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WHAT WE THINK
FRAC (R)evolution: Delivering more with less
Oil and gas companies can achieve profitable growth in the Frac 2.0 era.
From back (office) to the future
Learn how leveraging a zero-based mindset as part of a digital journey, can help companies thrive in any environment.
FRAC (R)evolution: Improving returns with growth
Read how US Light Tight Oil market has once again propelled hydraulic fracturing to the forefront.
Connected hospitality: Investing in IoT to own the stay
Hospitality organizations must look to emerging technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT) to differentiate.
Autonomous driving: The emerging battlefield
As the technology matures, profits have already started shifting toward mobility and connected service providers.
4 things impacting healthcare’s future workforce
Healthcare future workforce must position for success in the intelligent economy.
Auto suppliers: Are you pivoting to new growth areas wisely?
Learn how automotive suppliers can pivot to drive profitable new growth as OEMs reshape their business models in this new Accenture insight.
Navigating disruption and convergence in energy and materials
Energy- and resource-intensive companies must plan their futures in an environment where uncertainty has become systemic.
Findings of the 2018 RFID in Retail Study
Retailers are enabling and investing in RFID to meet the demands of consumers today.
Upstream development in a digital world
Two digital solutions can help oil and gas companies streamline and integrate their upstream operations.
ZBx: A catalyst to fuel growth in retail
Companies are adopting ZBx. If you are not innovating and growing, your retail brand will become extinct.
Preparing for the golden age of gas
Accenture Strategy shares three things oil and gas companies should do to gain dominant position in energy mix.
Why Blockchain should be powering your digital factory
Blockchain can enable the digital factory and transform manufacturing to spur significant growth, boost profitability, and increase sustainability.
Digital agility: From high hopes to higher value
Oil and gas companies are investing in digital to become more agile.
The sharing economy hits smart phones in a win/win
Read insights about how bringing smart phones into the sharing economy is a win/win situation.
Future of finance: Practice Applied Intelligence
Finance leaders have an opportunity to profoundly change how their organizations operate.
7 ways gas is shaping our energy future
Read more on this in our insights from the World Gas Conference 2018.
A catalyst for chemicals growth
Chemicals companies are missing out on opportunity due to a lack of project resources and outdated ways of project execution.
Three ways leaders accelerate healthcare decision making
How leaders can improve governance and decision making in healthcare by focusing on three areas.
Unleashing value in the health payer back office
Health Payers should drive additional growth from an often-overlooked area: the back office.
Digital unlocks the profitability of product cost analytics
Digital tools can help companies gain cost transparency and collaboration across the product team, getting new products to market quickly.
Digital technologies fuel enhanced ZBB
Accenture research finds that leading companies, including digital technologies are applying Zero-based budgeting approach across the business.
Tackling the cost of a 5G build
5G will fuel the next generation of business models—transforming how we work and play globally.
Playbook for success: Operating model transformation
Firms can greatly increase their chances of success and set a course towards long-term, profitable growth.
The next chapter in customer transformation for utilities
Read the BizTech Byte on the next chapter in customer transformation for utilities.
Enhancing business insights using data analytics and AI
The amount of data available to insurance brokers has increased dramatically in recent years.
How the U.S. wireless industry can drive future economic value
Accenture Strategy study shows the wireless industry has a larger impact on U.S. economy than many realize, contributing US$475 billion in GDP.
“Organize to Analyze”—How integrated business services enable enterprise-wide analytics
Leading companies extend their use of shared services to manage enterprise-wide analytics capabilities.
The case for optimism and growth in local media
Local media must find ways to evolve their core offerings while pivoting their businesses to meet customer's needs.
The future of compute: No servers. Just services.
Cloud-based services provide that speed and flexibility in a way no other technology can.
End of the local telecom store? Not so fast...
The days of Telecom retail stores driving communication service provider (CSP) company growth are over.
Fast, targeted, fit for purpose: Rethinking IT integration in M&A
Technology is a key driver to M&A outcomes, as an enabler to capture value faster, and as a new category of assets and capabilities for the business.
Leaders are taking their vitamin Z
Leaders are taking their Vitamin Z: ZBx, a zero-based mindset.
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.
Automation in consumer
goods: People led,
technology enabled
Consumer packaged goods (CPG)
multinationals must embrace digital
disruption as fully as their people are.
Re-imagining the future of upstream production operations
Key concepts illustrating part of Accenture's re-imagined production domain vision.
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.
Zeroing out the past
Zero-based organization designs the
right operating model needed to fuel
growth.
Mitigate the risk of GDPR in Pharma M&A
Research finds that Pharmaceutical executives anticipate their M&A activity will drive substantial growth.
Analytics: Getting out of the starting blocks
Accenture research explains how Chief Financial Officers are using data and analytics to drive higher returns on investment.
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.
Unconventionals: Fueling the next shale evolution
Unconventional oil and gas must maintain their focus on optimizing efficiencies and oil-well economics.
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.
Moore...or less?
Semiconductor companies can keep pace with Moore’s Law. The question is whether they should.
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.
Are city shoppers
getting secondhand
treatment?
Consumer packaged goods
companies are overlooking growth
opportunities in developed market
cities.
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.
Shaping the agile
workforce
Businesses must be agile to succeed in
this changing world. And an agile
business requires an agile workforce.
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).
Are we measuring what matters?
The Top 10 strategic growth drivers identified by business leaders.
Revenue growth: Perception or reality?
Executives are bullish on growth prospects but blind to threats that undermine business and operating models.
The Activist CFO—An opportunity not a threat
For many CFOs an activist investor threat can be a significant distraction because time, resources and focus are diluted.
The front office: Where profits go to die
Zero-based front office (ZBFO) drives customer profitability, growth and efficiency.
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.
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?
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
Excellence in medical management
The path to workers’ compensation profitability is digital
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.
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