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Date: Wednesday, 18 February, 2009, 1:36 PM
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Featured ArticleThe Emerging Face of Global M&A
Mergers and acquisitions, often emanating from or involving emerging markets, are common in today’s global economy. Corporate leaders from developed and developing countries need to understand the implications of this shift. Labor and pricing strategies, and the very nature of competition and deal-making, could all be subject to rapid change.
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Research & Insights
Consumer Goods and Services/Innovation and Growth:
Elevating New Product Development to Achieve High Performance
Broadly speaking, high performance is associated with companies that continually outpace competitors. In new product development, high performers trump competitors by introducing more new products, bringing them to market faster and generating more new-product revenue. Accenture looks closely at how they do it.
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Customer Relationship Management:
Increasing Attention to Customer Retention
In today’s economic climate, customer centricity is essential. Companies practice customer centricity in many ways; however the most important right now might be innovative customer-retention programs. Rewarding loyalty, understanding and meeting customer expectations and creating differentiated experiences that build trust are all key to keeping customers.
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Energy:
Boosting the Energy
Industry’s IT Power
For energy companies, the power to globalize, innovate and compete comes, more than ever, from information technology. Given this reality, what issues should rise to the top of a CIO’s to-do list? To find out, Accenture combined primary and secondary research initiatives, studied new technologies and interviewed industry insiders.
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Insurance/Business Process Outsourcing:
Increasing Outsourcing Opportunities for
Insurers
Many insurers have taken advantage of business process outsourcing (BPO) to reduce operational costs, improve process quality and accelerate speed to market. But BPO has the potential to contribute significantly to performance in another, often overlooked, way: by significantly improving workforce effectiveness and efficiency.
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IT Strategy and Transformation/Talent Management:
Does Your Company Have an IT Generation Gap?
Younger workers are usually exceptionally tech savvy. However, their respect for technology security, formality and propriety may still be gelling, and this irreverence has potentially disastrous implications for their employers. An Accenture research team recently made some important discoveries about the workforce generation gap.
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Services
Health Payers:
Motivating Health Payer Sales Forces
The right motivational tools and incentives can raise sales performance significantly, even in the health payer sector, which is known for complex interdependencies, widely diversified products and intricate sales processes. The catalyst could be Accenture’s incentive compensation management approach, a process-led solution customized to each payer’s specific needs.
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Podcasts
Corporate Strategy/Enterprise Performance Management:
Moving Up in a Down Economy
Timidity is the all too frequent response to an economic downturn. Speculation slows. Lending lags. Development is delayed. However, as podcast host Paul Bushet explains, “a sure way to ensure continued pain is through inaction.” In this
podcast he offers actionable ideas for moving forward instead of pulling back.
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IT Strategy and Transformation/Systems Integration:
IT Disaster: It's Not a Matter of If—It's a Matter of When
Most companies are wholly reliant on IT. But with skyrocketing complexity, skills shortages and strained legacy systems, the chances of an IT calamity are alarmingly high. CIO magazine publisher Bob Melk and Accenture’s Gil Brodnitz sound a wakeup call: Standard
backup policies and redundant systems are simply not enough.
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Interests:Business Process Outsourcing, Change Management, Corporate Strategy, CRM, Enterprise Performance Management, Finance Management, HR Management, Information Management, Infrastructure Solutions, IT Outsourcing, IT Strategy and Transformation,Mergers and Acquisitions, Organization Strategy, Supply Chain Management, System Integration, Technology Vision and Innovation, Aerospace and Defense, Sustainability
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