Overview
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, redefining competitiveness, operating and business models as well as the workforce of the future helps our clients find future value and growth in a digital world.
Why We Are Different
Whether focused on strategies for business, technology or operations, Accenture Strategy has the people, skills and experience to effectively shape client value. We offer highly objective points of view on C-suite themes, with an emphasis on business and technology, leveraging our deep industry experience. That’s high performance, delivered.
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C-SUITE THEMES
Get distinctive points of view on the risks and opportunities facing today's leaders and businesses.
Digital Disruption
Workforce of the Future
Global Operating Model
Redefining Competitiveness
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BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY
The worlds of business technology are colliding. The result? Opportunity. That's where we come in.
Advanced Customer Strategy
Mergers & Acquisitions
Talent & Organization
CFO & Enterprise Value
Operations Strategy
Technology Strategy
Digital Strategy
Security
Sustainability
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INDUSTRY FOCUS
Our industry experience enables us to provide working strategies on the ground that shape our client's businesses and ecosystems.
LATEST THINKING
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Value-based cost reduction: Finding the optimal strategy for revenue growth
By taking a holistic view of business line costs, banks can re-evaluate optimization.LEARN MORE -
Is your operating model holding you back from growth?
Businesses have plans to drive growth and competitiveness, but sometimes, nothing happens.LEARN MORE -
Yesterday’s customer service agent... tomorrow’s empathetic advisor
The digital banking relationship center of the futureLEARN MORE -
Judgment calls: Preparing leaders to thrive in the age of intelligent machines
The quality of “judgment work” is poised to become a source of competitive advantage for the workforce of the future.LEARN MORE -
Old methods deliver old results
Use Design Thinking and Prime Value Chain analysis to simplify experiences and drive outcomes.LEARN MORE -
From lead weight to launch pad: Realizing digital objectives while managing legacy optimization
The multispeed approach to pulling digital value out of legacy systems.LEARN MORE -
Redefining the rules of competitiveness in the digital age
Discover three strategies companies need in order to boost competitiveness in the digital age.LEARN MORE -
Survival of the fittest
Migratory talent patterns spell trouble for established high-tech firmsLEARN MORE -
Customers think about money differently today. Banks must, too.
An appreciation of what customers value can revitalize relationships and growth strategies.LEARN MORE -
Technology companies cannot buy their way to competitive advantage. Or can they?
The best sourcing and procurement organizations manage costs and drive business growth.LEARN MORE -
Platform strategies: How the rules of competitiveness have changed in the era of ecosystems
Digital disruption is leading to platform-based ecosystems—but are businesses ready?LEARN MORE -
Good science: The new role of Medical Affairs in an outcomes-focused world
Medical Affairs is poised to have a greater impact on the healthcare ecosystems they serve.LEARN MORE -
Digital wormholes accelerate move to new markets
Using digital to accelerate new market entry, Davids are the new Goliaths.LEARN MORE -
Boosting competitiveness at the intersection of Claims and Procurement
Learn why those who win at the intersection can improve loss ratios by 1-3 percentage pointsLEARN MORE -
Increasing agility to fuel growth and redefine competitiveness in the communications industry
Communications companies are focused on cost reduction to reinvest for growth, but they are challenged by execution.LEARN MORE -
The digital emperor has no clothes
As digital technologies expose organizations to more scrutiny, leadership strategy must include managing radical transparency.LEARN MORE -
Swift, agile and ruthlessly customer focused
What we can learn from digital innovation hubsLEARN MORE -
Assault and batteries: Protecting all aspects of the grid
Learn how utility grids have gotten smarter—and more vulnerable—than ever. And what to do to protect them.LEARN MORE -
Are you prepared to sell in the age of distraction?
A shift to Outcome Selling can help sales teams regain their focus—and their sales momentum.LEARN MORE -
Answering the call for personalized customer experiences
To grow their retail revenue, telcos need to shift their mindsets—and their selling models.LEARN MORE -
Six steps to building a digital ecosystem for innovation and growth
Open collaboration beyond company boundaries has become essential for creating new forms of disruptive growth.LEARN MORE -
Workforce of the future: Business change and the millennial challenge
Banks need an innovative and dynamic image to attract and retain the workforce of tomorrow.LEARN MORE -
Investment banking technology: Jettisoning legacy architectures
Banks may find it valuable to establish a different operating model for legacy applications.LEARN MORE -
Front-line offense: Is your front office helping or hindering customer retention?
A proactive, digital operating model can morph your front office into a customer-service star.LEARN MORE -
Carve-outs: The new darling of M&A?
Why companies should be just as focused on selling a business as buying oneLEARN MORE -
New rules for culture change
Understanding what drives culture change can make all the difference between transformations that fail and those that succeed.LEARN MORE -
China has changed. It’s time for multinationals to do the same.
Precision, agility, and local co-innovation are the keys to success in the “new” China.LEARN MORE -
How large is your cybersecurity Threat Gap?
New threats are at your virtual gates. A big cyber spend is not enough to keep them at bay.LEARN MORE -
Digital factory: Cracking the code to success
How manufacturers can get the biggest return on their digital investmentsLEARN MORE -
Decision edge—Boosting competitiveness through “scientific” strategic decision making
When it comes to decision making, the only thing under our control is the process used to arrive at the decision.LEARN MORE -
A machine in the C-suite
Not just a decision-support tool, intelligent machines are becoming active partners in the C-suite.LEARN MORE -
From reporting the past to architecting the future: Meet the Finance 2020 workforce
Digital technologies are rapidly reinventing finance—and the workforce will never be the same.LEARN MORE -
Digital disruption: The growth multiplier
Optimizing digital investments to realize higher productivity and growth.LEARN MORE -
Is performance management performing?
Revitalize performance management to better support business objectives and the workforce of the future.LEARN MORE -
Digital disconnect in customer engagement
Companies need to rebalance digital and traditional investments to drive growth. -
Flip the switch on: Re-energizing the workforce to power the digital utility
Digital disruption, market-based pricing and renewable energy alternatives are challenging the traditional utility operating model.LEARN MORE -
Silicon Valley’s new darling: Healthcare
Tech companies and venture capitalists are investing to disrupt healthcare. Are they getting it right?LEARN MORE -
CFO reality check: Good intentions in cost management are not good enough
Cost reduction is key, but as CFOs pivot to growth, many risk leaving the cost flank exposed.LEARN MORE -
Energy Perspectives: Ushering in collaboration and integration
Returning the oil and gas industry to the era of superior returnsLEARN MORE -
IQ plus EQ
How technology will unlock the emotional intelligence of the workforce of the futureLEARN MORE -
The key to sales productivity and growth? Spend less time selling
Leaders spend less time selling products and more time delivering customer experiences (CX).LEARN MORE -
Corporate Disruptors: How business is turning global challenges into opportunities
A new Accenture Strategy report shows sustainable development and business value are not mutually exclusive.LEARN MORE -
Digital disruption: The growth multiplier
Optimizing digital investments to realize higher productivity and growthLEARN MORE -
Service is the new sales. Are you ready to seize this opportunity?
In today’s always-on world, growth is dependent on service experiences that keep customers engaged—and spending more.LEARN MORE -
Managers and machines, unite!
Intelligent machines are poised to dramatically shift management roles and recast the workforce of the future.LEARN MORE -
The gig experience: Unleashing the potential of your talent and your business
Insights from the Accenture Strategy 2016 U.S. College Graduate Employment StudyLEARN MORE
Acquisitions
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Javelin Group
June 29, 2015Expanding Accenture Strategy digital capabilities in the retail industry.
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Axia Limited
April 3, 2015Bolstering Accenture Strategy capabilities to help clients improve competitiveness.
In The News
CLIENT CASE STUDIES
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GLOBAL LAW FIRM
Integrating business and technology in a global law firm with digital capabilitiesLEARN MORE -
GLOBAL HEALTH AND WELL-BEING CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION
Visibility and analytics networks to improve access to healthcareLEARN MORE
MEET OUT LEADERS
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Who will help shape the future of your business?
Meet the leaders who help guide our clients, our teams and our vision.
"Digital transformation presents the most significant threats and opportunities any of us have faced in business. And yet, there’s a risk we are still underestimating the impact that digital will have on industry and wider society."
Mark A. Knickrehm
Group Chief Executive – Accenture Strategy
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Who will help shape the future of your business?
Meet the leaders who help guide our clients, our teams and our vision.
"Your Digital Shadow will illuminate insights about you and, in turn, drive how people & organisations approach you."
Nick Taylor
Managing Director – Accenture Strategy, United Kingdom & Ireland
