Accenture Blog for Internal IT
Accenture's internal IT organization supports a large workforce, more than 244,000 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.
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...
If your organization is anything like mine, balancing your users’ enthusiasm for hot, new technologies with your sponsors’ budgets is an ongoing challenge. Mobile apps are no exception here. Users want a line of business application capabilities o...
Reducing IT cost is more involved than simply cutting costs and services. Following the IT cost take-out process involves strategy and systematic planning to reduce cost while also sustaining and enhancing your organization’s IT capability. As the...
This is the first in what I hope to be a series of blogs giving my opinion on some IT industry topics. The concept of "I think I think" is to reflect my developing opinions and general uncertainties on these matters. The peo...
Welcome to my 2nd TTITITA (Ten Things I Think I Think About…) post. The concept of "I think I think" is used to reflect the fact that things change so much in IT, I’m never 100% sure what I think. I received a bunch of good feedback...