Over the course of the past decade, Accenture’s IT organization has built itself into a global, enabling platform for a high-performance business—but by reducing expenditure and simplifying systems rather than by spending and adding systems. Conventional wisdom may suggest that the route to a stronger IT organization lies in more systems, applications and power. But perceptive executives appreciate that when it comes to IT, the opposite tends to be true. In IT, less is definitely more. This process of “thinning” has yielded astonishing results: a staggering 300 percent return on investment. IT spend has been reduced by 69 percent as a percentage of revenue, the number of global applications has reduced by almost a third and multiple platforms have been consolidated into one. No wonder IT excellence is a key enabler of high performance!
Read the full case study to learn the 10 steps to leaner, stronger IT—as proved by Accenture itself.
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