Kates Kesler

APRIL 7, 2022

Work and decisions often become centralized at a corporate level for a variety of good reasons – to drive common strategy and policy, to consolidate work for efficiency and scale, to leverage scarce talent through centers of expertise. Efficiencies are lost in the cost of overhead. Programs and staff grow. An Example.

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Agile Enterprise Metrics Talent 65

Management Consulted

MARCH 26, 2017

Although historically not known for consulting services (unless you were consulting – ahem, lobbying – government officials), strategy, operations, and even tech consulting have exploded inside and outside the Beltway in the last 10 years. The office is stunning – arguably one of the best in the Accenture network.

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Oliver Wyman Consulting Deloitte Bain 100

CaseInterview.com

MARCH 5, 2019

Accenture has been growing in popularity during recent years. Their emphasis on technology, cost-cutting, and effectively managing operations has led to better consultant pay over time. Consultants at Accenture can expect a base salary as high as $85,000. They can also expect a signing bonus of $25,000. Financial Consulting.

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Consulting Management Case Interview Recruiting 81

Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2018

Our research , which focused on CEO succession in the American health care system, examined the impact of CEO succession on productivity and efficiency. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. Because hospitals receive substantial governmental revenues, they make public their operating data, which we needed to calculate productivity.

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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

Some of the major practice areas that the NYC region focuses on are corporate development, corporate finance, digital economy, globalization, growth, information technology, marketing & sales operations, people and organization, post merger integration, risk management, strategy, sustainability, and transformation.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Recognizing this exorbitant cost, Accenture developed a literacy index to evaluate how well consumers can obtain, understand, and navigate information and services. It is costing employers and health plans billions of dollars each year. Amazon and other digital retailers have done just that. Shift the complexity burden off consumers.

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System Insurance Insurance Education 42

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. The result, or outcome, is that farmers can manage their operations more efficiently and increase crop yields. Insight Center.

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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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Transportation Finance Financial Banking 46

Harvard Business

JANUARY 29, 2018

Industry disruption, as Accenture research has found, is reasonably predictable. For the latter, we measured incumbents’ operational efficiency, commitment to innovation, and defenses against attack. In the durability state, we found efficient, mature industries — think alcoholic beverages or tires and rubber.

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Industry Retail Accenture Transportation 28

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

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 14, 2017

And yet front-line employees are still often left operating with data that’s “too little, too late.” Data is not always shared efficiently. Sponsored by Accenture. ” Most organizations are challenged to extract meaningful insights from their customer data when they’re drowning in so many data feeds.

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Data Banking Sales Accenture 43

Harvard Business

JUNE 21, 2016

We are able to accomplish this partly because the human mind is able to process very complex information very efficiently. Operations in a Connected World. Sponsored by Accenture. The key was to design the structure of our model to make very efficient use of each observation of the human expert. Insight Center.

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Efficiency Automotive Accenture Meeting 39

Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2017

Deconstructing and then reconfiguring the components within jobs reveals human-automation combinations that are more efficient, effective, and impactful. Sponsored by Accenture. AI and robotics increasingly take on the routine aspects of both blue and white collar jobs, leaving the non-routine to humans. Insight Center. The Age of AI.

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Accenture Examples Retail Productivity 44

Harvard Business

APRIL 4, 2016

shared capital, shared workforce) to efficiently deliver on the same customer promise, many equivalent approaches have appeared before within those same industries, and it is the successful disruption of the status quo — not any fundamental “newness” — that has incumbents worried. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Hotels Real Estate Accenture Industry 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 17, 2017

Sponsored by Accenture. Based on this cross-case analysis, we found that operational safety and data security are decisive factors in getting people to trust technology. And since negative events are more visible than positive events, operational safety alone is not sufficient for building trust. Insight Center. The Age of AI.

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Case Interview Transportation Healthcare System 41

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 47

Harvard Business

MARCH 6, 2018

Technology service providers like Accenture work on multiple software projects. Doing so has a direct influence on how organizations run their business, how they can create new revenue streams, how they can re-imagine their products and services, how they can increase operational efficiencies, redefine their workforce, and much more.

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Software Data Accenture Engineering 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2017

Sponsored by Accenture. Jumpstart process and cost efficiency? Fortunately, executives recognized the problem before it was too late, conducting an enterprise-wide needs assessment and rebuilding the platform in a way that inspired confidence in its ability to drive efficiency and support business transformation. Insight Center.

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Data How To Enterprise Travel 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2017

Sponsored by Accenture. Furthermore, operating procedures need to be well defined and expressed to get the most from the technology. Exploring the use of automation, where possible, in operational processes is becoming a focus as security professionals look to maximize what they can do with existing resources. Insight Center.

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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

MAY 15, 2018

Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. Such behaviors include: managing meetings more efficiently, creating an effective climate of email use, blocking time in calendars for reflective work, negotiating role demands, and avoiding triggers that lead us all to jump in on projects or meetings when we shouldn’t, to name just a few.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

The second innovation was called blockchain, which was essentially the realization that the underlying technology that operated bitcoin could be separated from the currency and used for all kinds of other interorganizational cooperation. Sponsored by Accenture. Insight Center. Business in the Era of Blockchain.

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System Accenture Financial Banking 28

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. Sponsored by Accenture. For example, increasing your marketing spend for digital channels or upgrading internal communication systems.

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Real Estate Course Operations Accenture 28

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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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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Recruiting Recruitment System Trends 38

Harvard Business

APRIL 14, 2017

Sponsored by Accenture. By the time he left Amazon in 2013, his group had grown from 35 to more than 1,000 people who used machine learning to make Amazon more operationally efficient and effective. In fact, we find it’s helping such often severely overloaded IT professionals deal with geometrically increasing hacking attempts.

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Company Survey Finance Engineering 53

Harvard Business

MAY 21, 2018

Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. When a new direction was chosen, it would reflect the best elements of both cultures and operating approaches.” Cost-cutting and job losses typically occur in M&A as companies aggressively pursue efficiencies and eliminate redundancies. Insight Center. Competing in the Future.

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Company Enterprise Culture Accenture 36

Harvard Business

JUNE 3, 2016

It includes changes in how an organization interacts with its customers, citizens, or patients; in operational processes; in business models; in supply chain relationships; and in how employees use information to generate insight. Operations in a Connected World. Sponsored by Accenture. Insight Center.

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Tools Construction System Retail 28

Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2016

Sponsored by Accenture. These include improving data-mining operations, helping with training, and making structured, repeatable tasks and processes far more efficient and less costly. (A recent accident involving a Tesla “autonomous car” has raised questions about AI’s current limits.). Insight Center.

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Company Knowledge Base Insurance Insurance 28

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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Sales Marketing Tools Telecommunications 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 28, 2017

In the fictional world of the video game Watch Dogs , you can play a hacktivist who takes over the central operating system of a futuristic, hyper-connected Chicago. On April 8, hackers set off 156 emergency sirens in Dallas, Texas , disrupting residents and overwhelming 911 operators throughout the day. Sponsored by Accenture.

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System Operations Data Accenture 45

Harvard Business

MARCH 23, 2017

Blockchain could offer a reliable, low-cost way for financial or operational transactions to be recorded and validated across a distributed network with no central point of authority. Sponsored by Accenture. Such a decentralized energy system would be capable of delivering efficient, reliable, and, in many cases, renewable energy.

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Energy Efficiency System Industry 47

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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Automotive Operations Wireless Efficiency 29

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 42

Harvard Business

AUGUST 7, 2017

For instance, Goldcorp, the global mining company, recently partnered with Accenture to help knit together an ecosystem of large and small IoT suppliers to co-develop a connected mine in Cerro Negro, Nicaragua. IoT solutions tend to span information technology (IT), operational technology (OT), and core business functions. The reason?

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