Accenture Outlook

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:14:57 GMT

Customer-centric strategies, offerings and services are now essential to achieving high performance in a truly networked world. Read More

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 04:21:08 GMT

High performers are adopting a new way of doing business that exploits the power of being simultaneously global and local. Read More

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:21:00 GMT

As discretionary spending disappears, companies must make adjustments in product mix, pricing, promotions and channel strategy. Read More

Meeting the Mandate for Global IT

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:34:02 GMT

CIOs are coming under more and more pressure to control costs, recruit the best talent and serve both the company and its customers from a global perspective. Here's what many of them in North America are doing to meet the challenge of fully globalizing IT capabilities.

Can a New Business Model Save Investment Banking?

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:01:42 GMT

Transparency, liquidity and increased oversight will be prominent features of the new capital markets landscape. The key to growth in this industry: customer-focused financial-product innovation that helps clients identify and manage risk.

How to Make the Most of the Great Consumer Trade Down

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:06:09 GMT

As discretionary spending all but disappears, companies must make adjustments in product mix, pricing, promotions and channel strategy to deliver the innovation today's customers value. By providing offerings with a clear range of desirable benefits and delivering them at the right price point, leading companies will be showing a clear way forward.

The New Talent Equation

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:10:03 GMT

The objective at the heart of successful talent management in difficult times: to think ahead and to think more strategically about creating a workforce with the capabilities to outperform the competition as the economy turns around. A number of fresh approaches are available to help companies go beyond responses focused only on staff reductions.

Private Practices

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:11:46 GMT

The downturn is driving private equity firms away from an emphasis on deal making and toward a new focus on operational improvements—a shift with important implications for public companies.

Everything Elastic

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:14:18 GMT

By Kishore S. Swaminathan, Chief Scientist, Accenture

Adapting to the Multi-Polar World: The New Globalization Playbook

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:16:04 GMT

The dynamics of global competition are rapidly moving away from the traditional mix of product exports, reliance on local partners and single-nation headquarters. High performers are adopting a new way of doing business that exploits the power of being simultaneously global and local.

A Tale of Two Chinas

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:37:53 GMT

The rise of a new economic superstructure in China—featuring companies that are already world-class—is one of two sides to the new China story. The other side is the extent to which many other Chinese companies are struggling.

The Bigger Picture

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:35:00 GMT

In the face of economic turmoil, many public-sector leaders are thinking tactically, not strategically. As a result, they risk overlooking the long-term implications of trends associated with the multi-polar world. To respond successfully, governments must successfully address five critical areas as they develop new ways of working that emphasize creating public value.

Constructive Tension

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:08:13 GMT

Enterprise risk management and enterprise performance management are really two sides of the same coin. To achieve balance between the two, companies must fully integrate risk management with their operating model, performance goals and decision-making frameworks—the layers of day-to-day accountability within the organization as well as the bigger rules and governance structures by which it operates.