Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: Ovum Plc
Published: August 2007
Product Code: R464-639Description 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.
Table of Contents - Key messages
- Consulting is one of Accenture’s most important growth engines
- Accenture’s consulting will complement its systems integration and outsourcing businesses
- Consulting initiatives will help make Accenture a preferred enterprise partner
- Accenture and IBM reign as IT services leaders
- Consulting as the tip of Accenture’s spear
- The increasingly strategic role of Accenture Management Consulting
- Growing demand
- Accenture’s ‘Asset for Differentiation’
- Growth objectives
- The persistence of high-performance business
- Aligning Technology Consulting with Management Consulting
- Creation of the Accenture Technology Consulting group
- Establishing Accenture as a lifecycle partner to its clients
- Accenture as business transformation partner
- Multiple entry points
- Integration facilitation
- Consulting assets
- Accenture’s competitive differentiators
- Using consulting to redefine Accenture’s competitive position
- Launching a virtuous cycle
- Assessing the new competitive consulting landscape
- Competing in and beyond sweet spots
- The IBM factor
- Table of figures
- Figure 1 Ovum Summit’s transformational consulting hierarchy
- Figure 2 Accenture’s industry focus
- Figure 3 Accenture’s scale-based virtuous cycle
- Figure 4 Accenture’s competitive differentiator matrix
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