Accenture's work with clients around the world reveals a clear pattern: high-performance businesses and governments set themselves apart by positioning information technology (IT) as a strategic asset and a partner to the enterprise. Explore Accenture's latest technology consulting thought leadership and research: Sustainable IT Cost Reduction
Learn the three practical steps to delivering sustainable savings in tandem with greater business agility. Accenture Green Maturity Model
Take the first step in putting IT at the top of the environmental agenda. Green IT: Beyond the Data Center
How IT can contribute to the environmental agenda across and beyond the business. IT Disaster: It's Not a Matter of If—It's a Matter of When
Complacency, complexity and strained legacy systems are conspiring to raise the risk of an unexpected IT disaster to alarming levels. Standard backup policies and redundant systems are no longer enough. What's needed now is a strategic emphasis on rapid and well-rehearsed recovery. Unified Communications: Why and How
A systematic approach to streamlining business processes to enable high performance. Managing Complexity Still Top Security Challenge, Prompting Increase in Security Spend, According to Accenture and InformationWeek Survey
Survey highlights and trends of the Accenture and InformationWeek Global Security Survey of 2007. SOA: Tailwind for IT Investments
Service-oriented architecture is about to overturn what most business leaders think they know about IT. How to Close the CIO Leadership Credibility Gap
New research suggests that companies are more likely to achieve high performance when the CIO is a genuine peer of other C-suite executives. Rethinking Enterprise Architecture to Reach for High Performance
SOA requires information technology to be optimized in terms of the business model. Is There a Smarter Way to Approach IT Governance?
The critical process of defining clear IT priorities with the right amount of oversight and accounting is most successful when done in the context of a company's unique business environment. Enabling High Performance with Next Generation Infrastructure
Accenture's Global Infrastructure research reveals key trends for large organizations world wide. IT Consolidation and the Bottom Line
There are few more ready means of improving earnings per share than the consolidation and rationalization of IT systems, hardware, networks and other infrastructure. Virtualization: Getting Your IT Infrastructure in Shape to Support High Performance
The winning companies will be those that make an early and decisive commitment to virtualizing their IT infrastructure. Balancing Risk with the Quest for High Performance: The Challenges of Evolving Network Security
Extended networks are imperative for high performance, but security concerns must be addressed. Digital Myopia: Are You Missing the Internet Upside?
The digital perspective of many companies doesn't extend much beyond producing webcasts, ordering office supplies online and giving PDAs to the sales force. This is almost certainly putting these companies at greater risk from more able, technically savvy competitors. Reconcilable Differences: IT and Post-Merger Integration
New research shows an important difference in the way senior IT executives and senior business managers define success in a merger transaction. What's behind this "alignment gap?" How will it affect M&A execution in the future? Reinventing the IT Workforce
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