money and slow down operations.

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Company Telecommunications Data Retail 45

Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2017

Sponsored by Accenture. They wanted to switch the basis of its salesforce compensation from raw results to performance relative to the potential of each salesperson’s market. But it reduced the compensation of salespeople who were less efficient but ultimately more valuable—causing them to defect to competitors.

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Methodologies Data Analysis Retail 28

Management Consulted

APRIL 6, 2014

While PwC is a global brand in the professional services industry, each member firm in various locations around the world are locally owned and operated and subject to the laws of their geographic jurisdictions (which makes sense, because some countries require this of accounting firms). Banking & Capital Markets. Industries.

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2017

These companies, which include Tata Consultancy Services, Cognizant, Infosys, Wipro, Accenture, IBM India, and Deloitte, are contracted by other companies to do IT work. To reduce overhead, or to cut costs, or to increase efficiency, you decide to contract out (outsource) some or all of your IT work.

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Engineering Talent Information Technology Information Technology 33

Harvard Business

MARCH 1, 2017

After all, most financial intermediaries themselves rely on a dizzying, complex, and costly array of intermediaries to run their own operations. Sponsored by Accenture. After all, how do you cut cost from a business or market whose structure has fundamentally changed? Insight Center. Business in the Era of Blockchain.

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