As Accenture research shows the currency of success in today’s knowledge economy is talent—from today’s and tomorrow’s leaders to frontline staff. Once found, this talent must be retained and constantly re-educated to meet the changing demands of the competitive multi-polar economy. And the contribution that this talent makes to business performance must be optimized and multiplied across the organization.

High-performance businesses are using technology solutions to fulfill all these goals by:

• Using IT as an enabler to deliver services at lower cost and higher quality.
  
  
• Adding value to the business in strategic, IT-enabled talent management that results in an efficient and effective execution of processes.
  
  
• Harvesting the benefits of implemented technology by applying emerging technologies.
  
  
• Accelerating learning to keep skills honed and relevant.
  
  
• Enabling collaboration and intelligent distribution of work to help ensure that HR processes run smoothly and use the best available skills.
  
  
• Providing employees with better service from the HR organization to keep them motivated.

Accenture has the capabilities, experience and insight to help clients use technology effectively to create a streamlined, automated HR process framework that enables high performance. In addition, Accenture designs and implements the right IT support for the HR organization into the future.

Accenture High Performance Business research shows that high-performance businesses realize more value from their enterprise systems than do their less-successful counterparts[2]. Accenture Human Capital Management Solutions has the experience and capabilities to help organizations use technology innovatively to leverage their talent to deliver high performance.

Using proven practices, Accenture helps organizations use technology to automate manual processes, redesigning them to integrate with management tools, knowledge repositories and document and data management systems that streamline and expedite workflows and reporting. The Accenture Human Capital Development Framework provides a common language to drive all talent processes and mandate proven practices. Accenture offers:

• More than 7,500 human performance professionals and access to a pool of nearly 60,000 SAP and Oracle specialists.
  
  
• A comprehensive range of software products and services at lower cost and higher quality (see Specific Services).
  
  
• Distinctive, global capabilities through the Accenture Global Delivery Network, with more than 83,000 professionals at more than 50 delivery centers worldwide. The Global Delivery Network delivers systems integration, application/infrastructure/business process outsourcing and technology consulting services and solutions.

Human Capital Management Solutions delivered the first SAP R/3 HCM solution, and has subsequently provided more than 1,300 IT-enabled human capital management implementation projects.

By partnering with Accenture to align programs that achieve overall workforce transformation, organizations have a real opportunity to both achieve human capital mastery and drive high performance.

Accenture Human Capital Management Solutions can help clients maximize their human capital investment through the use of SAP ERP Human Capital Management (HCM) in a number of ways, offering an end-to-end capability if required:

• Implementation services and solutions: Long experience and deep skills help ensure that Accenture clients get the maximum planned benefits from their software investment.
  
  
• Accenture Software for SAP Human Capital Management: With a strong mix of HR experience and knowledge optimizing HR processes using SAP HCM, our innovative software suite speeds up the implementation of SAP HCM and helps HR business process work more efficiently.
  
  
• HR outsourcing: Accenture offers a comprehensive set of outsourcing services that dramatically reduces costs and improves organizational capabilities.