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By Industry

Aerospace and Defense Commercial Manufacturers, Defense Contractors
 
      Airline                     National Carriers, International Carriers, Airports... Automotive             Original Equipment Makers (OEMs), Automotive Suppliers.
 
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…
 
Energy                 Upstream, Downstream
Financial Services  Banking, Capital Markets, Insurance
 
Forest Products   Lumber, Pulp, Papermaking...
 
Freight and Logistics Parcel Delivery, Air Cargo, Trucking and Shipping Fleets…
 
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...
 
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...
 
Travel                         Hotels Chains, Car Rental Companies, Casinos...
 
Utilities                    Electric, Gas, Water...

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By 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.
 
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.
 
      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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
Mobile Technology Solutions
Capture the benefits of anytime, anywhere information exchange though mobile technology.
 
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.
 
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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[4]By Role

CEO
Our research and insights help CEOs focus taking their organizations to new levels of performance.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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

To view Outlook Journal and Outlook Special Edition articles by publication year, select the appropriate date below.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.”

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

2000, Number 2, Outlook Journal
This issue includes articles on eCommerce, customer relationship management, and supply chain.

 

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”.

 

2000, Number 1, Outlook Journal
This issue includes articles on mergers & acquisitions, eCommerce, and leadership.

 

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.

 

1999, Number 2, Outlook Journal
This issue features an article on how to maximize your return on investment in Human Performance.

 

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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