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WHAT WE DO
The work we do
Accenture Strategy shapes our clients’ future, combining deep business insight with the understanding of how technology will impact industry and business models. Our focus on issues related to digital disruption, competitive agility, operating and business model, as well as the future workforce, helps our clients find future value and growth in a digital world.
WHY we are different
Accenture Strategy understands the mechanics of organizational success. We have the people, skills, insights and deep industry experience needed to shape new forms of client value. We offer highly objective points of view with emphasis on business, technology and analytics, leveraging our deep industry experience. That’s high performance, delivered.
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COMPETING IN THE FUTURE ON HBR
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COMPETITIVE AGILITY VIA THE ECONOMIST
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ARC OF AGILITY ON FORTUNE
Today's business leaders are adopting a mindset that favors future-focused growth and ongoing innovation. Learn how to zero-in on growth by visiting our content hub on Fortune.com.
Shaping the Future Workforce
Mark Knickrehm, Group Chief Executive – Accenture Strategy, shares insights on how leaders of companies can prepare the Future Workforce to thrive in a world where artificial intelligence, big data analytics, and advanced robotics make it possible for machines to take on tasks that once required a person to do them.
"75% of C-level execs say they are currently accelerating investments in #AI and #AppliedIntelligence."
"Most workers believe that technology and #AI are part of the future and they want to engage with it."
Want to read more from other Accenture Leaders?
Read Paul Daugherty and James Wilson’s book: Human + Machine – Reimagining work in the age of AI
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C-Suite Themes
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Business and Technology
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Industry Focus
WHAT WE THINK
Oil and Gas: How do you compete with free?
Learn why oil and gas companies should use all the data they have available.
Utilities executives: Why reinvent the wheel on diversification opportunities?
Utilities are facing diminishing markets, tighter available margins and higher competition from both new entrants and traditional competitors.
The consumer goods supply chain: Growth engine or growth enemy?
With a zero-based mindset, companies can unlock supply chain savings for reinvestment now.
Is your working capital really working?
As companies continue to invest in innovation and respond to disruption, the ability to optimize the use of working capital will be a key enabler of strategy.
A new formula for oil and gas exploration
Oil and gas companies are focusing their exploration activities on low-risk opportunities.
Reconfiguring the supply chain to serve segments of one
Steps to creating supply chain ecosystems that can power growth and competitive advantage in the coming years.
Scaling an insights factory for B2B growth
An Insights Factory turns raw data into highly valuable insights that can help B2B companies grow and make better decisions.
AI – a retail growth opportunity hiding in plain sight
Retail AI will extend across the value chain transforming marketing, merchandising, customer engagement and supply chain. Consider the possibilities.
Overcome the blind flight
Reveal better business insights through analytics-powered process management
Re-imagining the future of upstream production operations
Key concepts illustrating part of Accenture's re-imagined production domain vision.
Mitigate the risk of GDPR in Pharma M&A
Learn the key preventive steps to shield companies from monetary penalties related to GDPR.
Analytics: Getting out of the starting blocks quickly
Pilot first, transform second and generate value along the entire way.
Three things every finance leader should do to accelerate their digital agenda-Part 2
Finance leaders say good-bye to traditional finance function in digital evolution.
Is your eCommerce parts strategy in low gear?
eCommerce is the fastest growing channel for aftermarket parts across all industrial segments globally.
Recharge semiconductor growth with M&A
Semiconductor companies use M&A as a tool to help them transform their business.
Cornerstone of future growth: Ecosystems
Businesses must pursue innovative, agile business models to remain competitive and grow outside of their own industry—and many perceive ecosystems as a strong opportunity to do so.
Digital value or digital vanity?
When companies zero base digital they understand benefits from digital investments.
Four disruption-fueled growth opportunities make energy prices irrelevant
What new business models will innovative approaches yield? Four possibilities have been identified.
US employers need to step up to skill up for AI
Read how AI can improve productivity and drive efficiencies.
Can intelligent fulfillment fix retail delivery woes?
Retailers need to investigate alternative options for fulfillment.
Putting the consumer back into consumer-packaged goods
Digital can help CPG companies live up to the “consumer” in their moniker – putting the focus back on the consumer.
Technology in M&A: Catalyst or enabler of change?
In M&A two roles for technology are coming into sharp focus: Catalyst or Enabler.
Banking M&A: The digital fix
Banking M&A is on the rise, but its main source of value no longer lies in mere size or scale.
Flip side of the digital revolution
Find out what companies can do to reap the full value from digital responsibility.
Who’s the boss when people and robots work together?
Accenture’s blog explains how technology and human ingenuity combine to drive new sources of innovation and growth across the supply chain.
Three things every finance leader should do to accelerate their digital agenda
The first in a three-part series addressing how finance leaders can accelerate their digital agenda.
The cloud partnering proposition: APIs and microservices
Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and microservices enable partnering.
Measurement & visibility: Two sides of the channel spending coin
Learn what your company can do to evaluate and integrate with growing partner ecosystems more easily.
3 steps to making same-day delivery a cost reduction solution
Accenture Strategy found that same-day delivery can be executed for cost reduction.
Blockchain for the supply chain
Leaders must commit to blockchain as a foundational technology for the supply networks of the future.
Sweetening the deal: Digitizing M&A
Digital technologies increase M&A deal speed, as well as foster new M&A-related business models previously not possible.
3 ways to maximize the value from your technology spend
Extracting value from technology is essential for growth and competitiveness.
Making IT work
Learn how business and IT executives predict massive change ahead for the IT workforce, but many still underestimate its scale, speed and scope.
RFID: A nexus of customer experience, profitability and technology
RFID should be at the heart of every Retailer's omnichannel strategy.
Resilience: A foundation for growth and profitability in Life Sciences
The ability of an organization to recover from difficulty, adapt to change and persevere in the face of unexpected disruption.
AI: The momentum mindset
How to find a more agile way of approaching AI to place your company among the leaders in unlocking new sources of growth.
ZBx?
Get serious (about culture change)
Our research has found that, since 2013, zero-based budgeting has exponentially grown by 57 percent every year.
Different strokes for different folks: Secret sauce to acquiring digital capabilities
Organizations must adopt the appropriate technology at the right time, using the right methodology.
Catching the rabbit: How robots will close the supply chain talent gap
Automation could be the key to re-shaping the supply chain operating models of the future.
Exploring blockchain: Optimizing maintenance
Learn how blockchain introduces trust back into the process by offering transparency, fidelity and a clear audit trail.
Beyond the Zero-Based Budgeting buzz
How to separate the facts from the hype surrounding Zero-Based Budgeting (ZBB).
Revenue growth: Perception or reality?
Executives are bullish on growth prospects but blind to threats that undermine business and operating models.
The front office: Where profits go to die
Zero-based front office (ZBFO) drives customer profitability, growth and efficiency.
The three keys to success for an agile enterprise
Businesses are becoming responsive to changes in customer demand, and taking proactive steps to stay ahead of competitors.
Building construction growth with digital bricks and mortar
Smart construction requires smart systems.
Build, buy or partner? Making the most of M&A strategy in Consumer Goods
Large Consumer Goods companies are searching for the growth formula that works.
The writing's on the well
Oil and gas companies are about to enter a new paradigm. It is being shaped by a combination of factors that are flipping the energy industry on its head.
Exceed expectations with extraordinary customer experiences
Humans have made M&A, Mergers and Acquisitions, an art. Adding technology makes it a science.
Tech-led M&A: From art to science
Humans have made M&A, Mergers and Acquisitions, an art. Adding technology makes it a science.
The activist CFO—an
opportunity not a threat
Seven fundamental elements
that the activist CFO
focuses on to deliver value to investors.
B2B: Better to best
B2B executives consider customer experience to be a critical factor for success. Four areas across the customer engagement lifecycle to set CX masters apart.
Put your trust in hyper - relevance
Leaders take personalized customer experiences to a whole new level
Future Workforce:
Reworking the Revolution
In the age of artificial intelligence (AI),
business success will increasingly depend on people and machines collaborating with each other.
Customer centricity in utilities
Consumer demands on utilities are far different than on most other industries because energy purchases are considered more and more as a basic commodity.
Exponential growth powered by AI
Learn how AI must evolve from being a hot new trend to a seamless enabler — woven into the fabric of the enterprise and working alongside and augmenting people.
Utilities at a crossroads:
Live in the past or conquer the future
There is a powerful opportunity for electric utilities to
use cost management and technology innovation to
improve margins and fuel growth.
HR sparks a change
reaction
A high-velocity business operating in
today’s disruption-fueled
environment requires a high-velocity
workforce.
Employee experience
reimagined
Learn how the employee experience
is the new battleground for
competitive advantage.
Distribution debunked
to unlock growth
Integrated distributor engagement
model for emerging markets.
Is your supply chain in a death spiral?
Zero based supply chain: Deliver
superior supply chain performance
at the right cost while fueling growth.
What’s your company’s AI IQ?
Learn how companies using AI to its full sophistication have the key to leapfrogging competitors.
Connected wellness:
Livening-up life insurance
Evolve the life insurance value
proposition from compensation to
wellness to drive relevancy and growth.
Healthcare talent shortage: Fact or fiction?
Learn what U.S. providers need to know about the 2030 healthcare future workforce.
Reroute your strategy
for last-mile delivery
It's time to rethink logistics
operations strategies to stay
competitive—before it's too late.
Live the growth dream in Asia
Learn how companies can go digital to unleash $4 trillion in new consumer goods spending in Asia.
Multi-speed IT sourcing
strategy for high speed
value
It’s time for a Multi-Speed IT
Sourcing Strategy.
Life insurers' secret
weapon: behavioral
economics
Learn how behavioral economics
can drive middle market growth in
life insurance.
The right chemistry for resilience
The chemical industry is affected by economic cyclicality with volatile customer demand and fluctuating raw material prices.
Gen Z rising - Global edition
How can employers show new graduates the benefits of a large company experience before these potential employees make their first job choice?
Shaping the agile
workforce
Businesses must be agile to succeed in
this changing world. And an agile
business requires an agile workforce.
Moore...or less?
Semiconductor companies can keep pace with Moore’s Law. The question is whether they should.
Are city shoppers
getting secondhand
treatment?
Consumer packaged goods
companies are overlooking growth
opportunities in developed market
cities.
Unconventionals: Fueling the next shale evolution
Unconventional oil and gas must maintain their focus on optimizing efficiencies and oil-well economics.
Zeroing out the past
Zero-based organization designs the
right operating model needed to fuel
growth.
Architecting the 2025 supply chain
Is your supply chain future ready? Read the immediate steps you can take to prepare for the future supply chain.
Automation in consumer
goods: People led,
technology enabled
Consumer packaged goods (CPG)
multinationals must embrace digital
disruption as fully as their people are.
End of the local telecom store? Not so fast...
The days of Telecom retail stores driving communication service provider (CSP) company growth are over.
ACQUISITIONS
Acquisitions are a key element of our inorganic growth strategy. Through targeted acquisitions, we will expand and strengthen our capabilities and accelerate bringing new services and expertise to our clients. Recently, we have made acquisitions to increase our industry capabilities as well as to help our client improve their competitiveness.
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IBB Consulting
October 9, 2017
Expanding Accenture Strategy capabilities in communications, media & technology
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2nd Road
October 31, 2016
Giving Accenture Strategy clients a competitive edge through design thinking
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Kurt Salmon
November 1, 2016
Enabling Accenture Strategy to deliver end-to-end strategy services for retail
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Javelin Group
June 29, 2015
Expanding Accenture Strategy digital capabilities in the retail industry.
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Axia Limited
April 3, 2015
Bolstering Accenture Strategy capabilities to help clients improve competitiveness.
WHO WE WORK WITH
NXP
Semiconductors
NXP Semiconductors is driving
innovation in the secure connected, end
to end security & privacy and smart
connected solutions market.
Sydney Water
Creating a clear, actionable link between
the company’s strategy and a practical
transformation roadmap
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WHO WE ARE
Mark A. Knickrehm
Group Chief Executive – Accenture Strategy
"Gone are the days when you had weeks or months to come up with a point of view… The key, is not just the insights, it’s what do you do about them?"
CAREERS AT THE INTERSECTION OF BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY
Join a new kind of strategy consulting firm. One that operates at the intersection of business and technology. Combining a deep level of functional and industry expertise with an unrivalled understanding of technology and an analytics-led approach, we’re devising innovative strategies that unlock value and create real impact for our clients and the world around us. For you, this means unique opportunities to grow and build your career in the new digital economy.
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