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Industry
Aerospace and Defense
Commercial Manufacturers, Defense Contractors
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Airline
National Carriers, International Carriers, Airports... |
Automotive
Original Equipment Makers (OEMs), Automotive Suppliers.
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Chemicals
Manufacturers, Suppliers, Customers… |
Communications
Wireline,
Wireless, Cable, Satellite... |
Consumer Goods and Services
Consumer Packaged Goods, Cosmetics, Apparel… |
Electronics and High Tech
Aerospace, Consumer Electronics, Software…
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Energy
Upstream, Downstream |
Financial Services
Banking,
Capital Markets,
Insurance
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Forest Products
Lumber, Pulp, Papermaking...
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Freight and Logistics
Parcel Delivery, Air
Cargo, Trucking and Shipping Fleets…
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Government
Defense, Education, Health, Human Services, Immigration, Justice and Public
Safety, Postal, Revenue |
Health and Life Sciences
Life Sciences,
Payers and Health Plans,
Providers and Government Health |
Industrial Equipment
Machinery,
Automation, Power Generation, Construction...
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Media and Entertainment
Broadcast,
Entertainment,
Publishing, Printing and Portal |
Metals and Mining
Steel, Aluminum, Copper, Zinc, Precious Metals... |
Public Transportation
Integrated eTicketing, Fleet Management, Rail, Tolling Solutions |
Retail
Mass Merchants, Grocery Stores,
Professional Service Firms...
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Travel
Hotels Chains, Car Rental Companies, Casinos...
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Utilities
Electric, Gas, Water... |

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Subject
[1]Consulting
Alliances
At
Accenture, alliances are essential to our number one goal-helping our
clients innovate to move the performance of their business to new heights.
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Change Management
Improve your
organization's ability to adapt to continuous change and new challenges. |
Convergence
Convergence
means different things to different people, but at its heart is the ability
of end-users to consume any content they want, anytime, anywhere.
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Strategy
Identify strategic opportunities, and envision, design and execute
strategies that unlock new sources of value. |
Customer Relationship Management
Improve specific capabilities or transform your marketing, sales and service
capabilities end-to-end. |
Enterprise Performance Management
Refine and optimize our clients' abilities to organize and analyze
financial, operational and external information to create substantial
shareholder value. |
Finance Management
Identify critical
issues in financial management, set a strategic direction, and deliver
complex change successfully.
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Globalization
Read our studies and insights into globalization. |
Government Regulation
Our experts are dedicated to
helping the world's leading government and education organizations achieve
high performance to meet the challenges of a rapidly changing public sector
environment. |
High Performance Business
Our initial research identified that high-performance businesses effectively
balance today's agenda with tomorrow's agenda and achieve competitive
superiority.
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Human Resources Management
Accenture is helping companies substantially increase productivity, market
share and shareholder value by providing innovative approaches to employee
development and human resource management.
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Innovation
Through innovative thinking and cutting-edge research, we help our clients
understand the landscape across several industries. |
Leadership and Talent Management
Our industry experts examine how a performance-oriented culture is
established and nurtured through leadership and talent management. |
Service Management
Reinforce total
customer satisfaction and build ongoing customer loyalty to improve the
performance of your aftermarket business. |
Shareholder Value
Establish a foundation
for the kind of success that the stock market validates over a prolonged
period. |
Supply Chain Management
Build effective supply
chains to raise the bar on customer service, align enterprises and open new
channels.
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Workforce Performance
Deliver more value by focusing on improvements in the performance of your
organization's workforce.
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[2]Technology
Enterprise Integration
Use new technologies and standards to
connect and streamline business processes.
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Enterprise Solutions
Oracle
Solutions,
PeopleSoft Solutions,
SAP Solutions |
Information Management
Make better business decisions by
tapping into just the right information at the right time.
Accenture Information Management Services,
Business Intelligence,
Portals & Content Management |
Infrastructure Solutions
Data Center Rationalization,
End-User Computing,
Infrastructure Transformation,
Network Infrastructure,
Predictive Operations,
Security Solutions |
IT Strategy and
Transformation
Optimize
investments, transform capabilities and achieve greater business value from
IT. |
Microsoft Solutions
Deploy innovative business solutions on
the Microsoft .NET framework and server platforms.
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Mobile Technology Solutions
Capture the benefits of anytime,
anywhere information exchange though mobile technology.
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Radio Frequency Identification
Use tagging, tracking,
and sensing technologies to make ordinary objects intelligent and
interactive. |
SAP Solutions
Leverage your SAP investments and create
tangible value.
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Service-Oriented Architecture
Unleash the potential of
service-oriented architecture to simplify the business on the inside while
differentiating it on the outside. |
Systems Integration
Enable your employees to
access and manage data across information systems. |
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[3]Outsourcing
Application Outsourcing
Control costs and address
software issues that can get in the way of larger business strategies. |
Business Process Outsourcing
Outsource entire business functions such
as human resources, finance, accounting, and supply chain management.
Accenture Customer Contact,
Bundled Outsourcing,
Accenture Business Services for Utilities,
Accenture Data Management Services,
Accenture Finance Solutions,
Accenture HR Services,
Accenture Insurance Services,
Accenture Learning,
Accenture Procurement Solutions,
Navitaire |
Infrastructure Outsourcing
Use your company's IT
infrastructure to achieve dramatic results in business performance and
business transformation. |
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Role
CEO
Our research and insights help CEOs
focus taking their organizations to new levels of performance.
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CFO
Our research and insights
help CFOs use innovative tools to assess business performance. |
CIO - High Performance IT
Drawing on Accenture's own IT
experience, on our collaboration with clients, and on the results of our
global CIO research, our High Performance IT program creates a road map for
turning IT investments into performance enhancement catalysts.
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[5]By
Research Organization
Accenture Institute For High
Performance Business
This "think and act tank" conducts
breakthrough original research that helps businesses and governments achieve
and sustain high performance.
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Accenture Institute for Public
Service Value
Through original research and analysis,
the Accenture Institute for Public Service Value strives to advance the
debate on how to create value and high performance in the public sector.
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Accenture Technology Labs
At the intersection of
business and technology, combining deep technical and scientific expertise
with business know-how. |
Policy and Corporate Affairs
It is essential for
business leaders to understand the changing nature of organizations and
their relationship with the world around them. |

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Innovation
Through innovative thinking and cutting-edge research, Accenture
help their clients understand the landscape across several
industries.
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Outlook Article Index
Outlook Article Index
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To view Outlook Journal and Outlook Special Edition articles by
publication year, select the appropriate date below.
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2006, Number 2, Outlook Journal
The centerpiece of this issue is a three-part Special Report on
China. First, the report discusses this country's remarkable economic
story in the larger context of its recent history and current ambitions;
next, an exclusive in-depth interview with the veteran diplomat who
negotiated China's entry into the World Trade Organization offers keen,
candid insight into the opportunities and challenges of doing business
in the country. The final article in this section puts China's dramatic
IT transformation in a global perspective. |
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2006, Number 1, Outlook Journal
This issue features a ground-breaking article on one of the key
components of high-performance business: innovation. It also includes a
company profile of high performer Constellation Energy. There's a wealth
of valuable solutions-oriented information in this issue as
well—including articles on Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, important new
trends changing the nature of TV advertising, the critical importance of
reinventing IT workforces, the growing use of shared services in the
public sector and an Accenture engagement in the Netherlands that's
revolutionizing public transportation. |
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2005, Number 3, Outlook Journal
This issue includes a number of articles that focus on high-performance
business: a rigorous case study of Harrah’s Entertainment; industry
reports on consumer packaged goods and health care; and an exclusive
interview with Bart Becht, CEO of household products giant Reckitt
Benckiser. Other articles include the growing use of benchmarking in the
public sector; how IT consolidation can boost earnings per share; the
value-creating role that organization design plays in a successful
merger; and how predictive insight can be used to create competitive
advantage. |
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2005, Number 2, Outlook Journal
The subject of this issue’s cover story is distinctive capabilities, one
of the three basic building blocks of high performance, and how a
business can select and master a unique set of processes that will
define its success. A companion feature looks at high performance at the
enterprise and initiative levels and at the often unconventional
approaches taken by top organizations to continuously renew themselves.
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2005, Number 1, Outlook Journal
The centerpiece of this issue is a three-part report focusing on the
employee and high performance. The articles are based on the simple
premise that, as Accenture CEO Bill Green puts it in his letter to
readers, “The company with the best people wins.” |
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2004, Number 3, Outlook Journal
The latest issue of Outlook once again focuses on high-performance
business. Feature stories include performance anatomy, scale, investing
in people and getting maximum strategic value from IT. |
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2004, Number 2, Outlook Journal
This issue of Outlook showcases the first two of Accenture’s
high-performance business industry reports—on banking and utilities.
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2004, Special Edition: Breaking Away
The critical interplay of information, technology and value is the
subject of this Outlook Special Edition, which is the outgrowth of more
than six months of research at Accenture. |
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2004, Number 1, Outlook Journal
This issue, with a special six-article report, showcases Accenture’s
research component which has been even more critical with the launch of
Accenture’s high-performance business initiative. |
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2003, Number 3, Outlook Journal
The lead article of this issue is part of a $25 million research and
thought leadership project that will, over the next 12 to 18 months,
explore and document the characteristics of high-performance business.
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2003, Number 2, Outlook Journal
In this issue’s cover story, authors explore the new strategies, tools
and infrastructure requirements associated with service management, as
well as the wider benefits. |
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2003, Number 1, Outlook Journal
This issue focuses on how ideas should be put to work to make
organizations more innovative, effective and efficient, an exercise that
goes to the heart of what Accenture does in partnership with its
clients. |
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2002, Special Edition: Reality Online
This issue represents the latest thinking of the Labs’ leadership team,
which is headed by Glover Ferguson. To develop their vision, Ferguson
and his colleagues have looked out roughly five years. |
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2002, Number 2, Outlook Journal
Each article in this issue addresses a different subject; one looks at
the customer, another at the supply chain, the third at enterprise
solutions. There is both a need and an opportunity today for large-scale
transformation in all of these functional areas—and in most industries
this transformation can generate significant value. |
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2002, Number 1, Outlook Journal
This issue of Outlook includes a special three-part report on how
companies can best leverage the true talents within their people. |
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2001, Special Edition: Partners in Change
This Outlook Special Edition examines how some companies are taking
outsourcing to an entirely new level, which we at Accenture call
business transformation outsourcing. |
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2001, Special Edition: Brave New World: Eight Steps to a Winning Startup
This Outlook Special Edition shares the results of more than a year’s
research conducted to determine what it takes to succeed in today’s new
venture environment. |
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2001, Number 2, Outlook Journal
In this issue of Outlook, we explore some of the principles that have
been vital to business for years and will remain relevant in the new
marketplace. For example, successful companies recognize the power of
creating a strong and market-relevant brand. |
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2001, Special Edition: No Pain, No Gain Solving the Riddle of
eOrganization
In this special edition, the fourth in Outlook's eSeries, we focus on
the experiences of established companies that have positioned themselves
successfully in the new economy. |
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2001, Number 1, Outlook Journal
One article uses the track records of eCommerce winners and losers to
provide a step-by-step approach to creating the right strategy for an
online presence. Another reviews 10 common mistakes—the authors call
them "traps"—that companies make when choosing a business model for the
new economy. |
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2000, Special Edition: Governance at eSpeed
This issue of Outlook Special Edition explores leadership as one of
three key aspects of effective governance in the new economy. |
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2000, Special Edition: The Information Edge
This second Special Edition eSeries is based on research by Accenture,
in partnership with the International Institute for Management
Development in Lausanne, Switzerland, to determine if effective
information use leads to better business performance. |
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2000, Number 2, Outlook Journal
This issue includes articles on eCommerce, customer relationship
management, and supply chain. |
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2000, Special Edition: Endless Shelf Space
In this Special Edition, authors argue persuasively that eCommerce is
being redefined by the Internet’s ability to house multiple approaches
to exchange on the same Web site – a phenomenon they have termed
“all-in-one markets”. |
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2000, Number 1, Outlook Journal
This issue includes articles on mergers & acquisitions, eCommerce, and
leadership. |
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1999, Special Edition: Dispelling the Myths of Alliances
Despite their critical strategic importance, corporate collaborations
often are ill-conceived and badly executed. A clearer understanding of
the new realities of alliance management will lead to greater success in
the future. |
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1999, Number 2, Outlook Journal
This issue features an article on how to maximize your return on
investment in Human Performance. |
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1999, Number 1, Outlook Journal
This issue features an article on what will it be like to do business in
Europe in 10 years. It provides three possible scenarios, based on
alternative views of the political, economic and social forces that are
reshaping the Continent. |
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Outlook Article Archive

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