Industrial Products Industry: Services Overview

Accenture conducted research to identify what constitutes high performance in the industrial products industry. This research reveals that leading companies are achieving high performance through mastering four key areas. These four pillars of high performance are:

• Global Flexibility: Creating a value chain nimble enough to seize growth opportunities wherever they may arise.
  
  
• Innovation and Pricing Power: Using customer insight effectively to generate new products and services.
  
  
• Productivity Plus: Delivering the operational excellence and strong balance sheet needed to undertake successful strategic acquisitions.
  
  
• People Performance: Committing to continuous learning and rigorous talent management.

These pillars are supported by distinctive capabilities that allow high performing companies to differentiate themselves from their peers successfully. Accenture can help industrial equipment companies develop these capabilities, and also to combine them distinctively to create competitive advantage.

Accenture has the deep industry knowledge, business acumen and global resources to help industrial equipment companies achieve high performance.

We can partner with industrial equipment companies to help them achieve mastery in the four pillars that support high growth in their industry, improving performance and increasing bottom-line performance.

• Deep industry insight: We have been working in this industry for years, and have a track record of helping industrial equipment manufacturers around the world achieve high performance.
  
  
• Business acumen: Our continuing research into high performance ensures that we have an understanding of the capabilities that underlie it. As the world's largest management consultancy, with a vast pool of business talent, nobody else can better help companies innovate to create a competitive advantage.
  
  
• Global reach: Accenture's global presence means we can leverage local insight like nobody else. And the Accenture Global Delivery Network means that retailers can leverage the skill and cost benefits of global sourcing, adding scalability and flexibility to their business processes.
  
  
• Technological excellence: The capabilities enabling high performance are increasingly enabled by technology. Nobody understands how to use technology to better business advantage than Accenture—and we have the global capability to manage technology cost-effectively at higher service levels.

Accenture's range of services and capabilities can help industrial equipment companies improve their performance in the four capabilities that underpin high performance. Our services can be purchased on an individual basis, or we can consult with you to create end-to-end solutions managed by us. We can also partner with you to take over selected business processes through flexible outsourcing arrangements, leaving you free to focus on your core business.

Global Flexibility: Creating a value chain nimble enough to seize growth opportunities wherever they may arise.

• Business Process Outsourcing (BPO): Our global network of delivery centers enables you to create a global organization that accesses the best skills at the lowest costs, and to optimize your global supply chain.
  
  
• Corporate Strategy: We can help you create a corporate strategy to meet your business goals. We have created a special strategic model to help industrial equipment suppliers penetrate the Chinese market successfully.

Innovation and Pricing Power: Using customer insight effectively to generate new products and services.

• Customer Relationship Management: Our broad range of customer relationship management services help you use customer insight effectively to create a pricing strategy that works, optimize your product portfolio, and develop targeted services.
  
  
• Accenture Technology Labs: Our dedicated research and development facility can help you create new products that the market wants.

Productivity Plus: Delivering the operational excellence and strong balance sheet needed to undertake successful strategic acquisitions.

• Procurement BPO: We can help you optimize your procurement function, or assume full responsibility for it.
  
  
• Finance and Accounting BPO: Accenture can help you transform your finance function to improve performance.
  
  
• Outsourcing Services: We can help you transform your business processes to improve flexibility and performance, either through consulting or as part of an outsourcing engagement.

People Performance: Committing to continuous learning and rigorous talent management.

• Human Resources Management: This program can help you to optimize all aspects of your talent management and create a values-based culture.
  
  
• Learning BPO: Accenture Learning can help you use learning to improve workforce performance and support your business goals.