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Papers by Company: Accenture

Connecting the Dots: Linking Enterprise Learning to High Performance - Connecting the right dots in the right order will transform your learning department from a cost center to a value-generating one. Learn how. - January 2008

Control: Getting It and Keeping It in BPO - For many executives, the greatest challenge of business process outsourcing (BPO) is not operational but managerial. In our research, based on 30 in-depth interviews with senior executives who steer BPO relationships for their organizations, we make three ... - April 2004

Driving High Performance Mission-critical Job Famlies - Investments in enterprise learning show up in positive business results. That insight was confirmed by our 2005 study, "The Rise of the High Performance Learning Organization." But what are the particular approaches and tactics that high-performance busine... - October 2006

Driving High-Performance Outsourcing: Best Practices from the Masters - How do you get the most from your next outsourcing arrangement? One sure way is to borrow best practices from the masters, companies that have been outsourcing successfully for years. A new global survey of companies with deep experience in outsourcing con... - July 2004

Enabling High Performance through Outsourcing: Experts Share Lessons Learned - Executives today embrace outsourcing as a mainstream management strategy for achieving performance improvements and productivity gains. Far from a one-shot quick fix or financial trick, outsourcing plays a pivotal role in optimizing business processes, exp... - November 2005

Gaining Control Through Business Process Outsourcing: Executive Discussion Forum - Interest in outsourcing as a tool for control is intensifying, according to results from a survey conducted by Accenture of executives in more than 1,000 consumer goods, manufacturing and service organizations. Complementing this research, senior ex... - June 2004

High Performance Outsourcing: Gaining Control through Outsourcing in the Manufacturing and Consumer Industries - The benefits of outsourcing reach far beyond the well-known advantages of reduced costs and increased efficiency. Outsourcing is being embraced for the ability it gives executives to predict business results and support strategic planning. - April 2004

High Performance in Human Resources: Outsourcing gives companies more control (not less) to improve HR and enable high performance - It runs counter to our usual way of thinking: outsourcing operational management of HR processes through outsourcing actually increases your control over those same processes. By outsourcing with the right partner, organizations can not only lower their co... - May 2006

Improving Business Performance: Outsourcing Finance & Accounting in the Manufacturing & Consumer Industries - A recent global survey conducted for Accenture by the Economist Intelligence Unit shows manufacturing and consumer industries are primed for outsourcing growth. The study also reveals what respondents point to as the most important factor in achievi... - May 2004

Modern Industrialization: Re-defining IT infrastructure to achieve high performance - Where is IT in executive committee strategy discussions today? Is the conversation about total cost of ownership and data center uptimes, or is the focus on how well IT is enabling strategic business expansions, expediting new product rollouts, rapidly int... - October 2007

Operational excellence: The new force driving high performance through outsourcing - This paper discusses how operational excellence is essential to driving greater business value through outsourcing. - November 2007

Outsourcing Finance and Accounting Leads to High Performance - What constitutes a high-performance finance function? An Accenture-commissioned study demonstrates how outsourcing routine financial transactions makes the process more strategic. - August 2004

Outsourcing and procurement mastery: How procurement masters leverage outsourcing on the path to high performance - Ten percent of worldwide companies outperform their peers because they do things differently. Learn how to achieve procurement mastery. - January 2008

Outsourcing: Letting Go to Gain Control - Outsourcing, seen by some as a relinquishment of control over corporate activities, can provide distinct advantages to a company. Christian Marchetti, Managing Director, Accenture HR Services, and Alex Wilson, Group HR Director, BT, examine the role of out... - October 2006

Profit Recovery and Finance & Accounting Outsourcing - Including profit recovery services in your F&A outsourcing relationship can deliver additional value and, in many instances, offset a large percentage of the costs associated with the transition phase ofoutsourcing. - January 2008

You're Offshoring. Now What? - Conventional offshoring of applications can take you only so far. It can decrease your costs, but it can't increase your power. The time is right to explore new ways to achieve more value from your business applications. - November 2007

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