Accenture Innovation Centers for Communications & High Tech

Accenture’s ongoing High Performance Business research indicates that organizations capable of achieving high performance excel across two dimensions: innovation and execution.

The global Accenture Innovation Center network supports activities related to delivering innovation to our clients in the communications, electronics, high tech and media and entertainment industries as we help them achieve and sustain high performance.

The trio of centers serves as a gateway to Accenture—showcasing our industry experience, real-world solutions, innovative prototypes and primary research—to help clients apply practical innovations, and use current and emerging technologies to solve critical business problems.

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Each Accenture Innovation Center is designed and equipped to address a wide range of issues that companies may be facing. In addition, each center offers several unique areas of focus related to convergence or industry-specific offerings. Areas of focus by location include:

Asia Pacific

• Creating and launching innovative Internet Protocol products and services.
• Optimizing transformation in billing, customer relationship management and operations support.
• Addressing the needs of R&D in a converging market.
• Delivering and managing converged content.
• Reducing operating costs and improving business results through business process outsourcing.

Europe

• Digital broadband technologies and services
• Industry strategy and positioning
• Service innovation
• Next-generation networks and operations
• Next-generation infrastructure and security

North America

• Multiscreen strategy and prototypes
• User experience
• Web/Enterprise 2.0
• New service design and delivery
• Next-generation portals
• Converged services retail experience
• Internet protocol solutions and networks

Each center is responsible for driving research efforts, forging viewpoints and developing demonstrations related to its particular areas of focus. Insights about these areas of focus are also universally available to our clients through workshops, regardless of which center they visit.

To unleash new thinking, each Accenture Innovation Center offers brainstorming sessions with our leading subject matter advisors. Groups of industry professionals from each center also develop and facilitate executive information sessions and interactive workshops tailored to individual client needs.

Sessions focus on pioneering ways to implement current and emerging technologies to help organizations address business challenges, whether those challenges are related to a specific industry or a converging marketplace.

Workshops include compelling content from Accenture thought leadership, research and client and industry experience—and are supplemented by demonstrations and prototypes.

The global network of Accenture Innovation Centers offers an inventory of prototypes and demonstrations related to each area of focus. Depending on the workshop topic and client need, each center assembles relevant demonstrations to support the discussion.

Demonstrations bring to life Accenture’s broad industry experience as well as functional and technology capabilities. The demonstrations are designed to help clients identify business opportunities, weave innovations into product offerings and extrapolate ideas into entirely new services for customers.

The Accenture Innovation Centers for Communications & High Tech comprise a network of three centers strategically located in Asia Pacific, Europe and North America to serve a global client base.

Accenture Innovation Center for Communications & High Tech in Asia Pacific
Accenture Innovation Center for Communications & High Tech in Europe
Accenture Innovation Center for Communications & High Tech in North America