Accenture plans to dramatically increase the scale and the strategic role of two different types of consulting service - management consulting and technology consulting. Consulting will become the ‘tip of the spear’ in many of Accenture’s go-to-market efforts, intended to pull along additional business for the firm’s systems integration and outsourcing units. By ramping up its consulting investments, and by providing several levels of integration among its various business units, Accenture is well positioned to deliver on its objective of turning clients into ‘high-performance businesses’. Accenture’s moves should also help it continue to reign - along with IBM Global Services - at the top of the services industry hierarchy.