Technology Consulting Solutions for Nonprofits

Accenture Technology Consulting combines our deep knowledge and experience in technology and strategy development to provide solutions for clients that range from developing an IT strategy to developing solutions for optimizing the client's IT infrastructure and applications.

These uncertain economic times have major implications for nonprofit seeking to achieve and sustain high performance. Economic slowdowns inevitably put cost reduction back on the nonprofit executive’s management agenda, whether to offset pressures on dwindling revenues streams, fulfill mission programs and operational commitments or safeguard endowment reserves. Much of the search for savings inevitably will focus on IT—which means the nonprofit CIO faces the challenge of reducing costs in IT while maintaining service quality and delivering the technology investments required to support the business efficiency agenda.

For CIOs and CEOs facing today’s intensifying focus on IT costs, now is the time to examine a bold, transformational, new approach to IT spending. Accenture Technology Consulting provides services aimed at improving the strategic intent and the overall effectiveness and design of your nonprofit’s information technology.

Accenture’s industry-leading technology consulting capabilities provide a solid and scalable foundation to achieve operational improvements over time. Drawing on both our extensive vendor relationships and our experience, we have identified the best tools to address key operational issues, help nonprofit staff be more productive and reduce the costs of business operations.

From requirements gathering through development, testing, deployment and operations, our delivery tools help nonprofits make the most of industry-shaping applications such as SAP, as well as emerging technology architectures such as Web services and service-oriented architectures.

Accenture research indicates that high-performance organizations view IT as a strategic asset—a source of both operational excellence and competitive advantage. Our Technology Consulting experts help nonprofits adopt that mindset and achieve greater business value from IT.

We have a clear perspective: IT is not merely a cost but a critical contributor to the business, focused on improving business value and performance. Our professionals are experienced with bold, value-creating approaches to IT, bringing boardroom-relevant criteria to IT investments and helping high-performance businesses to "think bigger" about IT's ability to improve operating results.

Accenture continually invests in building next-generation, best-in-class information technology services to better serve our nonprofit clients. Our nonprofit partners have engaged us to help them achieve high performance as well as a lower, more competitive IT cost structure over the long term.

Accenture’s Technology Consulting services for nonprofit organizations focus on:

• High Performance IT
• Improving Delivery Quality
• Encouraging Innovation
• Capability Building and Communication
• Cost Reduction