Fast Forward to Growth: Seizing Opportunities in High-Growth Markets
The vast majority of multinational companies are looking to high-growth emerging markets as part of their efforts to achieve high performance, particularly given more limited opportunities in developed economies.

Global Leadership Teams: The View from the Top
Over the past year, we have interviewed three dozen CEOs and top leaders at multinational companies to see how they handle what R. Gopalakrishnan, executive director of India’s Tata Group, called the “creative tensions” of competing on a global scale.

IT and the Changing Competitive Landscape: 10 Questions Executives Need to Ask to be “Futures Ready”
Executives believe global competition will affect how businesses use and organize IT in their enterprise. Yet while global competition is intense, how today’s competitive trends may play out and shape the coming years is far from clear.

No Shortage of Talent: How the Global Market is producing the STEM Skills Needed for Growth
Many business leaders fear shortages of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) talent in the coming years. Countless reports contend that the lack of STEM talent could hold back economic growth, especially in developed economies. And surveys show that managers believe that they won’t be able to find enough trained people to meet their needs.

Creating a Just-in-Time Workforce
To keep up with today’s fast-paced, constantly changing business environment, organizations need to ensure they have the skills when and where they need them. New solutions can help ensure organizations don’t skip a beat by enabling them to immediately locate skills based on demand.

High Performance Manufacturing: India’s Next Opportunity
In India, the unique character of three key business levers—business technologies and processes, labor and talent, and partner networks – provide manufacturers with the opportunity to distinguish themselves from competition both at home and abroad. Our research indicates that how India’s manufacturers deploy these levers in their business often determines their capacity to achieve high performance.

The Wide World of Consumer IT: A Crash Course for Executives
Androids, iPads, Facebook and YouTube have found a new home away from home. Many people now use them and other consumer devices and applications extensively for work. The quickly changing world of consumer IT is bringing new worries to businesses, but also opportunities to those that understand them. This article presents a guide to the consumer technologies that are starting to infiltrate the enterprise—and what executives need to know to stay ahead of the curve.

What Executives Really Need to Know about Employee Engagement
Accenture research reveals the key drivers of engagement, and how companies can not only create it in their organizations, but more important, sustain high levels of engagement over time.

New Waves of Growth for India: Unlocking Opportunities
Accenture Institute for High Performance Business report on growth opportunities and strategies for businesses in India.

Dancing on the Stage of a Multi-Polar World: The Path to Globalization for Chinese
Read a joint report produced by Accenture Institute for High Performance and the China Enterprise Confederation on how Chinese enterprises are faring post financial crisis.

Download the executive summary [PDF, 1.40MB]

Global Leadership Teams: What’s Missing at the Top
Read about Accenture’s point of view article on Global Leadership teams and the behaviors, composition and cognitive styles associated to them.

Jumping the S-Curve: How to Beat the Growth Cycle, Get On Top, and Stay There
Winning once isn’t enough to make a successful company. Accenture’s Tim Breene and Paul Nunes explain how high-performers keep on getting it right.

Read an overview of the book: Download Chapter 1 & Chapter 2

Climate Change and Health: Framing the Issues
Oxford University’s Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, GlaxoSmithKline and Accenture summarize what is known about the impact of climate change on health—and invite partnership in growing our understanding of the issues and plugging knowledge gaps.

Gearing Up for Growth: Five Imperatives for Success in Emerging Markets
Over the next five years, it’s expected that emerging markets will account for 62 percent of global growth. Accenture presents five imperatives for success in these markets. What are yours?

The Future of Electronics and High Tech: Developing International Operating Models for the Next Era of Competition
A recent Accenture survey of electronics and high tech industry Chief Operating Officers (COOs) found that more than 75 percent of respondents are making global operations a priority in the coming three years.

Cloud Rise: Rewards and Risks at the Dawn of Cloud Computing
Read about Accenture research that shows rewards and risks at the dawn of cloud computing and how global companies are using this powerful technology.

Analytics at Work: Smarter Decisions, Better Results
Analytics at Work shows how organizations can use data and analysis to make better decisions. Based on a key framework, it provides ideas and tools covering the whole range of business decisions—from those automated and embedded in business processes to gain speed and consistency, to unique and complex decisions made by management teams based on emerging information.

Counting on Analytical Talent
Analytics provides companies with an increasingly important way to improve their decision making and generate business benefits. This article explores how companies are harnessing the “talent power” of their analytics specialists.

Democratizing Innovation: Making Innovation the Driver of Inclusive Growth
Innovation is the key driver of growth in any economy. As we have emphasized for the past two years, in the Indian context, the focus on innovation must follow a special path of inclusiveness - involving everyone in the country, not just those who produce and consume at the high end.