Accenture Blog for Internal IT
Accenture's internal IT organization supports a large workforce, more than 246,000 people in 54 countries to work anytime, anywhere - all on a single, global IT or technology platform. We run our IT as a business, always working to successfully drive business outcomes for Accenture. Our blog will shed insight into IT industry trends and Accenture’s own successes and challenges along the road to running a high performance IT organization.
Your quest to move IT from a cost center to a value center is on track. You developed an IT governance structure and articulated a business strategy. You created a menu of managed services that meet your customers’ needs, and you designed a proces...
With Accenture’s quarter of a million employees working with clients in 120 countries, the need for innovative technologies to facilitate and support virtual collaboration was unmistakable. I am Bill Hub, senior director of Workplace Technology an...
You know your IT department is a treasure, but do your customers know it? Creating the right IT measurement tools will help you translate technical metrics into a strong business case that your enterprise leadership and stakeholders will come to v...
Marshall Field & Company, a Chicago based retailing giant of the last century, built its reputation on the slogan, “Give the Lady What She Wants.” More than 100 years later, that’s an applicable business strategy for any IT department. I am ...
As you transform your IT department into an organization that runs like a business, it is critical to behave like one. And nowhere is that more apparent than in the decision making process for IT investments, when your enterprise determines how it...
Welcome to my first post in a six-part series that discusses the value of running IT like a business. Running IT like a business marries the strategies of technology with business to maximize the contribution that IT can bring to your overall ...
Tremendous value is gained from a well established governance structure inside your IT organization, including providing the framework to manage the rush to cloud computing. Because getting on the cloud requires nothing more than a credit card, an...
The third and final installment of TTITITA… The Consumerization of IT. Read Part 1 and Part 2.
8) Bring Your Own Technology (BYOT) is not about the technology. It’s about the data. I, like many of my colleagues at other companies, are constantly...
Part 2 of my thoughts on the Consumerization of IT. Read Part 1 first if you can.
4) Technology has integrated work and life. Way back when I started in IT (late 1980’s), technology was distinct. There was work technology (mainframes, terminals, ...
Welcome back to the Accenture Internal IT Blog and my third in a series of posts about IT topics. The concept of "I think I think" is to reflect my developing opinions and general uncertainties on these matters. The people who fri...
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