Strategic Cost Management from Accenture Federal Services

Building a Leaner Government of the Future

How can federal agencies meet their missions amid unprecedented budget cuts and growing expectations for high-quality services? They must adapt. It starts with changing the status quo—improving budgeting and planning accuracy, optimizing operations and reallocating resources, driving rapid cost reduction, increasing productivity and boosting efficiency across people, processes and technologies.

A trusted advisor to the federal community, Accenture Federal Services offers comprehensive strategic cost management services to help agencies achieve the mission while reducing costs. We take a holistic approach to helping our federal clients identify and capture cost savings. We bring an understanding of how people, process and technology work together—and where improvements can be made for the most benefit. As such, our services span from strategy and idea development through implementation and realization of results.

Amid increasing pressures to better manage costs while providing the critical services that citizens and businesses demand, Accenture Federal Services can help agencies realize tangible benefits that impact the government of today, and for the future.

Bringing the insights and experience of 4,000 dedicated US employees focused on federal clients—and backed by the resources and perspectives of a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company with more than 249,000 employees serving the world’s largest and most complex companies and governments—Accenture Federal Services is the advisor of choice to the federal community because we:

• Deliver results. We are committed to our clients’ goals and confident in our competence, so we offer value-based arrangements so clients pay for results, not hours.
  
  
• Focus on excellence. On-time, on-budget delivery is in our DNA, as is a collaborative working spirit aligned with our clients’ needs.
  
  
• Drive outcomes with proven assets. We bring more than just a high-caliber team, our resources are backed by proven assets and solutions that combine produced results.
  
  
• Draw on leading practices. Based on our experience with every Cabinet-level agency and 92 of the Fortune 100, we bring extensive knowledge of what works in government and forward-thinking commercial organizations.
  
  

At Accenture Federal Services, our services span from strategy and idea development through implementation and realization of results. We help our clients drive change by focusing on the following important areas:

• Operational improvement. The focus is on reducing costs while improving service effectiveness and program processes. This approach focuses leadership on reducing complexity, addressing constraints, and resolving issues to drive improved performance in the finance, procurement, human capital, customer service and mission spaces.
  
  
• IT portfolio rationalization. Technology is a critical component to federal operations and can often be better strategically managed. For example, cloud computing can reduce overall maintenance costs through system rationalization and shift funds toward value-added activities.
  
  
• Shared services. The consolidation of administrative or support functions from several departments into a single entity whose primary function is to provide services as efficiently and effectively as possible. The focus is on reducing costs and increasing value by transforming service delivery.