Wednesday 19th Jul, 2017
By Fiona Czerniawska.
One of the things I’ve always liked about Accenture (and I like quite a lot of things about them) is its apparent capacity to reinvent itself on a fairly regular basis. ERP, outsourcing, offshoring: Accenture has often been the first mover, prepared to go out on a limb in the market, often, I suspect, at the cost of turmoil behind the scenes. It puts a strategic stake in the ground, then expects the organisation to catch up.
So what are we to make of its campaign around “new”?
Thursday 22nd Jun, 2017
By Fiona Czerniawska.
Consultants often talk about pain points, but it’s hard to find one that’s either more painful or more pointed than Diabetesville, the name given by the media to Cameron County, Texas, where almost a third of the population has Type II diabetes.
Tuesday 9th May, 2017
By Fiona Czerniawska.
Wavestone, in collaboration with Société Générale, has launched an initiative aimed at promoting innovation in the cybersecurity space, raising some interesting questions about the role of innovation, not just in the very fast-moving, high-tech cybersecurity market, but in consulting more broadly.
Clients think innovation is important: in fact, it’s the quality they consider most important in a consulting firm, according to our research. At the same time, they often struggle to define what it means to be innovative and fully admit that they can’t point to individual consulting firms that are generally more innovative than others. Individual consultants, and sometimes entire project teams are recognised as taking an innovative approach, but clients remain sceptical of the extent to which this translates to an innovative culture across the firm as a whole.
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